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Posted on 04/10/2012 5:30:01 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Tuesday the choice facing voters this November will be as stark as in the milestone 1964 contest between Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater — one that ended up with one of the biggest Democratic landslides in history.
The president made his comments during a fundraising blitz in Florida, and right before his general election foe was essentially decided.
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This time the public will make the right choice and Barry O will be gone.
But who’s the biggest extremist candidate this time?...Obama! He gets the kewpee doll (and the L)
How old was this dipsh*t in 1964?
Let’s hope this election goes the way of his sports picks.
“This time the public will make the right choice and Barry O will be gone.”
I sure hope so or we as a nation are doomed to end up like the ex USSR. F the little socialist!
Gee, I wonder why he didn’t choose Carter/Reagan.
Democrat landslide?
I don’t think so.
But who’s the biggest extremist candidate this time?...Obama! He gets the kewpee doll (and the L)
But who’s the biggest extremist candidate this time?...Obama! He gets the kewpee doll (and the L)..
Right.
because of Santorums vanity, it will be a lose/lose either way. When/If Romney wins, he will just finish the job Obama started.
Those who destroyed all the acceptable alternatives (Perry, Cain, Gingrich) have only themselves to blame.
More like Kerry vs. Bush or even Dukakis vs. Bush
This time it’s RINO vs. extreme liberal.
Goldwater was conservative. Johnson was moderate as a candidate.
More like mitt could use the daisy ad against zero. Zero is very unstable.
And the loser's name was Barry so what's the point?
In a world where reality mattered, yes.
We don't live in one of those.
The only reason it was such a dumble blowout was because of JFK’s death.
Therer was nothing so inherently beloved in LBJ.
LBJ a "moderate"?
He was hardly a moderate. Nor was he a liberal. And certainly not a conservative.
Johnson was the quintessence of the conniving, utterly corrupt politician.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
Well, Obama is a lot more radical than Johnson. But Romney is a lot further to the left than Goldwater. Goldwater was actually a conservative.
Maybe the gap between them is equivalent. I’m still very unhappy with the choice we will have.
You would think that he would shy away from that match up, given the colossal disaster Johnson turned into.
Probably 3, and he is still acting that age.
Therer was nothing so inherently beloved in LBJ.
My mother, who turned 27 in '64 (2 days before I turned 3) certainly didn't think so. She voted for AuH2O. She had sense.
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LBJ was a snake. He was FDR’s favorite Congressman and was key to passing New Deal legislation. His Great Society screwed us all royally. Worst president in history, IMO.
Bad analogy. Almost no one thinks that things went well after LBJ’s election.
It was a child at the time but that’s my sense of it too. I would say Reagan-Mondale was the biggest ideological difference of my lifetime, bigger than Reagan-Carter, and definitely bigger than Obama-Romney.
I was too young to vote for Barry Goldwater in 1964 and so was Hillary Rodham.
Johnson had real power. Zero is just a puppet.
This observation is even more true today.
Perry, Cain and Gingrich have themselves to blame for the failure of their campaigns.
But why, you ask, is he here incessantly. The answer is easy. Despite the Dems attempting to fool themselves, and the MSM into believing that Obama has "alternate" paths to an electoral majority....there is absolutely NO, ZERO, ZILVCH, NADA..any way that he can win in November without winning Florida..and he's not gonna carry the state..
And as a bonus Floridians are gonna retire Nelson as well..
I saw a poll reporting Obama up 5-7 points on Romney in Florida. Is this true? I can’t believe it.
I voted for Barry Goldwater, he was my Senator, Mitt Romney can’t hold a candle to Barry Goldwater. Mitt doesn’t even have a favorable comparison to Goldy Barewater (old joke).
Obama has done more damage than LBJ, as hard to imagine as that is. Now Mitt and Nixon might be more like it. Mitt seems to have been trying as long as Tricky Dick.
Remember that old joke, “They told me if I voted for Barry Goldwater that the war in Vietnam would escalate and there would be riots in the cities. Well, I voted for him and that’s exactly what happened!”
I was too young to vote in 1964 but I do recall “AuH20” stickers and “Gold Water” canned soft drink.
Thanks for reminding me of that old but accurate joke. LOL
Barry Goldwater in 1964 predicted (spoke of) this moment. O and his ilk (ideaology) are now burying the last vestiges of the greatness of America as we knew it and Barry Goldwater forewarned.
So did my father...BUT I remember the campaign and the sense of voting for LBJ as a memorial to JFK. To continue his work as it were....
It was the first campaign I could actually remember well, tho I have snippets of memory of the Kennedy Nixon campaign.
Well it certainly has been mostly downhill since between leftist and leftist light....
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