“These are the stakes…”

[jrittenhouse]

The other day, I was trying to assemble a set of terms of Bushit Bingo, where you have Bingo cards with different Bush common statements on them, and you pass them out before a speech to see who can Bingo on the terms in the speech.  Bush was trying to get through an hour-long press conference without really saying anything aside of ’stay the

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[joakleaf]

I think there's a slight difference in the LBJ campaign and what the republicans are doing. The difference I have in mind is not simple party affiliation, but a different story altogether.

The Daisy ad (and others) was counter-campaigning, and admittedly brutal, and fear-mongering. The difference is the Russians actually HAD nukes, and Goldwater had made some rather pervocative statements regarding the use of those weapons by the U.S. of A. The "Men's room of the Kremlin" line comes to mind.

[jrittenhouse]

And which Goldwater did not do - see the whole set below:

http://home.nyc.rr.com/alweisel/outwalterjenkins.htm
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/09/18/lbj.tapes/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Jenkins

[jrittenhouse]

Exactly.