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jwirr

(39,215 posts)
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 02:18 PM Feb 2015

Agreed. I am old enough to remember that also. And I go further back. We nominated Jimmy

Carter not because he was a centrist - we thought of him as honest. After Nixon we wanted nothing to do with dishonesty. And yes when he lost to raygun it was treason. A dirty trick that kept the Iran hostages captive until rayguns inauguration day.

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