Gosh no...I was a simple door knocker and telephone artist. Truth is I was trying to atone for my idiocy 4 years earlier...wait for it.
I voted for Jimmy Carter.
Ok you can pick yourself up off the floor. Dumbass? Yup. Dumb 18 year old kid who had absolutely no idea what the issues were going into the election. Just knew that Ford seemed to be a bumbler. Of Course that was nonsense...just imagine the world had Jimmy not been elected. Then thank goofballs like me for electing him.
18 years old and voted for Jimmy Carter?
Oh hell, you can be forgiven for that. Carter fooled lots of people, from his absurd tome ‘Why Not The Best’ to his fake image of being a ‘new Southerner’ and who could forget his bald faced lie “I will nevah lie to you”?
Carter was (and remains) the political equivalent of a case of herpes, once infected the victim (America in this case) understands the risks of getting too intimate with someone they really don’t know. And the periodic outbreaks of blisters consistently drive that point home.
And I’ve only got a few years on you, my first vote was for Nixon/Agnew and I only wish the GOP ticket that year could have been Agnew/Nixon.
But that’s another story.