My first Alabama campaign was for Fob James...
Well, think about where we all were ten years ago. I voted for Love (who wouldn’t? ;->) and also McCain. Wish I had that one back.
In all the years I’ve been here I’ve been for one thing and then regretted it later, but that’s probably most of us.
George W. Bush.
The Invasion of Iraq.
McCain. But of course, Sarah. But then her family took her down.
The TEA Party.
Believing the Republicans that if they could JUST win back the House...
Mitt Romney.
Believing the Republicans if they could JUST win back the Senate...
Jeff Sessions.
Donald J. Trump.
So far, Trump has been the best by a mile.
Still, we all supported some idiots or idiotic decisions at one point or another.
Time will continue to tell.
Which of James’s campaigns ? He first got started back in ‘78 (you probably remember that he actually was a Republican initially, but because except for the 3 GOP incumbents in Congress at the time, you couldn’t get elected squat to statewide office, so he switched out of mere convenience to the Dems, before switching back 16 years later).
The only reason I voted for the GOP Presidential ticket in ‘08 was that I thought McQueeg would croak from the stress and we’d have Palin. Like you, I repudiated that vote. I warned at the time that the candidates were all horrible. ‘12 was the absolute nadir. I didn’t climb aboard that abortion, as I had fully repudiated the equally fraudulent Willard 6 years earlier. I voted for Congressman Virgil Goode on the 3rd party line for President.
Of course, some didn’t realize until later that the ‘08 and ‘12 elections weren’t legitimate at all. It was a pre-selected farce. The Democrats and the leftist RINO Establishment had already anointed Zero. They just had to make sure he drew no legitimate Conservative opponent who could actually stop him. McQueeg and Willard were behind sabotaging Trump in ‘16 to assist Hillary. Corrupt and treasonous to the core. Note neither ever went “nuclear” against Zero, yet they have never hesitated to do so against Conservatives. I hope both of them end up in prison (or shall I say the 4 of them, Hillary and Zero, too).
And finding out, too, that the Bush family was all a part of that same corrupt apparatus was sickening. But both pretty much paved the way for Bubba the Rapist in ‘92 and Zero in ‘08. I say that it was Reagan’s gravest error to have selected a Bush to be his running mate. If he had gone with a statesman like Paul Laxalt, we’d have gotten 16 years of Conservative GOP rule in the WH, perhaps longer. The Clintoons would never have gotten out of Arkansas and Zero might still be the nobody State Senator he was until 2004, pining away to be Mayor of Chicago or succeeding Bobby Rush in Congress.
Of course, our biggest mistake is putting faith in politicians at all. We’ll support President Trump as long as he does right, but there’s always the worry he might veer off the wrong way. We’re better off putting our faith in God.