Democrats usually win elections after Repubs screw up real bad...

kentuck

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Sun Jun-11-06 07:09 PM
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Democrats usually win elections after Repubs screw up real bad...

Otherwise, this country will continue to vote for Republicans and Big Business under normal circumstances. This is just my opinion, but it seems that for the last hundred years, with a couple of exceptions, Republicans win the presidential elections. John Kennedy in 1960 and arguably Harry Truman in 1948 won against the odds. But Nixon was not popular with a lot of Republicans and Truman was a "war" president.

But Roosevelt had taken over from Hoover in 1932 after the Americans were standing in soup lines and selling apples on the corners. The Depression was a hard lesson to learn. But Eisenhower got his Party back on track after Truman. Then Kennedy won after 8 years of the very boring Eisenhower Administration and Johnson succeeded him after the assassination and won on his own in 1964 because Goldwater had irreparably split his Party.

But Nixon got his groove back in 1968 but he did not end the war and he went over the edge with his criminal activities. He resigned and Gerald Ford took over the remainder of his term. Then Jimmy Carter won in 1976 when people were looking for a little more honesty in their presidents. But his reign was short-lived. Ronald Reagan defeated him in 1980, mostly by portraying him as weak on defense, because of the failed Iran hostage matter. Reagan won again in 1984 with his theatrics and shiny city on the hill bullshit.

Then George H. W. Bush won in 1998, mostly by personally attacking his opponent, but differently from how Reagan attacked Carter. Bush had his Willie Horton ads and he portrayed Dukakis as weak on crime. When Dukakis put on his helmet and stuck his head out of a tank like Snoopy, the ridicule was unbearable and the Republicans offered no mercy and the media assisted in every way they could.

But, Bush Sr put a scare in people with the huge deficits. With the mule-eared Perot preaching about the evils of "deficits", the people put Bill Clinton into office in 1992 and Clinton was able to get re-elected in 1996 after the one-armed bandit, Bob Dole, tumbled head first from a speaker's balcony.
But, Clinton paid handsomely for his victory. The Repubs made his life miserable for the next four years. No one ever made the connection, but that was probably what led to Clinton's heart problems, just as much as his cheeseburgers.

Then, the people put George Bush Jr into power in 2000 or he stole the election, if you prefer it in black and white. But, with expert handlers and propaganda and the ability to scare the living shit out of the American people, he was able to win re-election in 2004. But, we are now in one of those times where the Republicans have made such a mess but that the people will have no choice but to hire a Demcorat, at least for four years, to clean up the mess created by one of the most criminal and incompetent Administrations of the last century. And history repeats itself once again...