Fuzzy Bear
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« on: February 06, 2016, 01:07:57 PM » |
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Sears's strategy may not have backfired if Reagan had chosen Sen. James Buckley (R-NY). Buckley was, like Sanders is today, not, technically a Republican, but a member of New York's Conservative Party. But Buckley was elected with Republican and conservative Democratic votes, and was endorsed in 1970 by a number of prominent Republicans. He was also the choice of the Nixon White House; Spiro Agnew called Buckley's Republican opponent,, Sen. Charles Goodell (R-NY) "the Christine Jorgensen of the Repubican Party". New York's delegates were boss-controlled, and most of them would not have bit, but some would, and there wouldn't have been the backlash against Reagan from Jesse Helms and Buckley over the selection.
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