Posted on 03/20/2023 7:08:46 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
John Connally was Gov of Texas when I was a kid and then Treasury Secretary for Nixon.
When he retired he did an interview and was asked what does the public not know about Washington DC. His reply was - if you knew what was going on you would go up there and hang everyone.
Independently verifiable documentary evidence or it didn’t happen. Prove it!
Yep. Carter was terrible by all accounts. Did Reagan convince Iran to keep “America held hostage” until after the election? Maybe. If not his team some deep state people who hated Carter. For sure some group did. Just my opinion.
Our electoral systems are too corrupted.
Actually Ted Kennedy was a factor in Jimmy’s downfall as well. They hated each other. And the lukewarm support of Kennedy toward’s Carter’s re-election, hurt Carter with the liberals.
Oh Please not this BS again
Yep. I was about to post such a comment and then read yours.
The lefties started screeching ‘foul play’ almost as soon as the election results were announced and reached ear-splitting heights when Iran released the hostages.
Cough cough cough BS
I lived through the Carter years as a thinking young adult in Maryland and Georgia. Many people in. Georgia “did not like the man” as a leader of anything.
That article is wishful fiction at best, delusional more likely.
Evidently the lefties shout “foul play” every time the WH changes from Dim to Republican (1981, 2001, 2017). But this one time in my lifetime we shouted “foul play” when it went from Republican to Dim (2021), and they call it an “insurrection”.
Would Jimmy Carter have won even without the hostage crisis ? I kind of doubt it .
That’s true, Carter was not the kind of Democrat the coastal elites wanted.
But I think the energy crisis that denied Americans the ability to travel and live the way they pleased, the hostage crisis that Carter fumbled, and watching a President who acted weak and apologetic was a real eye-opener for most Americans who saw for the first time the country was on the wrong track. Reagan was a correction as was Trump - we’ll see if it can happen again.
feh...
So it would seem, yes, so it would seem.
Who would have thought Billy would be the more successful brother?
I was working in Nova Scotia at the time. (CONFESSION: I voted for Carter.) A record store in the local mall was selling “Ronald Reagan End Of The World Tour” T-shirts.
Today, I wish I’d bought one, though it probably wouldn’t fit . . .
Carter was ike Biden. Craved for a long time to be President and when he finally made it found out the job requirements greatly surpassed his abilities.
Difference is, Carter was no puppet, which is more than I can say about Obama and Biden. They are controlled.
Yeah. The economy had nothing to do with his loss.
From late April 1980 until the following January, Carter was a lame duck.
That was pretty obvious considering that the hostages were released 1 minute after Reagan was sworn in.
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