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It’s 1980 all over again
The Washington Times ^ | November 9, 2016 | Donna Wiesner Keene

Posted on 11/09/2016 7:40:28 PM PST by kevcol

Even more than in 1980, the media this year was in the tank for the Democrats. That crazy, racist and fringe tea party movement had been put in its place, dismissed as consisting of little more than a bunch of elderly ignoramuses not even worth mentioning as everyone prepared to coronate Mrs. Clinton. Less idealistic about how long it would take to change the country, tea party activists had gone to work, joining with others who distrusted pollsters and do not answer surveys.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1980; 2016elections; reagan; trump

1 posted on 11/09/2016 7:40:28 PM PST by kevcol
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To: kevcol

Pat CAddell said Sunday that it might turn out to be 1980. He was right.

Right down to the re-use of President Reagan’s slogan.


2 posted on 11/09/2016 7:42:35 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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Jimmy Carter must be having flashbacks.


3 posted on 11/09/2016 7:43:39 PM PST by HerrBlucher (For the sake of His sorrowful passion have mercy on us and on the whole world.)
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To: kevcol

Those who don’t learn from history must repeat it. We didn’t learn.


4 posted on 11/09/2016 7:45:05 PM PST by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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To: HerrBlucher

I remember 1980 well. I was 30 at the time. Glad to see it happen again.


5 posted on 11/09/2016 7:45:40 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: kevcol

its 1980 again, minus the giant killer rabbit that almost ate Jimmy Carter


6 posted on 11/09/2016 7:46:01 PM PST by Pence_Dispenser
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7 posted on 11/09/2016 7:49:45 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: kevcol

I distinctly remember there was the air traffic controller strike early on in Reagan’s first term. Reagan used that incident to set the tone that he was not going to put up with crap. I have no idea if these demonstrations and riots we have now will extend into next year but if they do I predict Trump will send them a message pretty fast.


8 posted on 11/09/2016 7:51:03 PM PST by plain talk
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I was just telling my 15 year old son the similarities are striking. We are both 15, we are taking over from a complete wuss with an economy in shambles, and everyone thinks our President elect is a war mongering nut job that no one thougt would ever win a week before.


9 posted on 11/09/2016 7:52:19 PM PST by MattinNJ (It's over Johnny. The America you knew is gone. Denial serves no purpose.)
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To: kevcol

2016, 1980 and 1968 were years of the Monkey, riots is the daily menu in those years, or a war such as 1944, another year of the Monkey.

Its an uncontrollable urge many brainless social idiots eagerly fall into. Think of it as a yearly type of lunar full moon type of lunacy.


10 posted on 11/09/2016 7:54:02 PM PST by Daniel Ramsey
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To: Inyo-Mono

It was a good year. SNL was actually funny in those days. And disco was on the way out....Good times.


11 posted on 11/09/2016 7:54:39 PM PST by HerrBlucher (For the sake of His sorrowful passion have mercy on us and on the whole world.)
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I think this is even bigger than 1980.While 1980 was earth shaking we were not being overrun by every third world parasite that we are today.Our identity as a Christain country was not under the assault then that it is today.This is a whole lot bigger because we were on the verge of losing our country to the globalists.No more bushes or clintoons.


12 posted on 11/09/2016 7:55:04 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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Yeah, in 1979 Steve Dahl blew Disco up. In 2016 Donald Trump blew the Democrat party up!


13 posted on 11/09/2016 8:08:15 PM PST by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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And disco was on the way out....Good times.

I remember when a DJ in Philly said that Dire Straits Sultans of Swing was the beginning of the end for disco. This was at that time, 1980 or '81.

Probably the only profound observation I've ever heard from a DJ.

14 posted on 11/09/2016 8:10:48 PM PST by Steely Tom ([VOTE FRAUD] == [CIVIL WAR])
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I listen to The Stever on WLS every day. He hasn’t lost a step.


15 posted on 11/09/2016 8:13:13 PM PST by JennysCool
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That was a huge record. I was listening to the radio out of L.A. when I first heard it, and the DJ there said much the same thing. Dire Straits and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers brought rock back.


16 posted on 11/09/2016 8:16:16 PM PST by JennysCool
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To: Inyo-Mono

I remember 1980 well. I was 30 at the time. Glad to see it happen again.


I was 30 as well. Stood in line more than an hour to vote for Reagan.


17 posted on 11/09/2016 9:57:58 PM PST by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: TBP

With both Houses loaded Republican, to boot.


18 posted on 11/10/2016 7:00:06 AM PST by oyez (Hell is a gun free zone.)
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