The '80 Campaign...
Steve opines: "For most of that year I was in a submarine and I got out of the Navy a week after the election."
You and Jimmy Carter have something in common: Both of you are Navy vets who served on board a submarine.
"Carter tried to blame it on some ill-defined national malaise, but everyone knew the malaise was actually that we were all ready for Carter to disappear."
It was actually Ted Kennedy who came up with the term "national malaise." Of course, when Kennedy came up with that term, he was running again Carter for the '80 Democrat nomination.
"All the pundits and party insiders kept telling us that Reagan was a nobody. He was unelectable. The country wouldn't turn over the solemn reigns of power to a B-movie actor."
Believe it or not, Carter feared Bush more than Reagan because everybody in the beltway thought Reagan was unelectable. Carter and his team were thrilled when Reagan won the '80 GOP nomination because they thought he would suffer the same fate as Goldwater did in '64.
"When they announced that Reagan had picked Bush, everyone knew that the country-clubbers had muscled the Reagan campaign into the deal. I always thought that was a mistake. I was right."
Reagan saved Bush's political career by picking him to be his VP... If Reagan didn't pick him, Bush was toast politically. Reagan's pick of Bush as VP set the stage for 12 years of a Bush in the White House.
"The GOP was still offering at least the hope of libertarianism. As well, there was still some drama surrounding the conventions. No one had been "anointed" by the time they rolled around, so the convention actually still had a little meaning."
The political historians say the last great convention we had was the 1976 GOP convention when the nomination wasn't decided until they counted the votes on the floor. That was good political theater between Pres. Ford and Reagan.
"It is very likely that Hillary will succeed to the throne in the Oval Office and there is no reason to believe she won't be there for eight years."
I don't see Hillary winning the presidency in '08. To be honest, I really don't see her being the Democrat nominee.
"Maybe we'll adopt the late Roman model and split the country between co-emperors. By then, the North American Union should be in place and negotiations for the Trans-American Union will be well underway. Maybe we'll have Northern and Southern emperors. That would certainly be cleaner that any dynasty-swapping arrangement."
Unless you want another Civil War in this country, let's not talk about splitting the country between north and south again. :-)
You and Jimmy Carter have something in common: Both of you are Navy vets who served on board a submarine.
"Carter tried to blame it on some ill-defined national malaise, but everyone knew the malaise was actually that we were all ready for Carter to disappear."
It was actually Ted Kennedy who came up with the term "national malaise." Of course, when Kennedy came up with that term, he was running again Carter for the '80 Democrat nomination.
"All the pundits and party insiders kept telling us that Reagan was a nobody. He was unelectable. The country wouldn't turn over the solemn reigns of power to a B-movie actor."
Believe it or not, Carter feared Bush more than Reagan because everybody in the beltway thought Reagan was unelectable. Carter and his team were thrilled when Reagan won the '80 GOP nomination because they thought he would suffer the same fate as Goldwater did in '64.
"When they announced that Reagan had picked Bush, everyone knew that the country-clubbers had muscled the Reagan campaign into the deal. I always thought that was a mistake. I was right."
Reagan saved Bush's political career by picking him to be his VP... If Reagan didn't pick him, Bush was toast politically. Reagan's pick of Bush as VP set the stage for 12 years of a Bush in the White House.
"The GOP was still offering at least the hope of libertarianism. As well, there was still some drama surrounding the conventions. No one had been "anointed" by the time they rolled around, so the convention actually still had a little meaning."
The political historians say the last great convention we had was the 1976 GOP convention when the nomination wasn't decided until they counted the votes on the floor. That was good political theater between Pres. Ford and Reagan.
"It is very likely that Hillary will succeed to the throne in the Oval Office and there is no reason to believe she won't be there for eight years."
I don't see Hillary winning the presidency in '08. To be honest, I really don't see her being the Democrat nominee.
"Maybe we'll adopt the late Roman model and split the country between co-emperors. By then, the North American Union should be in place and negotiations for the Trans-American Union will be well underway. Maybe we'll have Northern and Southern emperors. That would certainly be cleaner that any dynasty-swapping arrangement."
Unless you want another Civil War in this country, let's not talk about splitting the country between north and south again. :-)
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