You also were likely remembering the fact that Ted KennedyтАЩs challenge to Carter threw the convention into chaos and helped Reagan get elected. People like the NYT editorial board тАФ and apparently Obama тАФ who are advocating that kind of convention for its тАЬexcitementтАЭ have chosen to forget those disasters. The hilariously named тАЬMy History Can Beat Up Your PoliticsтАЭ podcast interviewed Rick Perlstein about that insane convention in their episode titled тАЬIt Looked Like HellтАЭ (Aug. 18 2020).
Last night Rachel Maddow slammed the NY Times editorial board for spending weeks pushing the idea of an open convention because it would be exciting but then doing a 180 after Biden dropped out because of the chaos that would result. When will the media learn that that millions of us prefer competence over excitement? Excitement can lead to a Trump or Boris Johnson.
Because you're human! It was a fantastic piece, as always. I was concerned at first that time was too short to mount a successful campaign for a new candidate, but as you state, the party is actually coming together. And listening to Harris speak in Delaware yesterday, I am actually getting excited about her candidacy.
Massive brain black-out. It was RFK not Ted Kennedy who ran in 1968. Don't know how I f-ed that up!
Pounding your keyboard to
bring us this. You're forgiven.
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Don't sweat it.
No sweat. We knew what you meant. Ya got a smart following. Haha
My brain is squeeeling too, Lucian. Not to worry. We are all there with you.
An otherwise excellent piece. No one bats 1.000. Keep up the good work.
Maybe itтАЩs the same thing that made you choose that headline.
You also were likely remembering the fact that Ted KennedyтАЩs challenge to Carter threw the convention into chaos and helped Reagan get elected. People like the NYT editorial board тАФ and apparently Obama тАФ who are advocating that kind of convention for its тАЬexcitementтАЭ have chosen to forget those disasters. The hilariously named тАЬMy History Can Beat Up Your PoliticsтАЭ podcast interviewed Rick Perlstein about that insane convention in their episode titled тАЬIt Looked Like HellтАЭ (Aug. 18 2020).
Last night Rachel Maddow slammed the NY Times editorial board for spending weeks pushing the idea of an open convention because it would be exciting but then doing a 180 after Biden dropped out because of the chaos that would result. When will the media learn that that millions of us prefer competence over excitement? Excitement can lead to a Trump or Boris Johnson.
Because you're human! It was a fantastic piece, as always. I was concerned at first that time was too short to mount a successful campaign for a new candidate, but as you state, the party is actually coming together. And listening to Harris speak in Delaware yesterday, I am actually getting excited about her candidacy.
Recency effect. We knew what you meant.