On Oct 23, 2008, at 6:33 PM, joseph noonan wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, John Thornton wrote:
>>
>> One more reason to doubt Palin is a logical choice for the next
>> round.
>> She will be associated with a huge humiliating defeat forever.
>
> Mondale was Carter's running mate in '80 and was top of the ticket
> in '84
But Carter did not lose by anything like a McNothing margin. Basically he lost only because a liberal third-party candidate, John Anderson, divided the anti-Reagan vote. Reagan's "popularity" was always nothing but a media fiction.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
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