Our Next President - "The Mulligan Theory"
Hello Rocky,
Just two years now, and counting, until we elect a new President. Who's it gonna be?
Boyd W. Burnett
Tumwater, WA
Rocky Responds:
In order to answer your question about 2008, I need to first take you back to 1960. Eisenhower was finishing up his second term as a reasonably popular President. His VP, Richard Nixon, lost a very close race to Mr. Kennedy. As you know, Boyd, Nixon came lumbering out of the political graveyard in 1968 and won two successive Presidential elections. What the hell happened?
What happened was eight years of Kennedy & Johnson left America knee-deep in an unpopular war with no believable exit strategy. When Johnson announced he would not seek re-election the race was wide open. The Dems flirted with anti-war candidate Eugene McCarthy but ended up nominating political uber-hack Hubert Humphrey. The GOP trotted out Nixon and gave America the chance to "take a Mulligan" - suggesting that if we had elected Nixon in 1960 we wouldn't be in this mess, so let's right that wrong.
You see where this is heading. Al Gore will be our next President. Bank on it. The Republicans will trot out their own political hack, a John McCain type - a high-profile do-nothing who will blather on about "staying the course." The Democratic Senators who run, the Clintons and Kerrys and Bidens, will be shot down in the primaries because they signed off on all of this shit that Bush has pulled. About 100 young Americans are now losing their lives each month in Iraq. Many more are being maimed. By 2008, Boyd, America will be ready to take its Mulligan. I'm not saying I like it (though I thought his lockbox was a cute idea), and I'm not saying it's a bad idea, I'm just telling you how these things work. Plan accordingly.
Stay focused and keep up the good work.
We'll party like it's 1999!
Update: The team at Independent Sources picked up this article, once again beating Drudge to the punch.
Just two years now, and counting, until we elect a new President. Who's it gonna be?
Boyd W. Burnett
Tumwater, WA
Rocky Responds:
In order to answer your question about 2008, I need to first take you back to 1960. Eisenhower was finishing up his second term as a reasonably popular President. His VP, Richard Nixon, lost a very close race to Mr. Kennedy. As you know, Boyd, Nixon came lumbering out of the political graveyard in 1968 and won two successive Presidential elections. What the hell happened?
What happened was eight years of Kennedy & Johnson left America knee-deep in an unpopular war with no believable exit strategy. When Johnson announced he would not seek re-election the race was wide open. The Dems flirted with anti-war candidate Eugene McCarthy but ended up nominating political uber-hack Hubert Humphrey. The GOP trotted out Nixon and gave America the chance to "take a Mulligan" - suggesting that if we had elected Nixon in 1960 we wouldn't be in this mess, so let's right that wrong.
You see where this is heading. Al Gore will be our next President. Bank on it. The Republicans will trot out their own political hack, a John McCain type - a high-profile do-nothing who will blather on about "staying the course." The Democratic Senators who run, the Clintons and Kerrys and Bidens, will be shot down in the primaries because they signed off on all of this shit that Bush has pulled. About 100 young Americans are now losing their lives each month in Iraq. Many more are being maimed. By 2008, Boyd, America will be ready to take its Mulligan. I'm not saying I like it (though I thought his lockbox was a cute idea), and I'm not saying it's a bad idea, I'm just telling you how these things work. Plan accordingly.
Stay focused and keep up the good work.
We'll party like it's 1999!
Update: The team at Independent Sources picked up this article, once again beating Drudge to the punch.
Good analysis. I believe in your "Mulligan Theory" of politics. So much of why we vote has less to do with "doing" and more to do with "undoing."
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"The Mulligan Theory" explains why I married an old girlfriend after my first divorce. I guess I wanted to erase ten bad years, but instead I got ten more bad years with somebody new.
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I hope Hardball's Chris Mathews doesn't find out about the "Mulligan Theory." That's the kind of thing he latches onto and keeps repeating until he squeezes the life out of it.
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I would counter the "Mulligan Theory" with my own "Gilligan Theory." Whenever a VP from either party gets elected he fouls things up. These guys spend eight years watching the Captain work but give 'em a chance and they still can't drive the boat.
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If Al Gore gets elected I'll start drinking again - so call that my
"Bennigan's Theory." Except it's not so much a theory as a cry for help.
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Spot on analysis.
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ObamaFest.com sees Senator Obama's campaign as hindering Mr. Gore's chances.
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