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In Reply to: RE: By next year, this will all be forgotten. posted by rivervalley817 on August 15, 2021 at 16:10:37:
He lost because he pardoned Nixon, and his best effort at fighting inflation was those idiotic "WIN" buttons. The latter figured larger than the former.
Americans have never cared about what happened in Afghanistan unless they had family members stationed there. Same with Iraq. They don't and won't care now.
The mid-terms are over a year away, which is about 10,000 political lifetimes. The outcome will be determined by whatever the hot button issue is in September and October of 2022. It's ridiculous to even believe Afghanistan will have any effect on 2024. Any politician tries to make it an issue, people will wonder what's wrong with the guy.
We ended our involvement in Vietnam in 1975. By 1980, the war was already such a dim memory for most of us that Ronald Reagan was able to re-write it.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
Edits: 08/15/21
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- Gerald Ford didn't lose because of the pictures from Saigon. - ghost of olddude55 18:24:39 08/15/21 (4)
- RE: Gerald Ford didn't lose because of the pictures from Saigon. - rivervalley817 22:03:48 08/15/21 (3)
- You're also giving voters too much credit. - ghost of olddude55 03:58:09 08/16/21 (2)
- RE: You're also giving voters too much credit. - rivervalley817 13:08:39 08/16/21 (0)
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