A Ms. O'Donnell has won the GOP primary in Delaware, and she seems to have a lot of the right stuff, if by "the right stuff" one means a lot of opinions not cleared by the committee in charge of such things.
So big deal. I'm trying to remember if I voted for George Wallace once...
Are you still here? Wondering what the heck I'm talking about? When did I live in Alabama? Or was I living in Georgia and voted for Eugene Talmadge?
George Wallace was running for the GOP presidential nomination once; his running mate was General Curtis LeMay of WWII carpet-bombing fame. I believe Mr. Wallace won the primary in Michigan. That is my memory of it. Did I vote for him? Can't recall. Michigan was in one of its periodic recessions then; in addition to the national downturns, we had our own sideshow of distress. We knew back then we were screwed, but we kept believing that the Auto Industry had the "right stuff", even though facts clearly indicated they were on the path to extinction.
We were always voting to "throw the bums out", but they kept coming back... like cockroaches.
And there was the racism thing bubbling just under the surface. Riots were recent memory. Riots ripped the skin off the lily-white Kennedy aura of the USA to be replaced by a bleeding scab. There was not actually more violence and hate than before; it was just that we did such a good job of pretending that it did not exist back in the Eisenhower-Kennedy Era. Now we had our faces right in it, and we discovered we were frightened and we really did not have a "Manhattan Project" to find a way to live as a community.
We were frightened by what we saw of ourselves.
We still are.
We are a nation drunk on expensive brandy or cognac mixed with Coca Cola, and we are sensuous lovers, insatiable lovers... and our lover says good-bye... so we get drunk on Courvoisier & Coke... and we shoot ourselves.
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