Atlas Throwback: 1965 edition

[NeverAgain]

RFK will probably run against LBJ as the liberal alternative. It all depends how LBJ handles the build-up in Vietnam. If he continues his path of hawkishness, RFK will win the dove vote and quite possibly the nomination. I think that Pat Brown may make a run at the nomination if he wins next year. I think the GOP will run someone establishment because of the awfulness of Goldwater... Maybe Romney or Rockefeller. I'd say the likely tickets are Romney/Rockefeller vs. RFK/Sanford or LBJ/Humphrey.

[NeverAgain]

Why would Kennedy run? I know that he and Johnson didn't get along when they were both part of his brother's administration, but the war seems to be going along fine. I don't like Johnson, but you can't hold the war against him.

If either LBJ doesn't run or gets bogged down if the war turns sour. He obviously wants to run and LBJ doesn't want to be a Kennedy "placeholder". I think that either we win the war within the next year and then there is an economic slump or we get bogged down by Southeast Asia, those are the only ways LBJ doesn't run. I think if there is enough support against the war in two years against the war within the party, Kennedy will run as liberal alternative, and he just might win.

[NeverAgain]

Why would Kennedy run? I know that he and Johnson didn't get along when they were both part of his brother's administration, but the war seems to be going along fine. I don't like Johnson, but you can't hold the war against him.

If either LBJ doesn't run or gets bogged down if the war turns sour. He obviously wants to run and LBJ doesn't want to be a Kennedy "placeholder". I think that either we win the war within the next year and then there is an economic slump or we get bogged down by Southeast Asia, those are the only ways LBJ doesn't run. I think if there is enough support against the war in two years against the war within the party, Kennedy will run as liberal alternative, and he just might win.

America has never lost a war though

I didn't say we'd lose it. North Vietnam is a weak country by itself but with the help of the Ruskies and China we could be stalemated there.

[NeverAgain]

Why would Kennedy run? I know that he and Johnson didn't get along when they were both part of his brother's administration, but the war seems to be going along fine. I don't like Johnson, but you can't hold the war against him.

If either LBJ doesn't run or gets bogged down if the war turns sour. He obviously wants to run and LBJ doesn't want to be a Kennedy "placeholder". I think that either we win the war within the next year and then there is an economic slump or we get bogged down by Southeast Asia, those are the only ways LBJ doesn't run. I think if there is enough support against the war in two years against the war within the party, Kennedy will run as liberal alternative, and he just might win.

America has never lost a war though

I didn't say we'd lose it. North Vietnam is a weak country by itself but with the help of the Ruskies and China we could be stalemated there.

Maybe China but I dont think Russia would risk WW3 over this

We shouldn't either. We already know that Russia is supporting them, and China is doing so wholeheartedly. We should have our troops come home, there's nothing there but unsuccessful nation-building. I mean what's the point of going over there to have to then prop up an unstable regime in the name of "democracy". (OOC: I really just love hindsight)