tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13930960.post113269204667740616..comments2023-11-05T02:42:05.343-05:00Comments on Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Nachos: Revisionist HistoryStudiodavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16784469805972410740noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13930960.post-1132717030089725612005-11-22T22:37:00.000-05:002005-11-22T22:37:00.000-05:00Tokyo Joe:Good point about the "Sore Loserman" ima...Tokyo Joe:<BR/><BR/>Good point about the "Sore Loserman" imagery that surrounded the Gore request for the recount. And, yes, the Republicans and the media trotted out the story about how Nixon nobly refused to contest the 1960 election, but there's one problem with that -- it simply wasn't true.<BR/><BR/>As described in brief <A HREF="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol26/vol26_iss10/2610_Nixon_Ungracious.html" REL="nofollow"><BR/>here</A>, Nixon and the RNC initiated recounts in eleven different states, sent campaign agents into eight states to conduct "field tests," and continued to maneuver to challenge the election right up to the point that Kennedy's victory was confirmed by the electoral college.Otto Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14051682366565874144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13930960.post-1132716694914423772005-11-22T22:31:00.000-05:002005-11-22T22:31:00.000-05:00Smitty: I think some people will be discouraged f...Smitty: <BR/><BR/>I think some people will be discouraged from voting in 2006, but they'll largely be Republican voters -- either libertarians in a furor over the GOP's spendthrift big government ways, the Religious Right folks who feel sold out for one reason or another, or general conservatives who are ashamed of what's going on in their name. <BR/><BR/>Independents love to rally around a "throw the bums out" theme, however, and this election should bring them out in droves. Bush is polling horribly among independents, too, so any of them that come out to the polls will move against the GOP.<BR/><BR/>And, needless to say, Democrats are going to be out in droves.Otto Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14051682366565874144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13930960.post-1132711405024463912005-11-22T21:03:00.000-05:002005-11-22T21:03:00.000-05:00Absolutely terrific post. Very well-said.His stat...Absolutely terrific post. Very well-said.<BR/><BR/>His statement is so....appropos to how the Bush camp says stuff: either they get caught in a bold faced lie, or they say something juuuuust outside the truth enough that they can cover their tracks with one of those "not what I meant" things. I mean...it's not even <I>good</I> spin.<BR/><BR/>I've been meaning to ask your (all of y'alls) opinion about something:<BR/><BR/>A few of us were nursing some Bell's Batch 7000 and discussing the upcoming 2006 elections. The impasse we reached is that some believed that the total sum of the past few months' worth of scandals in Washington would actually <I>discourage</I> people from voting. In other words, will people be so sick of the bullshit that they just throw up their hands and not vote at all, thinking that regardless of the options...we're screwed?Noahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345059376742159966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13930960.post-1132703460144880892005-11-22T18:51:00.000-05:002005-11-22T18:51:00.000-05:00Awesome post.Awesome post.Thrillhoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03082092153634900636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13930960.post-1132699481316034502005-11-22T17:44:00.000-05:002005-11-22T17:44:00.000-05:00Good one swa. Yeah, I came across that story today...Good one swa. <BR/><BR/>Yeah, I came across that story today, too. What complete bullshit. I just shake my head and wish we actually had a media and an opposition party when I read crap like that...Mr Furioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03781439243585972721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13930960.post-1132697321343744012005-11-22T17:08:00.000-05:002005-11-22T17:08:00.000-05:00Ha! Well said.Ha! Well said.Otto Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14051682366565874144noreply@blogger.com