Posted on 08/20/2024 4:50:21 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Candidates have made plenty of blunders, quirky comments and plain old bad choices through the years
| Running for a second term in 1976, President Gerald Fold declared during a debate, “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration.” Since the Soviets did, in fact, occupy much of the region, moderator Max Frankel gave Ford a chance to recant, but Ford held firm.
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Joe Pedo plagiarized Khrushchev’s “We Will Bury You!” to Americans on his final State of the Union Show. His own party then tossed him out of office.
I remember when I first saw that on the news. He reminded me of a possum with a big grin on his face sticking it’s head out of a hole.
John F’n Kerry reporting for doody and is this where I get me a huntin license?
The Gary Hart thing was pretty bad, too.
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