Posted on 11/06/2012 3:14:18 PM PST by DManA
He said he had a plan to end the Vietnam War.
I was a senior in college in 1968. I signed up for delayed entry for Marine Corps OCS. I was hoping the war wouldn't end before I got there.
Mine was when Carter won. It was an experience, because for the first time I invested emotionally in a candidate (Ford) and yet he didn’t win.
It’s a strange feeling, and you wonder if the world is crazy. I remember there was a young Carterite outside the school but he got me on my way out. He was so excited about the man. I often wonder did he wake up and smell the coffee for 80, or did he have heartbreak when Carter got blasted.
I can proudly say I have NEVER voted for a single Democrat.
GHW Bush in 1988, by absentee ballot. Double yawn. In CT, the last time CT voted for a Republican.
RR in ‘80. Today made me feel the same way.
1976. Ford. I have voted for one Democrat and that was also in 1976 and that for a state office.
I have never, nor will ever vote for a Dem again.
Reagan ‘80. Supported Kemp in the primaries. Thank God Reagan won. First thing that made an impression was “I paid for this microphone!”
I was into Milton Friedman in high school, and was a staunch anti-communist. Why? My dad was from Poland. Most of his family was wiped out in the war. The rest suffered under communism. Still have communists on both sides of the family.
It’s always been life and death. The commie college poseurs are bleepin’ idiots who are playing footsie with the devil.
Schmidt/Anderson in 76
I voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976. I haven’t voted for a democrat since.
‘72 like you. I proudly voted for Nixon. He disappointed me, but he was miles better than McGovern would have been IMHO. Voted in a pizzeria and had to wait maybe 10 minutes. Had a slice of pepperoni pizza and a coke and went on with my day.
Anderson/Lucey - 1980.
Not Schmidt - Schmitz. Worked for George Wallace before that but was too young to vote anyway - stayed 3rd Party until RR came on the scene.
My first was in 1984. As a US Marine I proudly voted for Reagan! I’ve voted in eight presidential elections and if Romney wins I will be 4 out of 8.
I was too young to vote for JFK in 1960. After four years on active duty, I fell in with a gaggle of liberal college girls (one of whom I married), and ended up voting for LBJ, to my everlasting shame.
Reagan
Same here! George H.W. I wanted to kill Ross Perot. I could tell from my TV Clinton was a lying, womanizing scum. I was 18 and cried for my country.
I voted the first time in 1960, for Richard Milhouse Nixon, and in the following elections for the following candidates...
1964 Barry Goldwater (told me doing so, the war in Vietnam would get worse and taxes would go up...they were right)
1968 Richard Milhouse Nixon
1972 Richard Milhouse Nixon (his ‘high crimes & misdemenors’ were miniscule compared the OBummer’s.
1976 Gerald Ford
1980 Ronald Reagan (absentee ballot, was living in Northern Ireland)
1984 Ronald Reagan
1988 GHW Bush
1992 GHW Bush
1996 Bob Dole(had a customer in Arkansas who had a sign in his office - ‘Hope is not in Arkansas’)
2000 GW Bush
2004 GW Bush
2008 Juan McLame (holding my nose)
2012 Mitt Romney (did so proudly)
84 was fun. But in 80 it was pretty touch and go. “They” told us he didn’t have a chance, too conservative. Go ahead and vote for him but you’re throwing your vote away.
It was like a miracle when he won. Maybe it was.
Reagan, 1980 I had a smile on my face for 8 years.
Ronnie in ‘80. It was so good I did him again in ‘84.
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