[QUOTE=Frank]
I am not totally convinced that losing the race didn’t have a lot to do with making Al Gore the man he is today.
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Horseshit. It was his experience hosting Saturday Night Live. 
[QUOTE=Airman Doors, USAF]
Oh, come on. It was at least a little funny. You smirked. Admit it.
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Okay, I did smirk. You got me.
[QUOTE=What Exit?]
Okay, I did smirk. You got me.
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You must admit, anyone who can select their staff to such a degree that their speechwriter can come up with the nugget “nattering nabobs of negativism” can’t be all bad.
I’ll note that old Spiro was simply following tradition; he was in a string of three or four consecutive Maryland governors to get indicted.
And, since I’m on my third scotch and in the mood for a non sequiter, I’ll also note that it was in this neck of the woods that while hitch-hiking across Canada in the summer of 1972, that I saw on an outhouse wall the inscription,
“Don’t change Dicks in the middle of a screw.
Vote for Nixon in seventy-two.”
It’s probably bedtime for Bonzo here after that. Which forum is this again?
A lot of people talk about “winner takes all” elections but down in Texas they really mean it.
[QUOTE=Wilson]
John Nance Garner, FDR’s first vice president, always struck me as an interesting man, despite him being from Texas… in the House for close to three decades, including a stint as Speaker. Ran against FDR in the primaries in 1940, of course didn’t stand a chance.
Plus two years after beating Mariette Rheiner in the primaries for county judge, he married her. Imagine something like that happening today?
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You gotta remember that Cactus Jack was from West Texas at a time when that really meant something; you shouldn’t confuse West Texas then with Texas now. He would have been a good President.
Humphrey would have been a vast improvement over Tricky Dickie had he been elected in 1968 and Mondale would have certainly been better than Reagan had he been elected in 1984.
[QUOTE=Frank]
“Don’t change Dicks in the middle of a screw.
Vote for Nixon in seventy-two.”
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Seen on a 2004 Bush/Cheney bumper sticker:
“Don’t change horses mid-apocalypse!”
Richard M. Johnson is from my hometown. That’s good enough for me. And Aaron Burr tried to overthrow the government. That’s gotta count for something, right?
[QUOTE=Mayo Speaks!]
And Aaron Burr tried to overthrow the government. That’s gotta count for something, right?
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He was never convicted of it. Besides, what he did wasn’t really treason against the US, he just wanted to start his own country.