Posted on 09/12/2010 11:56:20 AM PDT by bareford101
Another possibility: Reagan choosing GHWB for the second spot instead of a real conservative. But Jack French Kemp would have been no better in retrospect. An apologist he was!
Another idea: Everett Dirksen providing Republican votes for LBJ to break filibusters and then helping LBJ pick bombing targets in Vietnam.
1960-1961, when the cult of celebrity took over presidential elections with the false “Camelot” and easily deceived Americans.
Or 1974, when Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr., said he was “a Ford, not a Lincoln.” What a foolish interregnum he occupied, and I am sorry I cast my worthless vote for him.
Much of our failures has been caused by our own party trying foolishly and in failure to copy the opposition. It may have started with Willkie but it has never ended.
Adversity and hardship brings out the best in people, but properity brings out the worst. We owe Obama a ‘thank you’ for reminding mainstream America there is still evil in the world that wants desperately to destroy us.
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