[Magdalen] pondering politics

[Lynn Ronkainen]

ML>"...because 68 protesters were protesting the war and the then present 
administration's support of it, which cherry-picked a nominee who had and 
continued to ignore the primaries. "

AND the primary peace-monger of the Civil Rights movement amid the chaos of 
Vietnam and the backlash to LBJ's Civil Right's Act  was gunned down in 
April, and then the heir apparent to the Democratic nomination, killed 
shortly thereafter...  no simple year that.

Nominees in those years were often 'rule followers'... just like John 
McCain, IMNSHO was 'given' the nomination in '08 for the same reason.  In 75 
Regan was a rogue interloper in a unique situation, running against a 
sitting president that had never been elected VP or P but had held both 
offices briefly before running for office.

Lynn

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 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
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From: "M J _Mike_ Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 2:53 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] pondering politics

>>>>I've read in many places that
> folks think this years conventions may be a reprise of Chicago in '68....
> hard to 'see' what that would look like if the shoe was on the Republican
> foot this time...<<<
>
> If we're lucky enough (sic) for it to so happen, I predict it will be 
> worse, because 68 protesters were protesting the war and the then present 
> administration's support of it, which cherry-picked a nominee who had and 
> continued to ignore the primaries.  Today, it'll be a bunch of unruly, 
> violently angry people protesting nothing more than their unruly, 
> violently angry candidate getting legally (via the "rules") ousted for 
> something more akin to a human being and less horrifying.  There will be 
> blood, potential loss of life, and a foregone SCOTUS suit which hopefully 
> SCOTUS will refuse to hear (provided, hopefully, lower courts -- did Gore 
> v Bush go through a lower court first? -- rule in favor of legal 
> convention rules and not in favor of the unruly, violently angry poor 
> billionaire.