Posted on 12/30/2016 9:11:05 PM PST by Beave Meister
In September 1963, two months before his death, John F. Kennedy mused aloud to his old friend the journalist Charles Bartlett about the prospects for the 1968 presidential election, in which, he presciently worried, his brother Robert might run against Lyndon Johnson.
He gave me the feeling he wasnt pleased, Bartlett would recall years later. He wanted a record of his own. I sensed that he wanted the Kennedy administration to be Jack, and Bobby was going to turn it into a succession thing. Jack didnt want a dynasty, although I am sure his father would have wanted that.
By all accounts, Bill and Hillary Clinton never had any such qualms, and now their quarter-century project to build a mutual buy-one, get-one-free Clinton dynasty has ended in her defeat, and their joint departure from the center of the national political stage they had hoped to occupy for another eight years. Their exit amounts to a finale not just for themselves, but for Clintonism as a working political ideology and electoral strategy.
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Amen to that
gonna steal and post elsewhere. JimRob needs to design a larger tagline space for this kind of expression.
Will you still need me when I’m 64 and counting?
The writer and the various dudes and dudettes quoted exhibit serious denial. No wonder the loss caught them by surprise.
That Hillary pic: “The Glory Has Departed”.
Praise the Lord, we have been delivered.
...”I suspect that Politicos concept of Clintonism is grossly divorced from the reality of it.”...
Oh, Yes: The Jennifer Flowers story along with what was known about the Arkansas “mafia” would have done Bill Clinton’s candidacy in the first time, if third party candidate, Ross Perot, had stayed out of it. I think the voter turnout was in the 20-something percentage. Mr. Perot owns much of the blame for the decline of our nation since then, especially regarding the rise of corruption and the moral decline. Perot handed that election to Clinton.
I need to correct myself. The voter turnout in 1990 was 36.52%.
Buh bye coopid stunt, ya worthless biotch ...
Be patient. I sense a calm before the storm for them and the media.
Fake marriages are a lynchpin of modern liberalism which seeks to undermine societal norms.
Not so fast. Your post inspired me to read up.
The Quislings were executed and had no children...lest we forget Chelsea.
Bears repeating, over and over and over . . .
There is no doubt that Perot handed that election to Clintigula.
Another problem was that George Bush was a globalist New World Order type. Which the public didn’t want then, and doesn’t want now. NAFTA was pushed on Clinton, who IIRC didn’t really want it, but went along anyway. And once in when whole hog.
Since 1988 we have been governed by a series of fools who were beholden to some other ideology that did not put America first. With Bush it was the NWO, with Clinton it was themselves, Bush 2 back to the NWO, and Obozo, himself and islam first.
America needs Trump, may he do right by her.
I was one of his volunteers. I was 18, had a voter registration card still fresh with ink. Bush had been a disappointment and I NEVER trusted the Clintons. I threw myself into the Perot camp with abandon. So did a lot of other people. A lot of GOOD people and no doubt many of them voted for Trump last month.
Had Perot not gone wacky and dropped out, then returned to the race, he would have won. He had that kind of momentum going for him. And then he threw it away and it was IMPOSSIBLE to get it back.
Had he not withdrawn in the summer of '92, the past quarter century might have been a far better time. No Clintons. No attempt at a Bush "dynasty". No Obama.
Time has seen me change a lot of my beliefs. Many of which are incompatible with the Perot I supported in high school. But by and large, a Perot presidency would have left a far better country than what we ended up getting.
No kiddin !
The Democrats have lost touch with reality. Their brand is bankrupt.
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