Angle once said dictators can have “good ideas”

[RandySF]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/ralstons-flash/2010/nov/17/ensign-played-reid-angle-debate-prep-angle-once-sa/


----Late in the campaign, during a private meet and greet, Angle was asked about Social Security privatization. She had previously used Chile's Augusto Pinochet's experiment as an example, but had not used it since her staff shut her down. But that day, with no media there, saying her staff had warned her not to use it, she raised the Chile example again and added, "Sometimes dictators have good ideas." Her staff fretted the line would get out. It did not. Until now.

[mctpp]

1. haha

the conservs only want a fascist dictator not a liberal one.

[canetoad]

2. Once in a blue moon they can

and I point you to the history of the Kingdom of Bhutan as an example of an absolute monarchy that focussed on the well-being of the subjects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutan

The King was instumental in moving his country towards a constitutional democracy.

[NuclearDem]

3. Hitler invented the modern highway system

So yeah, very rarely they can have good ideas.

[verges]

4. And the VW.

[Toucano]

5. I won't put that one in the "good idea" pile.

Some will disagree, I'm sure.

[NuclearDem]

6. VW or the highway?

[Toucano]

7. The highway. n/t

[NuclearDem]

8. Well, fair enough

To each his own.