Quote (Goomshill @ Mar 22 2023 12:57pm)
This. The part about the landslide at least. We can drum up what-if scenarios about swift boats, or willie horton, or butterfly ballots, or hillarys emails. Close elections, straw that broke the camels back, whatever. But Reagan was about as far ahead as Cassius Clay fighting Steven Hawking. We can debate the legality and ethics and precedent Reagan set with the Iranian hostages, but he was obviously winning either way.
If anything the fallout just shows how demented it was when Democrats tried to find anything to stick to Trump and went with 'Trump Jr listened to a bogus claim by Magnitsky-Adoption lobbyists' and 'Trump asked Ukraine to look into Hunter Biden's corruption'. And pretend thats some grievous offense when Reagan was going around Carter to directly negotiate with a hostile foreign power holding US hostages
it all comes full circle, GOP critics of Clinton impeached him based on marital relations and morality under some flimsy perjury pretense.
now they're calling cheating scandals a marital issue not to be made public, paying for abortions while being anti abortion is no big deal.
in any case Carter came out ahead, ineffectual president who got to walk out after 1 term and become beloved doing charity work. also oft quoted anecdote about selling his family peanut farm to remain impartial. no one even remembers how bad of a POTUS he was on average.