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No, you misread what I said.No I'm not. I'm arguing that Carter could very well have beaten Reagan if he had a united Democratic Party behind him throughout his presidency, which he never did, just like Obama now.And Synthahol isn't arguing that, he's arguing that Reagan was unelectable even though he won.
When Oliver North's mission to rescue the hostages failed, Carter didn't have Democrats defending him, the way Republicans defend their presidents, or even as much as Clinton got. Carter was always the outsider, the peanut farmer from Georgia. Kennedy fractured the Party with his candidacy. Who the hell challenges a sitting president of their own Party? An privileged egomaniac, that's who.
But I never said that Reagan was unelectable. He was an actor, after all.
OK, so my point was that Reagan was considered "unelectable" because he wasn't moderate. You actually were arguing with me without actually disagreeing with the point I made. How stupid is that? Why were you wasting my time with that?
I never implied Reagan was unelectable. I said that he was beatable with a unified Democratic Party.
The problem was that Carter was unelectable
With runaway inflation, a horrible economy and the Iran Hostage crisis....any Republican would have won in 1980
And just think (I know that's funny, but try!) ALL of those were caused by a DemocRAT!
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