Posted on 09/07/2007 10:54:26 PM PDT by LdSentinal
Blackmail?
Patrick McHenry, too.
Yes, but we need to make sure Kerrey doesn’t run... and if our primary gets too ugly, Omaha Mayor Fahey could get in. Personally, I don’t know why Gov. Heineman would run, he needs to stay put as he’s doing a great job as Governor. In fact, were he to get the nod, that could be used against him as it was when Ben Nelson lost in an upset to Hagel in ‘96.
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amen to that sentiment
It’s a pink elephant in the room thing.
Ditto!
It's truly amazing that there has NEVER been a "Democrat Party maverick", as far as the socialist "mainstream" news media is concerned.
You think McHenry is light in the loafers ? I thought he’s one of our bright stars from North Carolina.
Well, they considered Zell Miller to be that during his Senate service, but it wasn’t used as a positive, of course.
For those of you Freepers who were too young to be around, this is not a proper interpretation of history. The fact was that Lyndon Johnson indeed could not win the war. Not because the war was not winnable, which Nixon disproved, but because of a Secretary of Defense named Robert McNamara.
[McNamara was the "brilliant" person who saddled Ford Motor Co. with the Edsel. One of their all time marketing black eyes.]
McNamara was the idiot who laid down the policy of a measured response purposely NOT meeting the enemy with overwhelming force, but instead, escalating the conflict at the same pace as the enemy. He also accepted the notion that we should not take the fight to the North. He was a real disaster.
It was relatively late in Johnson's Presidency when the bombing of North Vietnam was allowed. Even then a lot of our energy was spent picking targets in order to minimize civilian casualties. Naturally, the North placed their most important resources as close to civilian areas as possible.
Nixon not only increased the bombing of the North, but was willing to follow the VC [Viet Cong] and the North regulars into Cambodia. Although, he took political flack for that from the same types that go after Bush.
Nixon put the most pressure against that North by blockading and mining their major harbor. This was not done to thwart the non-existent North Vietnamese Navy, it was done to "put it" to our "allies" who were shipping supplies to the North Vietnamese. Once the mines were in place, the non-communist shipping dried up and the North had to rely on overland supplies from China.
These are my recollections. Other old-timers are welcome to wade in and enhance and/or correct these ramblings.
Pop the champagne!
Nebraska, you can do better than this.
That’s because you’re ...... GAY.
Sad irony is that Robert Strange McNamara was the sole Republican in the Johnson Cabinet.
Are you drunk, dude ? Do I look like Stephen Stucker to you ?
And I have never heard McHenry likes his fudge packed.
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