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27. poppy bush was even more of a loser candidate

Reply to banned from Kos (Reply #6)

Sun Jan 15, 2012, 02:15 AM

Jan 2012

especially when given the obvious comparison to reagan.

people give poppy a pass on being a terrible campaigner because he won (once, anyway); it sticks for dukakis because of the result.

the fact of the matter is that the republican party was doing well at that point and keeping them on was the very likely result regardless of the actual candidates. we could have run a tremendously charismatic candidate and likely still would have lost.

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