I recall that in January 1980, Carter was leading Reagan in the polls 68 to 32. When Reagan won the nomination, the Carter team opened a bottle of champagne, because they were convinced that no one would ever vote for a former actor turned politician.
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“I recall that in January 1980, Carter was leading Reagan in the polls 68 to 32. When Reagan won the nomination, the Carter team opened a bottle of champagne, because they were convinced that no one would ever vote for a former actor turned politician.”
I recall that very well. But I also remember Reagan never talking about opening libel laws to intimidate opposition, never hearing Reagan talking about government paying for people’s health care, Reagan never praised the use of force by dictators against their citizens, never praised Planned Parenthood, used left wing talking points to push for government largess...
And, despite the hostile press, Reagan just smiled and spoke around them and didn’t go into baby hissy fits because they wrote nasty things about him
We have suffered through 7+ years of a president who is completely incompetent with an Leninist understanding of the world. Lenin was a Utopian communist. How bad can a fast talking real estate salesman be by comparison?
More to the point do we really want a harridan Marxist sucking us dry for 8 more years?
Where in the h-LL was Carter 4 years before when RR received a 45 minute plus standing ovation at the convention on live TV????