Another Perspective
What a Disappointment
Is the Republican moment over? It's looking that way.
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“I haven’t even considered other candidates. I can tell you I
wouldn’t vote for McCain,” she told her fellow participants.
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The room then wanted to know if she’d vote for Clinton should
McCain run against her in November.
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“To tell you the truth, that’s the worst ticket I can imagine,”
Johnson, 53, said.
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And that’s where I stand. I’m trying to think back in my experience to a worse election choice. Humphrey and Nixon? You’d have to go back a long, long way.
It has certainly been a long time since I’ve thanked heaven and the founding fathers that America has a stodgy, balky system of government, hard to move, hard to change. A party may get seduced by an emotional champion, but chances are, the government won’t.
That’s just about all we have to fall back on now.
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