Posted on 07/21/2004 4:48:33 PM PDT by perfect stranger
On the Bush appeal. I have bought a bunch of stuff. I have really been getting a kick out of the shirt, hats, and stuff that is out on the web.
I recently saw a really cool t-shirt and have, sort of, "adopted" the shirts logo (below). I bought one of these, thought it was pretty cool.
Link: Bush 3:16 T-Shirts
I also saw a t-shirt and the logo was posted by another FREEPER. It said "10 out of 10 terrorists recommend John Kerry" (or something like that). As soon as I find that one again, I'm picking that one up.
Another candidate liberals told us was a disaster for the party was Ronald Wilson Reagan. In 1976, Newsweek's Hal Bruno said Republican "party loyalists" feared that Reagan would produce "a Goldwater-style debacle from which there is no comeback." Though the "Republican right wing" was gleeful at the prospect of a real conservative like Reagan purifying the party, Bruno wrote, "it could be a purification indistinguishable from suicide."
In polls of the Democratic and Republican National Committees taken by U.S. News and World Report in early 1980, Democrats overwhelmingly claimed to believe George Herbert Walker Bush was a more formidable candidate than Reagan. "We HOPE they'll run Reagan," liberals said.
He not only never lost a general election, Reagan also never won by less than a landslide margin. Reagan's triumph was then promptly jettisoned by Mr. "Electable," who broke his "read my lips" pledge and unceremoniously ended the Republicans' 12-year control of the White House.
Other Republicans we've been told were a disaster for the party are Newt Gingrich who produced the jaws-of-life to tear Congress from the Democrats and Ken Starr who was responsible for the impeachment and utter humiliation of Bill Clinton.
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