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To: COBOL2Java

The reverend Jones was able to find hundreds of folks to join him in Guyana.

There are always a few flovorade drinkers in the crowd.


119 posted on 03/13/2016 10:44:10 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat
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To: RKBA Democrat
Whenever I read about Cruz's machiavellian rhetorical tactics, I'm reminded of another southern politician of an earlier age:

Did George Smathers really defeat Congressman Claude Pepper in a 1950 congressional election?

Campaign distortions often include certain amounts of truth but create false impressions. The classic example of this was a speech made by Rep. George Smathers of Florida in a Democratic primary campaign of 1950 for a U.S. Senate nomination in Florida.

Smathers told an audience of rural folk that incumbent Claude Pepper was "a known extrovert," practiced "celibacy" before marriage, practiced "nepotism" with his sister-in-law, "matriculated" with women in college, that his sister was "a thespian" and his brother "a practicing homo sapien."

Smathers carried the rustic vote and won the election.


126 posted on 03/13/2016 11:01:56 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Rubio: All the slipperiness of Bill Clinton, with none of the smarts.)
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