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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on February 18, 2015, 07:50:32 PM
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MohRokTah (6,872 posts)
How many DUers are old enough to have experienced our bad losses?
How many DUers are old enough to remember the terrible defeat by Nixon in '68? This was the only time I recall a third party taking electoral votes.
Who is old enough to NEVER forget the horrible defeat of McGovern by Nixon in '72? That was a landslide that made me afraid to ever admit I was a Democrat in my local school.
Who remembers the beautiful win by the moderate peanut farmer in '76? Or his crushing defeat at the hands of a B-movie actor in '80 because of a challenge from the left in the primaries?
Who remembers what is possibly the worst landslide suffered by post-war Democrats in '84?
Or the horrible landslide against Dukakis in '88?
Then we won with Clinton, who took a different tack.
We nearly won with Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004 taking the same tack.
Then Barack Obama won in 2008 and 2012.
Are you starting to see the pattern and what many of us who are smart enough to remember electoral history see?
All of our horrible losses since World War II came from our most liberal candidates or abandonment by the left wing of the party, while all of our wins came from our most centrist candidates.
Politics is the art of the possible, and accepting somebody who is not the most liberal potential candidate at the presidential level can lead to the possible becoming what was impossible when they started their terms.
I give you marriage equality as an example of the impossible becoming possible.
Keep going left DUmmie... Don't you morons learn?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026241093
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Who remembers the beautiful win by the moderate peanut farmer in '76
I do. I am sure Carter is doing cartwheels that he will no longer be the worst president in modern times. You can rewrite the history books but you cannot rewrite what the people that lived thru it remember.
Sucks to be you.
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Carters beautiful win was because of a news media hatchet job on Ford, that was carried over
from Nixon. Had Ford not run, who knows?
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Carters beautiful win was because of a news media hatchet job on Ford, that was carried over
from Nixon. Had Ford not run, who knows?
Dems could have run a peanut brained idiot and beat whoever the GOP put up instead of Ford and they still would have won.
It takes a total loser like Carter to give us someone like Reagan, so 2016 gives me some hope.
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The election of 1984: sweetest election of all time.
Dennis Miller (paraphrase): Mondale only got 13 more electoral votes than I got, and I wasn't even running.
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Carters beautiful win was because of a news media hatchet job on Ford, that was carried over
from Nixon. Had Ford not run, who knows?
:cheersmate: :hi5:
Every democRAT win since and including Johnson, was a media driven hit job, or a complete cover up.
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Dummies actually believe that Carter and Obama are moderate.
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Dummies actually believe that Carter and Obama are moderate.
Carter and Barry are MORONS, not moderate.
(No offense to actual morons.)
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Dems could have run a peanut brained idiot and beat whoever the GOP put up instead of Ford and they still would have won.
It takes a total loser like Carter to give us someone like Reagan, so 2016 gives me some hope.
IIRC, Ford almost won despite his mistakes. If he had bailed out NYC, he might have pulled it off.
Everything happens for a reason.
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Then we won with Clinton, who took a different tack.
His win had more to do with Ross Perot running 3rd party and convincing enough idiots to vote for him...twice. :argh:
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His win had more to do with Ross Perot running 3rd party and convincing enough idiots to vote for him...twice. :argh:
My only consolation for Ross The Boss is Ralph Nader (in a later election) siphoned off enough lib votes to ensure a den didn't get elected.
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MohRokTah (6,872 posts)
How many DUers are old enough to have experienced our bad losses?
How many DUers are old enough to remember the terrible defeat by Nixon in '68? This was the only time I recall a third party taking electoral votes.
You mean you wanted the guy that got us into Vietnam to remain in office? Man, you moonbats and your convictions. Kinda like how now the war dead don't seem to mean a rat's ass to you fools anymore since Bush is gone. Hmm, just how long has it been since a flag-draped coffin was on the front page of a newspaper?
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The election of 1984: sweetest election of all time.
Dennis Miller (paraphrase): Mondale only got 13 more electoral votes than I got, and I wasn't even running.
I think he actually said that Mondale won one state, only one more than I did.
Not picking nits, ChuckJ, just remember the line.
And remember, that was long long before Mr. Miller turned towards our side of the spectrum.