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empedocles

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1. 'Tail-gunner Joe' of 1950's notoriety, basically self-destructed.

Reply to Dem4Life1102 (Original post)

Sun Mar 8, 2020, 08:25 AM

Mar 2020

[Even though his ghost was still visible, in the NH primary of 1968, to significant anti- LBJ effect . . . where enough voters, assumed they were voting for 'tail-gunner' joe somehow - and actually provided tgjoe's politically opposite Senator Gene McCarthy, with enough votes to depress LBJ].

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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Remember when Joe McCarthy claimed there were 57 [View all] Dem4Life1102 Mar 2020 OP

'Tail-gunner Joe' of 1950's notoriety, basically self-destructed. empedocles Mar 2020 #1

He would thrive today Chainfire Mar 2020 #2

Move over Mark Meadows. Joe McCarthy would be COS. no_hypocrisy Mar 2020 #3

I remember that number from mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2020 #4

Roy Cohn underpants Mar 2020 #5

Sen. Joe McCarthy (L) with attny. Roy Cohn, Army-McCarthy Hearings 1954 appalachiablue Mar 2020 #6

It was the Army-McCarthy Hearings that pushed my dad to get a tv bobbieinok Mar 2020 #7