Reply #14: did you read my post? [View All]

[Seneca]

I was talking STRICTLY in nominee mode. About who could/should be president. I was comparing Dean as a candidate to past candidates, especially UNsuccessful nominees. Where did I say McGovern or Stevenson were ever president? :D I said they were held up as people who 'should' have been. That is all. "Look what happened there" was a commentary on how they were trounced at the polls.

I held them up as examples of two people enthusiastically embraced by their base, and didn't even come close to winning nationally.

As far As Nixon, if you check a post on another thread ("Why won't the Repubs run somebody smart?" or something like that) I wrote even earlier than the one above, saying quite concretely that Nixon was the last smart Republican to win the presidency.

Please, if you are hungry to smack down my posts, read what I say first, and stay on topic. Nixon wasn't even the issue here. :-)