RF wrote:And remember Jimmy Carter in 1980. Almost unopposed in the Democratic Party - except for Ted Kennedy who was sunk by lousy timing and a certain motor car accident - and of course the British Labour Party in 2010.Karl Heidenreich wrote:Now that Cheetah died it seemed that the Democrat Party only have one alternative: Obama all the way.
The lesson is - if your leader is a liability, do you want your party on a suicide mission? Surely it would be better to have alternative Democrats in the early primaries to see whether Obama is any more electable than Johnson was in 1968.
..... Not to put too fine a point on the issue, but I would cast my vote for a garden gnome, even a cinder block, over 0bama.
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