Horseshit. It was his experience hosting Saturday Night Live. 
Okay, I did smirk. You got me.
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.
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.
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?
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.