On Reflection
I was mulling over the Iraq situation and the governments responses to it and came to an epiphany.
Party, party like it's 1975...du duh du du duh.
Vietnam collapsed when funding was cut in 1975. That, almost alone, set up the long distrust of most Americans when it comes to Democrats and the nations defense.
Now we're back to square one. When you think about it, Bush and the GOP are in a no-lose situation. Any compromise solution in funding works out to Bush's advantage. If Iraq is lost to insurgents, Bush points to Dem intransigence and the blame moves to them. If Iraq stabilizes Bush points to that and says he was right all along.
Regardless, the stage is set for another "X" years of the Democrats being perceived as pussies and not serious about national defense. Rightly or wrong.
Which steers right into '08. Americans do not elect known pussies as Presidents. They will elect softies as Congressmen or Senators, but not Presidents (do your own damn research, if you know how).
I could be way wrong...or not. The end of the funding bill debacle and what happens overseas will tell the tale. If I'm right ..... goodbye Dems. Oh fuck, lying ass Republicans. We don't win either way, do we?
8 comments:
Uh, Gonz: who won the 1976 Presidential Election?
Carter did. But that was 30+ years ago and there was a huge Watergate and Vietnam national hangover at work. Also, registered Dems greatly outnumbered registered Republicans at the time.
But your thesis here is that Democrats would lose, as they did after Vietnam.
Which they didn't.
Defense wasn't a priority at the time and there were the other factors I enumerated.
And then there's the Carter factor itself. As time goes on, history seems harsher and harsher on Carter's legacy.
"As time goes on, history seems harsher and harsher on Carter's legacy."
Cite?
Cite? That's my opinion.
However, there was also a study done a few years back where a balanced group of polisci professors ranked all ex-Presidents and Carter was pretty low-ranked....34th out of 40.
Here it is.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007243
This link has him as 30 out of 39, but also has him as 7th most underrated president.
Actually, your link buttresses my opinion that Carter's legacy is eroding.
Notice that the year on the Cornell paper is 2000? And it appears that the sampling was the same as the opinionjournal.com sampling. So his rating dropped from 30th out of 39 to 34th out of 40 in 5 years.
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