kentuck
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Sun Feb-03-08 01:28 PM
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Who was the last Presidential nominee from the state of Arizona ?? |
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Was it Barry Goldwater (AuH2O) in 1964? And we all recall what happened in that election. Can we hope that the next nominee from Arizona faces the same fate?
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Sun Feb-03-08 01:32 PM
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I met him a few times when I lived in Phoenix: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Babbitt
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kentuck
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Sun Feb-03-08 01:37 PM
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3. He was a candidate but he wasn't the nominee. |
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Sun Feb-03-08 01:39 PM
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You're right; haven't had my morning IV of coffee yet!:D
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Sun Feb-03-08 01:41 PM
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7. Of course, McCain isn't the nominee yet.. |
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He will divide the Republican Party much like Barry Goldwater did, in my opinion, if he is the nominee?
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Sun Feb-03-08 01:33 PM
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2. You mean Democrats are going to win |
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and THEN we escalate a foreign war to appease the republicans and the Military Industrial Complex??? We'll institute a draft and have anti-war demonstrations that end in violence (bombings and shootings)?
I'd like to skip a repeat of the sixties.
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Sun Feb-03-08 01:38 PM
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4. You make an excellent point. |
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Thanks for the enlightenment.
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Sun Feb-03-08 01:41 PM
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6. It was Goldwater, signaling the rise of the hard right.... |
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Edited on Sun Feb-03-08 01:41 PM by flowomo
rising through Nixon and culminating in Reagan. It's been stuck there since. If the nominee is McCain he signals a turn in another direction, as many observers, especially Republicans, see him as a "moderate," or certainly as not the hardest of the hard righters. I see that as a good sign, if true -- because as long as that party is stuck in Romney-Huckabee gear, it will be impossible for either Clinton or Obama or any Democrat to effect the change so many desire.
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