Dear PrezVeepSenator members, I want to welcome everyone of you once again. We have members as young as sixteen, and as "mature" as in their retirement age. We...
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Greg Cannon
gregcannon1
Jul 19, 2004 10:51 pm
ram, i know you're interested in the republican party's history, so here's something from Dark Horse. It's from a footnote on page 56. "In 1860, Lincoln had ...
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Ram Lau
ramlau
Jul 19, 2004 11:36 pm
Greg, Take a look: CHAFEE, Lincoln Davenport, 1953-: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C001040 CHAFFEE, Jerome Bunty, 1825-1886: ...
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tonymaloley
Jul 22, 2004 7:17 am
If you watch college football, you'll probably recognize the name Tom Osbourne. The former Cornhuskers coach now represents his state in congress. People...
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Greg Cannon
gregcannon1
Jul 23, 2004 12:39 am
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=503181 SIMON W. VOZICK-LEVINSON, HARVARD CRIMSON - As the race for the White House heats up and the nation's...
I'd say 1964. LBJ-HHH is still the most liberal ticket of the Democratic Party ever (FDR-Truman and Carter-Mondale are pretty close). Then we have...
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greg
gregcannon1
Jul 27, 2004 6:30 pm
I don't know anything about Miller, who was he? I've read Goldwater's book Conscience of a Conservative, it was very interesting....
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Ram Lau
ramlau
Jul 27, 2004 7:48 pm
Goldwater was a REAL conservative who firmly believed in the conservative values. I respect him for that. Bill Miller was a random bozo: ...
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greg
gregcannon1
Jul 27, 2004 10:47 pm
He apparently turned down the Republicans' nomination offer. "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."...
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greg
gregcannon1
Jul 27, 2004 10:48 pm
The members who comprised it were seven-eighths of them, ...the meanest kind of bawling and blowing officeholders, office-seekers, pimps, malignants,...
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Ram Lau
ramlau
Jul 27, 2004 11:10 pm
Any reason for him to be such an ass? Ram...
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Ram Lau
ramlau
Jul 27, 2004 11:16 pm
... ^^^^^ HA, HA. Pimps and fancy-men are more likely to be found on MTV in these days. Also, Whitman would never have thought that this same party would...
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Ram Lau
ramlau
Jul 28, 2004 12:05 am
Robert Caro was introducing Ted Kennedy at the DNC. I wonder when Caro will write a biography for him. I don't see there's a better historian to take the job. ...
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greg
gregcannon1
Jul 28, 2004 12:42 am
I don't know what his reason was. It's just mentioned in a footnote in the Garfield book....
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Greg Cannon
gregcannon1
Jul 28, 2004 1:55 am
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory22.html The Silver Linings in Canceling the Elections by Anthony Gregory (With inspiration and some tutelage from...
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greg
gregcannon1
Jul 28, 2004 8:23 pm
Last night after watching the convention in Boston on C-SPAN I turned to C-SPAN 2 and watched the 1972 Republican Convention in Miami. I watched Spiro Agnew...
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Ram Lau
ramlau
Jul 28, 2004 11:13 pm
"Agnew resigned after pleading nolo contendere (no contest) to a criminal charge of tax evasion, part of a scheme where he allegedly accepted $29,500 in bribes...
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Ram Lau
ramlau
Jul 29, 2004 5:19 am
When I am your President, the rest of the world will not look down on us with pity but up to us with respect again. What is George Bush doing about our...
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Greg Cannon
gregcannon1
Jul 29, 2004 5:33 am
CAPITOL HILL BLUE: PRESIDENT USING POWERFUL DRUGS http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4921.shtml TERESA HAMPTON, CAPITOL HILL BLUE -...
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greg
gregcannon1
Jul 31, 2004 5:57 pm
I could not be nominated in any event, for if I were to receive every other vote in the Convention, my own would still be lacking, and that I would not give. I...
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Ram Lau
ramlau
Jul 31, 2004 7:36 pm
Conkling and Blaine were the biggest crooks in the gilded age. What did they have on the Democratic side back then? Ram...
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greg
gregcannon1
Jul 31, 2004 11:21 pm
Hmm. Grover Cleveland (governor of Ohio?) was the candidate in 1884. But in 1880 I'm not sure who they nominated. I have a feeling they nominated someone named...
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Ram Lau
ramlau
Aug 1, 2004 12:54 am
Cleveland was the Governor of New York, he was the Democratic nominee in 1884. In 1880 the Democratic nominee was Winfield Scott Hancock: ...
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Ram Lau
ramlau
Aug 1, 2004 12:58 am
"After 19 years in the United States Senate, my opponent has had thousands of votes but very few signature achievements." - A shameless son of a President who...
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greg
gregcannon1
Aug 1, 2004 9:15 am
Thank you, Ram. And I think I remember that Greeley died a few days before the election, or was it a few days after? Unless I'm thinking of someone else....
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Ram Lau
ramlau
Aug 1, 2004 5:01 pm
It wasn't Greeley. But I know what you are talking about. I can also blurrily remember some guy did lose and died a few days after the general election in the...
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greg
gregcannon1
Aug 1, 2004 6:22 pm
And whoever it was died before the electoral votes were officialy counted, so his votes mostly went to other people. I think it was someone who lost to Grant,...
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Ram Lau
ramlau
Aug 1, 2004 9:21 pm
There were lots of Shermans back then. William T. Sherman had a brother who was a presidential nominee wannabe but never was as popular as his brother. Then...
