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Flashback: Clinton cheered 11th hour indictment that doomed Bush re-election

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A little light reading while you're on your fainting couches hyperventilating about how unprecedented and underhanded this Comey thing supposedly is:

Flashback: Clinton cheered 11th hour indictment that doomed Bush re-election | Washington Examiner

That's because 24 years ago, as former President George H.W. Bush was surging back against challenger Bill Clinton, a special prosecutor raised new charges against Bush in the Iran-Contra probe, prompting Clinton to claim he was running against a "culture of corruption."

Many Republicans claimed that the indictment made by special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh against former Reagan-era Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger the weekend before the 1992 election cost Bush a second term. The indictment, later thrown out, challenged Bush's claim that he did not know about a controversial arms-for-hostages deal that dogged the Reagan-Bush administration.

When it came, Clinton seized on it, saying for example, "Secretary Weinberger's note clearly shows that President Bush has not been telling the truth when he says he was out of the loop." Clinton added, "It demonstrates that President Bush knew and approved of President Reagan's secret deal to swap arms for hostages."
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Hog wash.. Perot doomed Bush 1 reelection.
 
Bob N said:
Dwight D. Eisenhower did give the gentleman his start in political life. So I seriously doubt that Mr Walsh leaned to the left.
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Eisenhower also appointed Earl Warren and said it was the biggest damn fool mistake he ever made, so this is . . . specious . . . at best.
 
Harshaw said:
Entirely and utterly irrelevant to the point. Typical.
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The OP was about how Clinton cheered an 11th hour something that doomed Bush 1 reelection. It was not an 11 hour investigation or whatever.. it was Perot.
 
PeteEU said:
The OP was about how Clinton cheered an 11th hour something that doomed Bush 1 reelection. It was not an 11 hour investigation or whatever.. it was Perot.
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No, that was the headline, which, by the rules, the OP is required to use as the subject line, and which the link automatically becomes when posted.

The OP was about something else entirely.

But you know this. And this is weak, even for your typical style.
 
People make mistakes, but that doesn't alter the *need* that the permanent government has to keep it's mitts off elections.
 
Harshaw said:
Eisenhower also appointed Earl Warren and said it was the biggest damn fool mistake he ever made, so this is . . . specious . . . at best.
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Like I said Eisenhower appointed Walsh and I'll guarantee you that the gentleman wasn't a full lefty--especially in those days.
 
Bob N said:
Like I said Eisenhower appointed Walsh and I'll guarantee you that the gentleman wasn't a full lefty--especially in those days.
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It's like you didn't even read what I said. Oh, well.
 
Harshaw said:
It's like you didn't even read what I said. Oh, well.
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Thanks for trying to make the point that "this Comey thing" is not necessarily "unprecedented and underhanded." I guess it's easy to miss the first sentence in a post. :roll:
 
nota bene said:
Thanks for trying to make the point that "this Comey thing" is not necessarily "unprecedented and underhanded." I guess it's easy to miss the first sentence in a post. :roll:
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People do what they think they need to in order to distract from the shoe fitting snugly on the other foot.
 
Harshaw said:
A little light reading while you're on your fainting couches hyperventilating about how unprecedented and underhanded this Comey thing supposedly is:

Flashback: Clinton cheered 11th hour indictment that doomed Bush re-election | Washington Examiner
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Do you know the difference between an INDICTMENT by a Special Prosecutor and a letter saying the writer has his own head up his ass and has no idea if he has any actual evidence or if it is of any significance.


btw- thats a rhetorical question s you post answers it fully.
 
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