Posted on 02/27/2023 9:46:59 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The titanic political contest in 1980 between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan is well known. It was a struggle between two very different men with two very different views of America and the world.
One believed in bigger government and one believed in smaller government. One believed we could work and coexist with the Soviets and one said he would "consign it to the ash heap of history." One believed in the individual and the other led a party whose platform said government was the principal creator of jobs.
During the campaign, Reagan often zinged Carter by saying, "Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose your job. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his job!" Carter gave as good, often attacking Reagan on his issues and his conservatism.
And, there were many personal clashes in the 1980 campaign, culminating in their historic debate in Cleveland one week before the election. At the time, President Carter was ahead in some polls and was surging, but Reagan’s calm demeanor and command of the facts won the day and the debate for the Californian.
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It was brilliant. Full of hope and courage. Made Carter seem stupid and frail.
Ron was ahead—until the election—from that very next day.
“”Watch the 60 Minutes interview with Carter from 1985. Carter was bitter to the core.””
There were a number of times during the Reagan years when Carter’s facade cracked and the ugliness showed.
Payback. Kennedy's greatest crime was beating Nixon in 1960, full of election fraud and illegalities. Nixon was too decent to challenge the results in court, as he should have. Would have changed history. Closest election since 1916. Kennedy won the reported national popular vote by 112,827, a margin of 0.17 percent.
the media was just stunned that Nixon won in 1972...and by such a huge landslide....after all, Nixon went into Cambodia...the Kent State killings...how he bombed the living shi# out of N. Vietnam.....he would disappear for days at a time...drove em crazy.
“Reagan would have helped rebuild the Russian economy, instead of exploiting it, as his successors did.”
Exactly—and Russia would be our ally—since we wouldn’t be trying to cram an agenda of perversion down their throats.
The Democrats have made most of the world our enemy—just because the Democrats are arrogant jerks.
I doubt a Rino President in office in 1981 to 1989 would have brought about the freeing of the hostages in Iran, the dissolution of the USSR, or the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Course, back in those days I was a dumb-a$$ democrat voter
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