re: #42 BryanS

I don’t want to seem as though I am making comparisons to the 1980 election other than to point out one thing. Being pleased about your opponent’s adherence to their platform as a sure sign that the other side is going off the cliff is a sign of potentially misplaced hubris.

The 1980 election, to a large degree, was about Iran and the embassy.

If our Bin Laden raid had failed, if both helicopters crashed and Seal Team Six were POW’s… then this would be a fair analogy. (but it still wouldn’t mean people like the Republican economic plan, it would mean they’d vote for their Nat’l Security preference in spite of a fucked-up economic plan).