Posted on 07/15/2007 4:11:42 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
New York, Illinois, and California all going GOP. *Sigh*
Those were the days.
Contrast this speech codifying defeat with what Carter’s successor had to say less than two years later.
http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/speeches/first.asp
New York, Illinois, and California all going GOP. *Sigh*
Those were the days.
Those states didn’t vote FOR President Reagan. They voted AGAINST President Carter.
Wrong again. New York, Illinois, and California all going for Reagan!
And you posting that you'd vote for a liberal like Giuliani isn't gonna help the GOP regain power and advance conservatism.
If they would STOP screwing with the base of the Party, and listen to us and follow our directions which the great majority of us assert, why then a lot of those states would come back and would be in the Red State column.
Yeah, and the flipside of that is that Carter still got his best vote totals in the South. Carter only lost the region in 1980 because he got outvoted in the metropolitan areas. Look at a county map from 1980 and you’ll see I’m right.
I always say Jimmy Carter is the reason I’m on the right. We are not losers! thank you jimmy
1984 is here:
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/elections/maps/1984ec.gif
against mondale/ferarro?
Loser president from the party of losers.
I hate that worthless little self-absorbed peanut farmer with the Chiclet grin and the Nazi attitude!
):^(
Theres something else DC has failed us on.
We are still held hostage to oil.
We need to move the capital to a army base in the middle of Nebraska. DC can become a tourist attraction.
Make all the congresspeople live in sparse furnishings untill they get congress adjurned and go back home.
6 years is all they get and no generous pension of 150,000 plus.Make the Presidency one 6 year term.
One of Carter’s lines in the peroration jumped off the page:
“Whenever you have a chance, say something good about our country.”
Does the man ever read his own speeches?
As a 13 year old in 1979, one thing I remember clearly was the replacement of the lights on the Christmas Tree in Rockefeller Center in New York with reflectors. I had gone with my mother to the lighting of the tree several times as a kid but we didn’t go for the “unveiling” that year.
I already knew from the news that things were downcast in the nation and the world and that my father was fortunate to have purchased the house before the “misery index” really kicked in. But no lights on the tree, in New York City, well, that just seemed ridiculous to me.
When Ronald Reagan came to office I didn’t have to hear the news, I could see how upbeat everyone had become. Heck, Reagan even won Hudson County in New Jersey!
i did a word search and danged if i could find the words
nuclear/refinery/oil: new exploration
in all of jimmyland there....
did anybody else find any of these words in his plan?
Chicano? Is that someone from Chicago?
Don’t get me wrong! Thank God Ronald Reagan was elected!
I think the nation was in “Anyone but Jimmy” mode in 1980 (that’s the date on the map).
The voters actually voted for President Reagan in 84.
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I was a newlywed...starting out with an 16 % mortgage thanks to this goofy idiot...I remember old people lining up to seel their silver dollars for $18 a pop. The worst president in my life for sure....probably the worst president of all time.
People forget, but a Hillary presidency will be even worse....
nick
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