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To: Aquamarine

Sorry, don’t mean you personally. However the “He’s a crazy untested maniac who will blow us all up” meme was used in 1980 first by GHWB in the primaries and then by Carter in the general to no effect.


3,375 posted on 02/26/2016 12:19:27 PM PST by No.6
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To: No.6

Have had the thought that I won’t even get to say I told you so when this bully is proven to be the wrong man to lead this country because we will all be vaporized. Guess it won’t matter at that point unless we are unlucky enough to survive a nuclear blast.


3,378 posted on 02/26/2016 12:43:34 PM PST by Aquamarine (Vote Conservative.)
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To: No.6; Aquamarine; DoughtyOne; catnipman; Jane Long; All

“He’s a crazy untested mainiac who will blow us all up” was a meme before “meme” was invented. The earliest case I know of was “I’ll lob one into the men’s room of the Kremlin” by Goldwater back when he was running against Johnson. There could be earlier, but that is the first one I personally remember. And I think it did make an impact. This was not helped by other stories like his designing fire ants print men’s boxers for hostile wives to buy, or sending rodents in cylinders through the tube sending system in his department store to various women. [I wonder if the tube system is still in use anywhere?] That went over like Romney carrying his pooch on top of the car.


3,384 posted on 02/26/2016 12:58:02 PM PST by gleeaikin
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