You made this comment to yourself in comment# 6.
Goldwater made two huge mistakes.
He did not vet his VP candidate enough, so the dims brought up Engleton had been hospitalized with depression.
Don't you read links? Check the links in comment# 9. William E. Miller, who nobody heard of, ran with Barry Goldwater in 1964. "Democratic nominee George S. McGovern's presidential hopes virtually evaporated when it was revealed shortly after the party convention that his newly chosen vice presidential running mate, Missouri U.S. Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton, had been hospitalized on three occasions for depression and had undergone electroshock therapy."
Just FYI, Miller's last time in the public eye was as part of an old American Express ad campaign. "Do you know me? I ran for VP... nobody knows me. That's why I carry the American Express card."
That was one of the reasons I used to love American Express -- entertaining ads. But the GWOT taught me different. When I deployed it took me months to get to a place where I could pay my Amex bill -- on a Platinum card I'd had for 19 or so years, I owed 'em $245 when I took off. One of their snooty sales reps told me that Amex didn't care that I was kinda busy... "I listen to deadbeats like you all day." Mind you, that's after two decades without a late payment.
I paid the bill, and threw my card away. I don't accept American Express cards now, and never will. A couple years ago they were giving Jesse Jackson $2 million a year as part of his annual Wall Street shakedown, but they couldn't deal with a soldier who left one loose end -- and was calling, by the way, on a $1.50 a minute satphone from a place ending in "stan."
All the goodwill they built up with their Bill Miller ads and giving me decent service for a long time vanished when they put some anti-soldier lefty on the phone. Screw 'em.
d.o.l.
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