No matter what the topic of a political conversation, old B-1` Bob could manage to turn it to a non-stop dissertation on:
(1) The ballistics of the 30-06
(2) Performance of the BF-109
(3) WWII Trivia
(4) Montgomery vs. Rommel
etc. until one went quite mad.
We spent years trying to tell him about what illegal immigration was doing to California, only to be told how great "his" Mexicans were. "Wonderful cook," "Takes care of the kids as if they were her own," " Reliable Driver," "Beautiful Garden," ... then as he rambled on and on ...until HE was out of a job and finally observed Loretta Sanchez and the Birth of Post-Modern Election Fraud.
B-1 just missed Korea, but served as an AF pilot at the same level of government property damage and awkward yanking and banking as the Great McCain, who at least made it to war.
“until HE was out of a job and finally observed Loretta Sanchez and the Birth of Post-Modern Election Fraud”
And once Dornan got bit in the rump by the latino election fraud machine he yelled for help from his Republican buddies. A decent investigation might have exposed the fraud and maybe the Republicans could have kept that seat.
But guess what.... the RNC was already planning its grovel-to-latinos strategy and his pals at the RNC were only willing to do a half-assed investigation. They would rather lose the seat than ‘alienate the latino vote’ by exposing a crook like Loretta Sanchez.
This is from wikipedia’s entry on B1:
Dornan’s district had always been considered the only Orange County district where a Democrat had a realistic chance of winning. However, it became even more Democratic after the 1990 Census, when it absorbed a considerably larger number of Latino voters than he had previously represented. After failing to win the GOP presidential nomination in 1996, Dornan ran for reelection to the House against Loretta Sanchez, a Latina and former Republican who had switched parties and run as a Democrat. Dornan lost by 979 votes.
Following the narrow defeat, Dornan alleged that Sanchez’s winning margin was provided by illegal voting from non-U.S. citizens. A thirteen-month House of Representatives investigation ensued, during which Sanchez was seated provisionally, pending the inquiry.[19] A task force found 748 votes that had been cast illegally—624 from non-citizens in addition to 124 that had already been thrown out by California officials. This was not enough to overturn Sanchez’ margin of victory and she was allowed to keep her seat.[20] However, in consultation with the INS, the House committee identified as many as 4,700 questionable registration affidavits.[21] The probe was dropped before these affidavits could be investigated.