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To: HighWheeler

Yep that is why I think Jeb's odds are way too low. And I would love it because the hard left would hate it so much.

All these people here saying America would not go for a dynasty clearly do not remember that America might well have elected any number of the Kennedy family given the chance. Dynasty was not a dirty word back then.


172 posted on 09/26/2004 4:57:58 PM PDT by JLS
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To: JLS
All these people here saying America would not go for a dynasty clearly do not remember that America might well have elected any number of the Kennedy family given the chance. Dynasty was not a dirty word back then.

Might have is not the same has has. In fact, only one Kennedy was elected president. RFK would probably have won the nomination in 1968, but I doubt if he could have won the general -- anti-war candidates don't win. Teddy took his shot in 1980 and didn't even come close.

We have a history of electing two presidents from the same family: the two Adamses; the two Harrisons; the two Roosevelts; now the two Bushes. I can't think of a case where we've elected three, nor of any case where family members were elected back-to-back.

178 posted on 09/26/2004 5:02:21 PM PDT by Brandon
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