Forget the South (not your typical post!)

[mcd1982]

"'Why are you going to Georgia?' After all, Dwight Eisenhower, who was the most popular man ever to be president or run for President in this century, he won by nine million votes in 1956, if he couldn't carry Georgia, why should any Republican candidate for the Presidency ever bother coming here? And I did a little checking in history and you know what I found? In the last quarter of a century there hasn't been a Democratic candidate for President that has bothered to campaign in the State of Georgia...I don't think it's a good thing, a good situation...What I believe is this: I think it's time for a change. I think it's time for for the Democratic cnadidates to quit taking Georgia and the South for granted...I think it's time for the Republican candidates to quit condeding the South to the Democratic candidates and to come down here, too..."

Richard Nixon, 1960

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Interesting quote, I think.

[mcd1982]

1. i should have kept reading...

another interesting quote:

"Because we can have the best social security program and the best health care program and the best job that anybody can possibly imagine and it isn't going to make any difference if we're not around to enjoy it..."

my, how Republicans don't change...

[quaoar]

2. I don't think that

Jimmy Carter took Georgia for granted.

[mcd1982]

3. well,

Jimmy Carter wasn't running for president in 1960.

[Eloriel]

4. One Democratic primary candidate did in 2003 -- and that would be

HOWARD DEAN!!!!

I think he was here several times, but I saw him -- and met him -- in August of 2003. He was wonderful. A bit of an aside, he did exactly what he said he was going to do, too. In part of his speech at the rally, he talked about race, and he did so in a way that took my breath away. I was so astonished by the simple beauty, wisdom and profundity of his remarks that my brain didn't capture any of them. All I was left with was the memory of my mouth-agape, delight and astonishment.

[mcd1982]

5. exactly!

I thought of Howard Dean immediately when I read VP Nixon's quote from the campaign trail.

There are times when I think poltical issues never change, never die...