gorkay
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« on: October 10, 2007, 08:14:40 AM » |
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If you reversed the ticket, chances would have been good for the GOP. Buckley, BTW, was considered as a compromise candidate at the '76 convention when it appeared there might be a deadlock between Ford and Reagan. But Helms at the top of the ticket would have ruined Republican prospects. His views actually weren't that different from Reagan's, but he expressed them in a much more disagreeable and confrontational manner. Reagan's genius as a politician was his ability to convince die-hard conservatives that he was a true believer, while at the same time implying to moderates that he didn't really believe all the conservative rhetoric. Bill Clinton has something of the same ability... liberals, moderates, and even a few conservatives are all convinced that he is one of them.
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