LOL. I have a logon but haven't bothered to use it in quite some time. Checking it just now, 2006 was the last time I edited something using it. Some of my edits have bolded Ms in front of them??
'84 to run against Gore, the only one who could've beaten him
I don't get why the son of a guy who lost was such a strong candidate. That Ashe was a lousy RINO right? Like that Mayor of Fort Wayne Paul Helmke that ran against Evan Bayh in 1998. Now he heads up the Brady Bunch.
One might say Sauerbrey was the actual victor. Baltimore is the NOLA of MD.
Oh certainly. Any rat with a small margin is suspect.
Bawlamer
Is that how natives say it? Yikes.
4 years gives them time to accomplish something and not have to be in constant reelection mode.
I like the idea of 3 year terms. With a 1 year term...oh boy.
I think Biden and John Edwards are a smidge worse.
I meant on our side.
Eagleton of course caused political damage and was thus a bad pick.
I said, it would've been tough to decide at the time, but given that it was for control of the Senate
Too bad the ACU was founded a few decades earlier. I'd have voted for Lodge. Lyndon Johnson? Shudder.
Laurence Curtis,
I see he ran in 62 and lost the primary to George Lodge(still alive), dammit.
The Southern strategy hadn't been adopted at that point
Allegedly Nixon ran a 50 state race didn't he.
He should've focused more on the South imo.
I wrote to Gov. Bill Scranton of PA regarding 1964, and wow, he was STILL pissed about it in his letter to me over 30-some years later.
Stilled pissed he lost? Sure why not. Typical big headed fellow.
Nixon surely would've gone with liberal MA Gov. John Volpe instead (he wanted a non-WASP ethnic running mate).
I read somewhere that Rocky was allowed to name the VP pick. Sounds unlikely. Oh Tricky dick you stink. Another MA RINO?
Careful. Larry Kestenbaum doesn't keep up to date across the board on things
I noticed it omitted an office I knew who a guy had held. So did Markey hold an office? Or was he just a vet?
Got me. I don't know what you've edited. Most of my edits consist of just correcting factual mistakes, although I wrote a good chunk of the biography for a NC liberal Democrat Senator named Frank Graham.
"I don't get why the son of a guy who lost was such a strong candidate."
Because Gore, Jr. had been in Congress for 8 years by 1984 and was regarded as the strongest likely candidate for the Senate and with obvious built-in name recognition. Of the other House members, Marilyn Lloyd of Chattanooga, a 10-year veteran, seemed to express no interest, Bill Boner (my Congressman) also didn't take a run, Ed Jones was too old and Harold Ford, Sr. couldn't win a statewide race. The GOP at that point was very weak. We maxed out around 1972 and aside from Baker and Alexander, the other Republicans turned out to be weak or too green. I wish Robin Beard had stayed in the House another term and ran against Gore, it would've been a more equal footing. But after Beard's loss against Sasser in '82, he never ran for office again. I thought that was a shame.
"Is that how natives say it? Yikes."
Yup. Kinda like they say She-caaaa-go in yours. ;-P
"I like the idea of 3 year terms. With a 1 year term...oh boy."
They had 3-year terms for Governor in PA at one point.
"I meant on our side. Eagleton of course caused political damage and was thus a bad pick."
Actually, McGovern dumping Eagleton probably caused more damage. It may McGovern look bad. Besides, the GOP had a really horrific VP running mate at one point... Earl Warren in 1948. Had Dewey won, Warren would've been the odds-on choice to succeed him in 1956. Warren was an absolutely despicable individual.
"I see he ran in 62 and lost the primary to George Lodge(still alive), dammit."
Age was a big factor. Imagine Curtis at 69 facing off against Ted the Swimmer at 29.
"Allegedly Nixon ran a 50 state race didn't he. He should've focused more on the South imo."
In hindsight, yes, but some of those states were simply too anti-GOP for obvious reasons.
"Stilled pissed he lost? Sure why not. Typical big headed fellow."
Pissed he wasn't able to stop Goldwater's nomination. It would've been a pointless exercise since no Republican would win in '64 after the assassination.
"I read somewhere that Rocky was allowed to name the VP pick. Sounds unlikely. Oh Tricky dick you stink. Another MA RINO?"
Well, there were a ton of liberals in the GOP. A lot of them actually believed in it and thought it would work. We know now the answer to that.
"I noticed it omitted an office I knew who a guy had held. So did Markey hold an office? Or was he just a vet?"
As far as I know, he's not held any other office.