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To: Trump20162020

She would if she could.

But she’ll be almost 80 before she would get the opportunity again.


3 posted on 11/11/2018 3:17:02 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cults.)
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But she’ll be almost 80 before she would get the opportunity again.

Hillary is now 71 and Pres Trump is 72. - Tom

50 posted on 11/11/2018 3:43:01 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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Harold E. Stassen comes to mind.

Stassen had a spectacular early run in politics, climbing the rungs in his native Minnesota, until in 1937, he gained the governor’s office in Minnesota. He was re-elected in 1942, after helping Wendell Willkie in his bid for President in 1940, which resulted in resounding defeat as FDR won his third term. Stassen left his post as governor to serve in the US Navy in 1943,and served as Chief of Staff to Admiral William Halsey in the South Pacific. In 1945, Stassen was selected by FDR to go to San Francisco and help write the founding documents for the United Nations.

In 1948, Stassen made his first and most successful run for the Presidency on the Republican ticket, narrowly losing out to Thomas Dewey that year, only for Dewey to go down in defeat against Truman, after “winning” the election. Stassen came back in 1952, again to lose out this time to Eisenhower, who later appointed Stassen to a position in the American foreign aid administration.

Stassen then tried to get Richard Nixon replaced on the 1956 ticket with Eisenhower, with himself as the replacement. This, of course, put Stassen on the “enemies” list. In 1958, Stassen ran for governor of Pennsylvania, where he had been once the President of University of Pennsylvania on an interim basis after his defeat by Dewey in 1948, and he was a successful fund raiser, bring Penn back from the brink of financial disaster, but he was much negligent in other aspects of the office, and had left by 1952 in his run for the Presidency that year. The people of Pennsylvania had a long memory, and Stassen was roundly defeated.

Stassen’s political career following his 1958 defeat became somewhat of a long-standing public joke. Between 1948 and 1992, he campaigned nine times for the Republican Party nomination for President, never coming close to winning after 1948. He also ran for governor of Minnesota four times (winning his first two attempts), governor of Pennsylvania twice, the United States Senate twice, and mayor of Philadelphia once.


57 posted on 11/11/2018 3:48:21 PM PST by alloysteel (In my defense, I was left unsupervised.)
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"Nurse Ratched, prepare for a lobotomy."

61 posted on 11/11/2018 3:50:18 PM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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The new face of the Democratic Party is the same as the old face.... and the older face!


83 posted on 11/11/2018 4:23:34 PM PST by Lockbox
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To: Jonty30

She’s ‘47 born. She’ll be 73.


87 posted on 11/11/2018 4:34:13 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: Jonty30
Uh-huh.

There is no way the Democrats are going to support her a second time around. She is financially hobbling the Democrat party and is a liability every time she speaks. Much of her campaign last time was the news media campaigning for her in her absence due to her health issues. That won't work a second time around.

92 posted on 11/11/2018 4:57:45 PM PST by Widget Jr
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