Posted on 10/19/2020 2:03:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
Dole should have vucking won. Damn Clinton. Republicans who didn’t expect to win should have tried harder, you just had midterm asskicking for our side. Bungled government shutdown and Perot didn’t help.
As for Cali feces and NY feces..... Granted I’m not a ‘tard but I don’t see the appeal. Cail is a disaster.
Especially if Noem were the VP choice. One election at a time, especially one with all the markings of it being stolen (along with some Election Day shenanigans and voter intimidation).+
“Both Biden and Harris were chosen by the DNC for the ticket because they were expendable for the inevitable DJT landslide in 2020.”
Same with Jimmy Carter (Ford) and Billy Jeff Blythe (Bush).
Oooops.
If Dole had won, there’d likely have been no 9/11. He’d have gotten Osama after the ‘98 U.S. Embassy bombings.
Well, aren’t you the Debbie Downer.
Kemp was a dud running mate.
Who would you have chosen?
The shortlist supposedly included Carrol Campbell, Engler, Connie Mack
Tommy Thompson and Dan Lundgren were also considered.
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When they started bussing, I lived 2 blocks from the school. They were going to bus me to one of the crappiest parts of town.
I was going to have to walk to school 1 1/2 hours early to catch a bus to take me to school and then the same to go home.
My parents said “no way” and removed us from school. Went to a private school the next 1 1.2 years till we moved out of town.
Within 15 years, most of the public schools were complete trash.
Kemp had a good heart, but he was not too good with common sense. He wanted the GOP to get in bed with Farrakhan. That would’ve been a fiasco.
Sen. Dole needed a younger, dynamic VP running mate. I think about it now and I’m not sure who would’ve truly fit the bill. Even at the time, I wasn’t sure who was the best person to choose. Had Gov. Pete Wilson been better as a pro-life candidate, he might’ve been a good pick. Except for Engler, Tommy Thompson and ex-Gov. Campbell, most of our Governors were not even 2 years into their terms, so that might’ve been too early to push them (a la Reagan in 1968). Maybe Phil Gramm for the “sex appeal.” ;-D
Phil Gramm was my candidate in 1996; he was both the most conservative candidate and the candidate that had raised the most money by December 1995. It was Gramm’s nomination to lose, and he promptly lost it, buying into a rogue Louisiana caucus cooked up by his supporters and boycotted by the other major candidates but of which Pat Buchanan was able to take advantage; Buchanan beat Gramm handily at the LA caucus, and then Gramm failed to finish in the top 3 in euther IA or NH, and he dropped out before the Super Tuesday contests that he had planned on being his coronation. In hindsight, given that Perot ran again and this time took votes almost exclusively from the GOP, it didn’t really matter whom we put up against Clinton. Had Perot not run, though, it would have been a very close race, with the winner being whoever carried .... wait for it ... Pennsylvania. In 2016, the Keystone State was more than just a nickname for PA, and it may well be that way again in 2020.
If Gramm wasn’t deft enough to navigate those early contests, he wouldn’t have been able to pull it off in the general, unfortunately. I was backing Dole simply on experience and his excellent military record and distinguished service.
Some FReepers subscribed to the notion that he deliberately threw the race (a la McQueeg and Willard), but I don’t. Alas, he was too much of a gentleman to run the vicious race required to defeat the evil Clintoons. A warning that you can’t run a Mr. Nice Guy campaign against truly evil Derp Staters.
Makes sense...
Nope. Just alert to demonrat fraud.
“Only three states still have no high school sports and CA is one of them. Who would vote for this?”
Who would vote for Biden?
Only someone out to harm the United States, in my estimation. The man is obviously non compos mentis. Even when he had his two-digit IQ, he was so crooked he couldn’t lie in bed straight.
“Bungled government shutdown and Perot didn’t help.”
Yes, but it was election fraud that put the demonrats over the top.
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