Two choices! "If we elected him years ago, then we wouldn't have had to deal with the ridicule from knowledgeable people in other countries about having a 100 year old guy in the top few in the line of succession for the presidency. I still get snarky emails about that."
"Had we elected this man, we wouldn't have down in the history books that the American public elected to the presidency a man with a middle initial and no middle name. Or that stupid picture with the newspaper. I can picture it now: Thurmond Defeats Dewey. I could have gotten behind that."
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Date: 2002-12-11 09:11 am (UTC)"If we elected him years ago, then we wouldn't have had to deal with the ridicule from knowledgeable people in other countries about having a 100 year old guy in the top few in the line of succession for the presidency. I still get snarky emails about that."
"Had we elected this man, we wouldn't have down in the history books that the American public elected to the presidency a man with a middle initial and no middle name. Or that stupid picture with the newspaper. I can picture it now: Thurmond Defeats Dewey. I could have gotten behind that."