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To: mrsmel

Not even Reagan in ‘79 and ‘80 aroused the kind of mass hysteria that Palin has since she came on the scene (and the same can be said for Obama).

I’m from Alabama. There’s only one politician in Alabama history that has ever drawn rock star crowds. My father did business with his administrations. I also know that the energy he generated ended up making him a target and he was shot on May 15, 1972 while working the crowd.

And understand that he used that popular frenzy that he whipped up among the ordinary people of the state to rule it by fiat for 25 years. My father was with Wallace for the whole time. He grew to personally like him but the main reason was always that you were either in with Wallace or you were shut out of the process. On a single command Wallace could get the legislature to do whatever he wanted and in the 60s if you defied Wallace, you were soon portrayed as an “enemy of normal Alabamians”

Sorry if I don’t want to see that aspect of Wallacism repeated on the national level.


73 posted on 03/28/2010 8:58:55 AM PDT by AzaleaCity5691
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To: AzaleaCity5691

You are making too much sense - there is an element of people here that will never go along with that. You are going to be pilloried, called vile names and accused of being a democrat or worse.

Apparently, the author of this article - and the Freeper that posted it - has no dag-blamed business expressing his own opinions on the subject. This will not be tolerated!


85 posted on 03/28/2010 9:07:24 AM PDT by alicewonders
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