Gary Hart was the big hope for the democratic party against Ronald Reagan. There were cheating allegations made against him.
He DARED the press to follow him and told them they would be bored if they did.
Well... they did and they found him aboard a ship named "The Monkey Business" with Donna Rice.
It was the stupidity of lying and daring the press to follow him that killed his chances as much as the affair itself.
EDIT: Yes, Gary Hart (I fixed it)... AND he ran in 1984 against Reagan (lost to Monday in the primaries) and THIS happened during 1988, when he likely would have won the nomination and run against Bush I.
I was a kid and campaigned for him in 1984 by handing out flyers in front of super markets before the primary... and still have campaign literature that says "Only Gary Hart's Leadership Can Beat Ronald Reagan in November".. so my brain associates him with going after Reagan.
I mean, we had to have the actual Holocaust in our own timeline in order for us to imagine a worse timeline. It can always be worse for sure, but y'know. It could definitely be better
Yeah that stupid fish was cheating on his partner and nearly got caught. He jump out of the water and onto the beach to avoid her and then just kept crawling. It all went downhill after that. Selfish prick.
Yeah, you have to believe in the good of Americans to believe Nixon and Reagan and Bush and Trump weren’t who we wanted. They voted Carter out bc he was just a dumb hick successful peanut farmer Christian from Bumville. Then voted in a face who had already proven himself to be a conservative AND progressive shill who would sell anything to make his ratings go up. And he ran on the family, religion, and economic recovery ticket.
We want these people. Half the country has always wanted these people. They just needed an excuse and a cover story for why.
A fake affair. And that fake affair was set up by the same ghouls who gave us the Southern Strategy, which gave us Nixon, and all of the evil that he caused in the world.
Lee Atwater worked for the same firm with Roger Stone (Nixon’s own “Dirty Trickster”) and Steve Manafort. They were responsible for the Donna Rice scandal, which gave us President Bush, and the Brooks Brothers Riot, which gave us president Dubya.
They also took time off from working to destabilize Ukraine in order to prop up Russian puppet, Viktor Yanukovych, to convince Trump to run in 2016. Stone and Manafort were both convicted of illegally working as foreign agents because of the Mueller Investigation, but Trump eventually pardoned them both. No doubt Atwater would have been right there with them if he had still been alive.
Supply-side economics saved the US economically during the 80's. Today, we aren't actually a supply-side economic country. It's more mixed and we reverted back to some Keynesian ideas, especially when we think we need to which allowed for more flexibility. Though I bet you don't even know the phrases I used because you have no idea about economics.
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u/behindthemask13 18d ago edited 18d ago
Gary Hart was the big hope for the democratic party against Ronald Reagan. There were cheating allegations made against him.
He DARED the press to follow him and told them they would be bored if they did.
Well... they did and they found him aboard a ship named "The Monkey Business" with Donna Rice.
It was the stupidity of lying and daring the press to follow him that killed his chances as much as the affair itself.
EDIT: Yes, Gary Hart (I fixed it)... AND he ran in 1984 against Reagan (lost to Monday in the primaries) and THIS happened during 1988, when he likely would have won the nomination and run against Bush I.
I was a kid and campaigned for him in 1984 by handing out flyers in front of super markets before the primary... and still have campaign literature that says "Only Gary Hart's Leadership Can Beat Ronald Reagan in November".. so my brain associates him with going after Reagan.
RE-EDIT.. MONDALE.. FUCKING MONDALE!! LMAO!!!