Would you vote for the other party in the election if they had a better candidate?

selmaborntidefan said:

You've GOT to be talking about John Jenrette, the good ole boy from ABSCAM.

The day GW Bush lost me was in the aftermath of 9/11. He was on TV making a speech - hell, it may have been the one that night, pardon me, I was in a bit of shock like everyone - and he said something about how we were going to "rid the world of evil."

I'm sitting there listening to this and thinking, "This guy claims to be a Christian and if he is, he KNOWS FULL WELL that he can't do that, that evil isn't going to be removed until the very end of time." I thought that was a little bit too of a Messianic complex for me. And when he began pointing the sword towards Iraq, I suspected I knew what was up.

There's too many of them. I watched Falwell endorse a Klansman in 1980, too, at the same time Reagan was trying both to increase evangelical turnout and distance himself from a local Klan unit that had endorsed him (he threw it back and said "these folks don't understand modern America").

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Bazza said:

OK...for discussion purposes......what major TV stations/channels/networks should the folks be watching?

Notice I said major, because if you reply with anything other than a major network, you've made my point.

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seebell said:

In 1972 I voted for Nixon over McGovern, I was all for McGovern until he said he was behind Thomas Eagleton 1000% then fired him as a running mate the next day.

In 1980 I voted for Reagan over Jimmy Carter. The economy was terrible under Carter. The botched Iranian hostage rescue attempt was a factor as well.

In 1984 I voted Reagan over Mondale. Ronnie was a heck of a "Great Communicator".

In 1988 I voted H.W. Bush over Dukakis Hw was well qualified. Dukakis was a plastic man driving a tank.

As someone famous said " I didn't leave the Republican Party, the Party left me"

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Bamaro said:

Jimmy was not flying those helicopters.

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Bamaro said:

Jimmy was not flying those helicopters.

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selmaborntidefan said:

Of course, I can turn this around, too.

53 American hostages all came home alive, one early and the others in 1981.

242 Marines got blown up in a barracks in Lebanon with Mr Peace Through Strength making the biggest foreign policy blunder of his first term.

I think the easiest thing to do is say what Carter should have done.

The likelihood of succeeding at the helicopter raid was so low in the first place that not even the guys who were coordinating the rescue attempt gave it above a 10% chance of working anyway.

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RammerJammer14 said:

If I remember correctly, the failure of that rescue attempt was partly due to the absence of SOPs and training for such missions and it led directly to the creation of 120th SOAR who now specializes in difficult missions and flies SF and Rangers around today.

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RammerJammer14 said:

If I remember correctly, the failure of that rescue attempt was partly due to the absence of SOPs and training for such missions and it led directly to the creation of 120th SOAR who now specializes in difficult missions and flies SF and Rangers around today.

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