CNN Doubles-Down on Fake News with a Fake Film about Elian Gonzalez

Townhall.com ^ | August 26, 2017 | Humberto Fontova

[Impy]

Too bad he didn’t just run in the GOP primary.

Found this

http://www.soonerpolitics.org/editorial/2018-a-richardson-vs-lamb-race

[fieldmarshaldj]

He may have felt like the establishment wanted Largent and that it was a losing exercise.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I went to re-read the description for the race. Henry himself only barely defeated ex-Republican Vince Orza (Orza himself barely lost the GOP nomination for Governor in 1990 against Bill Price, who lost in an epic landslide to Democrat David Walters, 57-33%).

Michael Barone didn't even mention Largent's view on Elian. Largent, however, was attacked when he had gone on vacation prior to 9/11 and didn't learn about it until a few days later (which wasn't his fault, obviously) and he lost it with the media, cussing them out, when they attacked him for it.

The one issue that sank Largent, as I remember our friend Auh2orepublican discussing it, was cockfighting, whose outlawing was put on the ballot. Henry and many rural areas supported this vile and inhumane "sport", while Largent and most urban areas overwhelmingly opposed it. Largent lost most of the east and southern counties as a result (indeed, even with Richardson running, Henry managed to carry them with a majority instead of a plurality). Henry won 51 counties to Largent's 26.

[Libloather]

Rather Dan wouldn’t fake things - would he?

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

“getting silly?” I thought they were clowns already.

[GOPsterinMA]

(((shakin’ mah head)))

Truth!!!

[McGruff]

President Trump should undo all the things Obama did for Castro’s Cuba.

[kearnyirish2]

As a father with children from a foreign wife, I don’t know what the US government could have done differently. If my wife died on a trip overseas I couldn’t imagine that government trying to prevent me from getting my children back. There was no way around it, as far as I can see.

[NFHale]

“...since he called them “fake news” viewers wouldn’t believe their warnings about Harvey. ...”

Or anything else, for that matter... which is what they’re REALLY worried about.

[Impy]

Aye, I remember the cockfighting. The ban passed but it boosted rural turnout, to the aid of Henry. Part of a perfect storm.

And aside, they have the map for 1962, first GOP win, I hope you can see it if you aren't a subscriber.

Stark geographic divide.

[fieldmarshaldj]

It’s curious that Marshall County down on the TX border voted heavily for Republican Henry Bellmon with 61%, in contrast to all its Dem neighbors. Fallin got a subpar 52% there in 2014, down from 63% in 2010.

8 years earlier in 1954, Marshall voted a whopping 91% for the Democrat Gubernatorial candidate, Raymond Gary. Of course, Gary was a resident of Marshall County, so I’m sure that helped with his performance.

Indeed there was a stark divide in the state, the South and SE heavily Southern Democrat with the urban OKC and Tulsa and everything north of today’s I-40 voting like neighboring Republican Kansas. Quite frustrating for years for OK Republicans who could only elect 3 statewide races from statehood until Bellmon’s breakthrough in 1962, the Senate races of 1920, 1924 and 1942. Curiously, from the time it was made a territory in 1890 until 1907, the Republicans were able to win all but the 1896 race for U.S. Delegate (so federal Republicans believed they might have a shot at making it similar to Kansas, but beginning with the 1907 special statehood elections, that vanished). The 1920s presented a second opportunity, but with the Great Depression, OK became more like Texas and Arkansas. Had there been 2 year elections for Governor instead of 4 (unusual given the surrounding states at the time), the GOP probably would’ve elected some Governors (definitely in 1920, possibly 1924 and 1928) far sooner.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Castro threatened another Mariel boat lift over Elian. The first one cost Clinton the governorship. As POTUS he was not going to let it happen again. They’ll step on anyone who gets in the way-Gestapo tactics.