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Was Gary Hart Set Up?
The Atlantic ^ | Oct 18 | James Fallows

Posted on 10/19/2018 11:50:29 AM PDT by seanmerc

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To: seanmerc

Mr Happy made him do it.


41 posted on 10/19/2018 12:28:26 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (Grace and Dignity Will Win The Day)
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To: a fool in paradise

Known as ‘the b1tch set me up’ Democrat defense

LOL!


42 posted on 10/19/2018 12:28:26 PM PDT by samtheman (On to victory in November)
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To: Snickering Hound

I didn’t know side boob was a thing back then!


43 posted on 10/19/2018 12:29:25 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Artemis Webb

As said in the world of 20-30yo likely voters. “Wait wait? Who?”


44 posted on 10/19/2018 12:30:10 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Free)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

That was a
“When you’re horny and a person with a vagina and a vacuum cleaner walks into your study”
Moment.


45 posted on 10/19/2018 12:30:56 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: seanmerc

I wouldn’t be too worried; nobody reads the Atlantic, anyway. This much I do know, Gary Hart is NOT an honorable man. The husband of a close family friend was assigned to investigate him by the Security Division of the Pentagon. When he went to Harts office in Colorado, and asked the staff questions related to Donna Rice, Hart tried to destroy the man’s career, and almost succeeded, but by the grace of God, the man was exonerated, after 11 months. You don’t try to destroy someone’s career for asking questions about something that supposedly never happened.


46 posted on 10/19/2018 12:31:04 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Yaelle

... don’t you mean front hole and sucking machine?


47 posted on 10/19/2018 12:34:03 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (Grace and Dignity Will Win The Day)
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To: Stevenc131

In my younger days as a vet at college, I worked for Gary Hart campaign doing phone bank work for slices of pizza. Don’t even remember what he stood for. It was one of those born into being a democrat kinda thing. Can’t even remember if he won the primary back then in California. Oh well. I don’t regret it. Life is a learning process. When I found out he dropped out of the race, I thought...well there goes that. Would he have made a decent Democrat candidate...probably as well as any of the others I suppose. Pat Caddell I really like. A democrat through and through, but an old school America loving democrat. A Truman -Kennedy type of democrat.


48 posted on 10/19/2018 12:37:19 PM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: seanmerc

This is laughable.
He convicted himself with his own mouth.


49 posted on 10/19/2018 12:38:32 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Mr. K

Was that Rita Jenrette?


50 posted on 10/19/2018 12:39:20 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (EVERYONE IS UNIQUE! JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!)
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To: Artemis Webb

What difference, at this point, does it make?
—Hillary or should I call her President Hillary? Just cankles for short.


51 posted on 10/19/2018 12:41:39 PM PDT by frank ballenger ("End vote fraud,noncitizens & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: DannyTN
If he did it intentionally there had to be more than that to the story.

It was in the era when Kennedy and Dodd were hitting the bars in DC and groping waitresses and getting away with it.

The press wouldn't touch it.

Then Hart made the mistake of daring them to follow him when he was having an affair with a blonde model with a portfolio of pictures for them to run and move magazines.

And a boat named the 'Monkey Business' for Johnny Carson to joke about.

A perfect storm.

52 posted on 10/19/2018 12:44:27 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Artemis Webb

Pride arrogance.... Gary Hart


53 posted on 10/19/2018 12:48:41 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: seanmerc

Hmmm... witnesses dead or not talking.


54 posted on 10/19/2018 12:52:20 PM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

“We will overlook that it was brought up in the Primary by democrats.”

Well that’s completely different. Republicans are supposed to lose nobly in Presidential elections. Hence, no Obama birther, no Obama’s crazy pastor, no Obama cocaine, no Obama lying about his birthplace to get preferential treatment in college.


55 posted on 10/19/2018 12:55:34 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: seanmerc



Atwater leveraged the issue of race—a specialty for him—by means of the infamous “Willie Horton” TV ad. The explicit message of the commercial was that, as governor of Massachusetts, Dukakis had been soft on crime by offering furloughs to convicted murderers; Horton ran away while on furlough and then committed new felonies, including rape. The implicit message was the menace posed by hulking, scowling black men—like the Willie Horton who was shown in the commercial...


How about the menace posed by murderers and rapists?


Anyway, Hart was the last Democrat who will ever be in trouble for having a girl on his lap.


Lord knows I've had enough girls on my lap - sometimes my wife and her sister!


...And that's why I'll never be a politician.


It's no job for a man who has ever had any fun.


Alas, Democrats can't be trusted on a boat. Not with a ship's wheel, not with a screwdriver, not with standing or running rigging, not with a chart or a radio or an EPIRB, and certainly not with a woman. Always better to leave them on the dock. They can, after all, be trusted to put the dock carts away and go home to complain online about reproductive rights and the patriarchal hegemony.



56 posted on 10/19/2018 1:11:04 PM PDT by golux
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To: golux
They can, after all, be trusted to put the dock carts away

Really. You are an optimist. I live in DC and would never go that far.

57 posted on 10/19/2018 1:25:28 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: seanmerc

The GOP needs more Lee Atwaters.


58 posted on 10/19/2018 1:29:52 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

It was indeed. And that was not a very flattering picture of her. I still have her Playboy photoshoot somewhere in the basement archives. What a doll.


59 posted on 10/19/2018 1:37:54 PM PDT by burghguy
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To: Sans-Culotte

I don’t believe any of this. I grew up in Columbia SC with Lee Atwater. We went to rival high schools. He was a genius at political strategy. By the way Donna Rice attended the University of South Carolina, where she was a cheerleader. She was beautiful. Gary Hart was his own worst enemy.


60 posted on 10/19/2018 1:41:29 PM PDT by burghguy
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