Reagan administration reportedly offered job for candidate to step down...

[HipChick]

:shrug: when the Right do it,it's just biz as usual..

Reagan adviser reportedly offered CA senator a job with the administration "if he decided not to seek re-election." A November 25, 1981, Associated Press article (from the Nexis database) reported that President Reagan's political adviser Ed Rollins planned to offer former California Sen. S.I. Hayakawa a job in the administration in exchange for not seeking re-election

[Gman]

1. Good grief. It's called politics

that's one of the ways the game is played. BFD.

[mdmc]

2. another homage to raygun..

:mad:

[xchrom]

3. A super star dem prez should never do better than Reagan. Nt

[Rage for Order]

4. Well then, if Ronnie did it 30 years ago it must be okay

Seriously? That's your argument? Don't you think we should aim a little higher than behaving like Ronald Reagan?

[d_r]

5. Yeah

Reagan isn't exactly a yardstick to measure legality. But let's face it, this whole thing is political balderdash. It is what the republicans do, keep looking for ANYTHING to start screaming impeachment about. I mean really, karl freaking rove is going to say something is illegal? I think the point here isn't "reagan did it, it must be ok" as it is to say "nothing new here, the gop is just trying to stir up something like they always do." There's a real difference there.

Good freaking lord, he was offered a position on a freaking advisory board. That's how politics works, we all know it, but these assholes will tilt at anything that they can find. It's what they do.