After hearing Ronald Reagan inveighing against problems caused by the Democrats, Sam Donaldson asked Reagan, "Don't you bear any responsibility for that problem?""Yes," Reagan replied. "For many years I was a Democrat!"
Reagan said he didn't leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left him. If you are a JFK Democrat it's no miracle that you are voting for George W. Bush; IMHO no other president or presidential candidate in history was more like JFK than President Bush is.
Scoop Jackson could have been Secretary of Defense for anybody; the idea of John Kerry or anyone who can draw flies in a Democratic presidential primary as SecDef is a joke. The truth is that there have been only three Democratic SecDefs in the past half century
Arguably Aspen was the best of the bunch; he at least recognized his own incompetence and resigned.
- Robert S. "light at the end of the tunnel" McNamara
- Harold "Iranian hostage rescue" Brown and
- Les "Black Hawk Down" Aspen.
Robert S. "light at the end of the tunnel" McNamara first drove Ford Motor Company into the ground before he destroyed our Military.
By the way when he was CEO of FORD he demanded a "Car Count" of the previous day much like the "Body Count" he wanted in Viet Nam