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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica?

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To: virginijus poshkus who wrote (4836)2/6/1998 9:30:00 AM
From: Zoltan!  Read Replies (1) of 20981
 
>>one you forgot though was when Gerald Ford said that Poland

I don't regard that one as a gaff in the same sense - Jerky Ford believed that nonsense. Remember, it took him days to recant, and it was obvious that when it was done, it was done not because he believed he was wrong, but rather because of the political hit he was taking.

You know, Reagan actually got more votes than Jerky in the 1976 primaries (New Hampshire too), Jerky only got the nomination because the party establishment gave him all those non-primary delegates. Too bad, we would have been spared Jimmy "Hornblower" and the near-ruination of economy and all the foreign policy mistakes (Iran, Central America & Soviet appeasement) - amazingly enough, he barely beat Ford.(Polls showed Reagan beating Carter on election day - which Reagan would have easily done given his unparalleled record of electoral success).

The Cold War may also have been over four years earlier.
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