Yahoo today attempted to rewrite history with an absurd article and argument that the reason Jimmy the teeth did not get re-elected in 1980 was because Reagan’s surrogate John Connally went to Iran to sabotage the release of the hostages. Of course, in this yahoo re-write of history, no mention of the failed rescue and the helicopter that crashed – and the incredible amount of bad press this fiasco did to Carter’s chances for re-election. But since I am old enough to remember the late 70s and the horrible economy – and the term Carter used – “malaise”, I am pretty sure that the reason Reagan trounced Carter in 1980 probably had more to do with the economy than the Iranian hostages. But no doubt – the election might have been closer if Carter actually succeeded in getting the hostages out. But given the fact that I still believe that there is one thing that is most important to win an American presidential election (when elections were essentially held the same day and were fair) – it is the Economy Stupid!
So, after a few woke folks read this garbage here is a sample comment I replied to:
Nick said: This is just like what Nixon did in 1968 when he secretly sabotaged the peace talks with North Vietnam right before the election so that it wouldn’t benefit Hubert Humphrey, the Democratic candidate. He secretly told the North Vietnamese to wait until he was elected because they would get a better deal with him. The ’68 election was a close one and it very well could have made the difference. There’s a long history of Republican treason in order to win elections.
BF response: JFK, LBJ with vile McNamara – started and kept the Viet Nam war going. I think it is not a stretch to believe that the real reason Kennedy was assassinated was because, unlike McNamara and the other stooges of the Military Industrial Complex, Kennedy was not going to escalate in Viet Nam, and funny, Kennedy gets assassinated and LBJ and McNamara kept sending our boys to die though they knew there was no way to win this war short of a tactical nuke. Nixon was in office in ’73 when it came to a sorry end…do not bother with facts, just make up your own – as Reagan once said with a slight change: It’s not that the “illiberal left” is ignorant, they just know so much that just isn’t so…looks like your re-write of history may work for your stoned fellow believers – but Humphrey was not a very good candidate – and outside of Marxist colleges – his bull didn’t sell. 301 electoral votes to 191 is NOT a close election. Nixon – 32 states v. 13and DC for Humphrey – and 5 for Wallace…Humphrey might have made it a bit closer if the racist Wallace did not cannibalize some states from Humphrey – it still would have been a landslide for Nixon…The Democrat Party is the party of slavery, party of segregation. Now it is the party of a new form of racism – calling everyone who is white that isn’t a Dem a “white supremacist”. Yes, Racism is in the DNA of the Democrat party.