From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:08:03 -0400, Monte Davis
 wrote:

> "Gary Wiltshire"  wrote:
>
>> From my point of view we should have jumped in no later than
>> Britain and considerably earlier than that.
>
> And your point of view, if expressed in a political campaign in the
> 1930s, would have kept you well away from high office. Churchill was
> considered a loud-mouthed warmonger by most voters in the UK until
> 1939, and still unsuitable for PM by most until the spring of 1940.
> Roosevelt promised not to send American boys into Europe's war in the
> 1940 campaign, barely got a draft through, and was still tap-dancing
> when the Japanese dropped war into his lap at Pearl Harbor.
>
> I suspect they were both smarter political animals than you, and that
> your real objection is not to this or that foreign policy decision
> w/r/t WWII or Korea or Vietnam, but to the wimpiness of democratic
> (small-d) electorates.
>
> Feel free to mount your stallion and lead the charge any time.
>

And Churchill was right!  So is Bush.

As to my electability, that'll never happen.  All that would happen would
be the word "bipolar" waved around for 20 seconds.  Remember a
certain Democratic VP candidate abruptly yanked and replaced a few decades
back?

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Gary Wiltshire

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