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Originally Posted by Vegas Vic
Thomas Dewey would have destroyed Harry Truman on Jeopardy. If FOFC had been around in 1948, there would have been a one-hundred page thread on the stupidity of the American people in supporting a bumpkin who spoke in colloquialisms over a polished intellectual who was obviously the smartest man in the room.
Jimmy Carter had a BS in Physics, and could explain in detail how a nuclear weapon functioned, but his analysis by paralysis record of governance was no match for the affable Ronald Reagan, who was blasted by intellectuals for being a vapid bubblehead.
It’s not a partisan issue. Look no further than Lyndon Johnson against Barry Goldwater.
Something that many of you are probably never going to grasp, and quite frankly I never grasped until 2004, is that a person’s core convictions and their ability to sincerely impart those convictions to the public without flinching or parsing their words is always going to trump someone with a college professor’s command of the facts.
Truman and Reagan are probably two of the best examples of men who knew their convictions and surrounded themselves with extraordinary talent in the cabinet who shared their ideology, did the micro-analysis and relayed their recommendations back to the executive, who usually made the correct decisions to the dismay of elitists everywhere.
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This is the
exact argument that was made in favor of George W. when he was running for President. He would run the White House and the federal government like a CEO runs a business. His core convictions were strong, so all he needed was a cadre of great men and women to help attend to the detailed minutiae. Most Americans would agree that his Presidency has been a failure.
That said, I like Palin and like a lot of her ideas on government reform and energy policy. I'd certainly vote for her over McCain. It will be interesting to see how she positions herself over the next four years if her ticket doesn't win the election.