[dfwgator]

IIRC, on his deathbed Atwater basically apologized for what he did.

[tx_eggman]

He's dead Jim.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Desperate tomes called for desperate measures.

[Lurkinanloomin]

He’s been dead for 26 years.

[Solson]

Atwater would have been on the Trump train and the combo of he and Lewandowski would have been spectacular.

[Poison Pill]

Would Atwater be on the Trump train?

These questions are kind of silly. People are products of the time they live in. In the late 80s, early 90s Trump wouldn't have been on the Trump train.

[Hambone 1934]

Yes,he would have destroyed them .....I’ve said we need a lee Atwater and turns out his name is trump...

[se_ohio_buckwye]

He would have become a part of the system. One of the empty suits working to bring Trump down like Rove, Schmidt, ect...

power is intoxicating. its so dang easy for an outsider to become an insider after he enters the gate aslong as he follows the status quo..

[x]

I remember a couple of weeks ago, here on FR, one of you said if Atwater was still alive there would have been no Clintons or Obamas. They would have been eaten alive by Atwater's research and that Bush II would have won in bigger margins in '00 and '04.

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Sidney Blumenthal has speculated that, had Atwater lived, he would have run a stronger re-election campaign for Bush than the President's unsuccessful 1992 effort against Bill Clinton and Ross Perot. -- Wikipedia

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Sidney Blumenthal is a freeper?

Speculation is pointless. It's possible to imagine that the Bushes or McCain or Romney could have run a tougher, tighter, more aggressive campaign. That wouldn't necessarily have guaranteed them victory.

It's possible that the candidate who ran an Atwater-type campaign wouldn't have made it through the primaries. Campaign tactics move in cycles and what works in one election may not work in a later one.

[Theodore R.]

GHWB didn’t bother to attend Mr. Atwater’s funeral: went sailing instead, as I seem to recall.