Robertson '88
- Thread starter TyrannusZero
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Lost Freeway
Banned
Sadly, I can see totally off-the-wall conspiracy theories gaining a lot of believers given the inexplicable nature of the disasters befalling the GOP.
Chapter 3: A Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming
"He could be a transformational figure, just like Jack Kennedy was a generation ago!"
- Senator Dan Quayle on why he's supporting Pat Robertson during an episode of Crossfire, August 19th, 1988.
"He could be a transformational figure, just like Jack Kennedy was a generation ago!"
- Senator Dan Quayle on why he's supporting Pat Robertson during an episode of Crossfire, August 19th, 1988.
"A transformational figure? Are you kidding me?! No, let me tell you: I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Pat Robertson? He's no Jack Kennedy."
- Senator Lloyd Bentsen, animatedly sharing his opinion to Dan Quayle on why Pat Robertson is no JFK on that same August 19th episode of Crossfire.
- Senator Lloyd Bentsen, animatedly sharing his opinion to Dan Quayle on why Pat Robertson is no JFK on that same August 19th episode of Crossfire.
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From: Jane Woodman <jwoodman@csu.edu> Sent at 8:30 AM 9/22/2014
To: Mark Biggs <mbiggs@csu.edu> Read at 11:15 AM 9/22/2014
CC:
Subject: Uh, Mark?
Mark,
We need to talk, honey. I get you like video games, I really do, and I've even joined you in playing them from time to time....but enough is enough. We have a major project to power through and I need my partner, which is you(in case you've forgotten) to cast them aside for a bit. Yes, it was a birthday present, and no, I don't regret buying it for you. I love you, and have loved you for years now. However all the time you've spent on it in the last three months is getting out of hand and worse, its affecting your schoolwork and our relationship. Did you seriously imagine I was going to carry the entire load like last time? Unlike last time when you came down with the flu and I was forced to ensure our geology lab didn't go to hell in a handbasket, you are perfectly healthy and sound of mind; I didn't care last time because I wanted you to focus on getting better, taking the medicine the campus doctor prescribed for you and everything else happening then. Do you not get it? I need you. I agreed to sign up for Smith's class because you were taking it as well and you promised we would get our history requirements out of the way so senior year wouldn't be wasted on such trivial bullshit courses.
I wrote all of this(instead of sending you a MacMessage on our MacPhone 7s and because I'm in class atm) to ask you to meet me at Number One Pho around 7 tonight. Can you do that for me? I can't believe, as your girlfriend, I'm forced to beg you to come to a place we went on one of our first dates when we arrived in Cleveland but here we are. If you don't respond, Mark, I'll be forced to consider our relationship in grave danger, if not over.
Love,
Janey.
From the laptop of Jane Woodman, started on September 11th, 2014, last accessed at 10:57 AM on September 22nd, 2014
From: Jane Woodman <jwoodman@csu.edu> Sent at 8:30 AM 9/22/2014
To: Mark Biggs <mbiggs@csu.edu> Read at 11:15 AM 9/22/2014
CC:
Subject: Uh, Mark?
Mark,
We need to talk, honey. I get you like video games, I really do, and I've even joined you in playing them from time to time....but enough is enough. We have a major project to power through and I need my partner, which is you(in case you've forgotten) to cast them aside for a bit. Yes, it was a birthday present, and no, I don't regret buying it for you. I love you, and have loved you for years now. However all the time you've spent on it in the last three months is getting out of hand and worse, its affecting your schoolwork and our relationship. Did you seriously imagine I was going to carry the entire load like last time? Unlike last time when you came down with the flu and I was forced to ensure our geology lab didn't go to hell in a handbasket, you are perfectly healthy and sound of mind; I didn't care last time because I wanted you to focus on getting better, taking the medicine the campus doctor prescribed for you and everything else happening then. Do you not get it? I need you. I agreed to sign up for Smith's class because you were taking it as well and you promised we would get our history requirements out of the way so senior year wouldn't be wasted on such trivial bullshit courses.
I wrote all of this(instead of sending you a MacMessage on our MacPhone 7s and because I'm in class atm) to ask you to meet me at Number One Pho around 7 tonight. Can you do that for me? I can't believe, as your girlfriend, I'm forced to beg you to come to a place we went on one of our first dates when we arrived in Cleveland but here we are. If you don't respond, Mark, I'll be forced to consider our relationship in grave danger, if not over.
Love,
Janey.
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From the laptop of Jane Woodman, started on September 11th, 2014, last accessed at 10:57 AM on September 22nd, 2014
Research Paper/Presentation Notes:
Reasons why Pat Robertson was able to capture the Republican nomination for President in 1988:
Reasons why Pat Robertson was able to capture the Republican nomination for President in 1988:
III. Prominent Republicans who were heavily courted by Pat Robertson at critical junctures throughout the race were another factor as to why he was able to take advantage of the sudden and shocking deaths of Vice President Bush, Senator Dole, and Representative Kemp. Without them, their resources and donor bases, names, and other shows of support at key times throughout the primary season, I share Professor Smith's opinion he wouldn't have gone anywhere but as a curious aside or footnote in a history book.
Even against a figure like Governor du Pont; who, while not a flashy candidate, he was competent during his time as Governor of Delaware - especially in handling divided government; did manage to gain the (late) confidence of President Reagan and ex-president Nixon, along with other Republicans horrified at Robertson's rapid rise throughout the final months of '87 and early '88. In all likelihood, du Pont would be President now if not for Robertson's adroit sense of timing in reaching out to major figures, using his position as a man of god to offer the grieving families condolences, soothing words(strangely uncharacteristic of him, given what he said later on during the actual election season), promises he would continue their "good works" and repudiation of Jerry Falwell's heartless and inflammatory remarks on the Larry King Show greatly contributed to many shaken Republicans joining his ranks....
Those who would join included(must finish later with more detailed analysis after lunch):
a. Senator Dan Quayle - Senator from Indiana and rumored Vice-Presidential candidate for a prospective Robertson ticket in exchange for his early support after Vice President Bush's death.
b/c Barbara Bush and George W. Bush - Former Second Lady of the United States and eldest son of the deceased Vice-President. It's reported Pat Robertson immediately called them and the rest of the Bush family moments after the wreckage of Vice President Bush's plane was found. Already a recent religious convert, it's said his words so moved the widow and son they both promised to do whatever it took to get Robertson elected. Probably the son more than Mrs. Bush considering Bush and Robertson continue a close relationship until the present day.
d. House Minority Whip(and future Speaker of the House '96-'98) Trent Lott: once supported Jack Kemp until his death.
e. Representative Newt Gingrich: simple political opportunism as the winds started to blow in Robertson's direction. Also supported Kemp until a few weeks before his death.
f. Senator Strom Thurmond: former Dole supporter, switched after Robertson made a phone call that was only supposed to last for a half-hour turned into a three hour conversation ending with Thurmond enthusiastically joining in and promising to do whatever it took to help propel Robertson to the White House.
g. Senator Jesse Helms: Old allies from when the Moral Majority was started...
Even against a figure like Governor du Pont; who, while not a flashy candidate, he was competent during his time as Governor of Delaware - especially in handling divided government; did manage to gain the (late) confidence of President Reagan and ex-president Nixon, along with other Republicans horrified at Robertson's rapid rise throughout the final months of '87 and early '88. In all likelihood, du Pont would be President now if not for Robertson's adroit sense of timing in reaching out to major figures, using his position as a man of god to offer the grieving families condolences, soothing words(strangely uncharacteristic of him, given what he said later on during the actual election season), promises he would continue their "good works" and repudiation of Jerry Falwell's heartless and inflammatory remarks on the Larry King Show greatly contributed to many shaken Republicans joining his ranks....
Those who would join included(must finish later with more detailed analysis after lunch):
a. Senator Dan Quayle - Senator from Indiana and rumored Vice-Presidential candidate for a prospective Robertson ticket in exchange for his early support after Vice President Bush's death.
b/c Barbara Bush and George W. Bush - Former Second Lady of the United States and eldest son of the deceased Vice-President. It's reported Pat Robertson immediately called them and the rest of the Bush family moments after the wreckage of Vice President Bush's plane was found. Already a recent religious convert, it's said his words so moved the widow and son they both promised to do whatever it took to get Robertson elected. Probably the son more than Mrs. Bush considering Bush and Robertson continue a close relationship until the present day.
d. House Minority Whip(and future Speaker of the House '96-'98) Trent Lott: once supported Jack Kemp until his death.
e. Representative Newt Gingrich: simple political opportunism as the winds started to blow in Robertson's direction. Also supported Kemp until a few weeks before his death.
f. Senator Strom Thurmond: former Dole supporter, switched after Robertson made a phone call that was only supposed to last for a half-hour turned into a three hour conversation ending with Thurmond enthusiastically joining in and promising to do whatever it took to help propel Robertson to the White House.
g. Senator Jesse Helms: Old allies from when the Moral Majority was started...
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At Cleveland State University, Main Classroom, September 22nd sometime around 11:45 AM...
What stopped her from finishing a very scintillating breakdown of every lowlife, opportunist, scumbag, and wannabe sycophant who joined Robertson's campaign wasn't the overbearing professor in her sociology class, but a curiously early email from her one and only....
Now, usually, she loves receiving email from Mark early on in the morning; hell, one might say it's the high point of the day when he decides to roll out of bed and spend his first few moments writing to her either through email or MacMessage. It's actually kind of sweet, knowing he's thinking about her while they're temporarily apart. Better when he's responding to her serious emails!
Maybe he's finally listening and....
..........oh no. Oh fuck no.
Unfortunately for Jane Woodman, this is not one of those messages. In fact, it wasn't meant to be seen be her eyes at all....
Now, usually, she loves receiving email from Mark early on in the morning; hell, one might say it's the high point of the day when he decides to roll out of bed and spend his first few moments writing to her either through email or MacMessage. It's actually kind of sweet, knowing he's thinking about her while they're temporarily apart. Better when he's responding to her serious emails!
Maybe he's finally listening and....
..........oh no. Oh fuck no.
Unfortunately for Jane Woodman, this is not one of those messages. In fact, it wasn't meant to be seen be her eyes at all....
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"You've heard me say it before, and I'll say it again now: "I think God is giving this country one more chance to save itself, by giving us the opportunity to make Pat Robertson the next President of the United States!"
- Senator Jesse Helms on January 1st, 1988, the day he announced his endorsement of Pat Robertson for President.
- Senator Jesse Helms on January 1st, 1988, the day he announced his endorsement of Pat Robertson for President.
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Orville_third
Banned
Well, the relationship may be on the rocks, but Robertson will hopefully not make it into office.
Lost Freeway
Banned
Yes, the "present day" bits shown so far seem to imply that America hasn't become the theocratic dystopia Robertson wants.
Where are you getting the notion of Robertson gaining office? It's clear from Chapter 1/2 Jane and Mark are doing a collegiate project on failed presidential candidates.
Spoiler alert: Pat Robertson does win South Carolina by a healthy margin.
I really like the romantic drama threading through your framing device. It helps string all the exposition together.
Lost Freeway
Banned
And thus the true agenda of the TL is revealed: secure the permanent dominance of the Democratic party.
Chapter 4: And No Lessons Were Learned
"I would choose life, Pat!"
- pro-life statement screamed at to Pat Robertson by Sarah Heath during a August 7th campaign rally in Juneau, Alaska after he made a very controversial remark about the forces of "abortion, of Satan" arrayed against him in the general election.
- pro-life statement screamed at to Pat Robertson by Sarah Heath during a August 7th campaign rally in Juneau, Alaska after he made a very controversial remark about the forces of "abortion, of Satan" arrayed against him in the general election.
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=+1]Continuing the further adventures of our intrepid hero in the Campus District in Cleveland, Ohio, much later in the morning of September 23rd...
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Okay.....okay....okay. Successfully woke up! Oh shit....I spent the entire night watching "Antquity's Aliens". Fuck. My ViewTube account is going to be frontloaded with conspiracy theory videos on Frogmen Starchildren or how genetically modified food is out to corrupt you .
Calm down, just calm down. It's a minor thing, nothing to stress out about.
Let's take stock of the situation as it stands at 11:30 AM:
So I haven't returned her dozen or so phone calls, MacMessages, or emails yet. None of them have the same venom as last night. Always a good sign there, if she's willing to forgive me or at least cease shrieking at me like I'm some Neanderthal that just discovered fire and burned down the Brontosaurs herd.
Uh...hrm. All of my "research to get myself out of the doghouse and back into Janey's good graces consists solely of hours of "Antiquity's Aliens" episodes that have nothing to do with Pat Robertson. Fantastic. Not going to cut it.
What else can I do for the next ninety minutes before seeing her in class?
I have it: research articles relating to Pat Robertson, print 'em out, then present 'em to Janey. JSTOR's still a thing, right? Yeah it has to.
Let's see....Quickipedia's got scholarly articles I can crib off of? Of course it does. Why wouldn't it?
Okay... open up a few windows in FlameFenrix, type in "Pat Robertson, Iowa Caucus Results; Pat Robertson 1988 Presidential Campaign; Pat Robertson pop culture references and another blade for fun, just in case this old dildo is as boring as Janey thinks he is.
Great - tons data from the Iowa Caucus; she'll use it, I think. Okay let's take a quick peek over at general election info...yep, stuff she might have? Robertson cultural references, starting with the famous Tool song "Prison Sex", the great HBO movie "Game Change"...file that under "maybe" and check back later.
Everything else? Fucking dull as dishwater.
Okay onto the fun blade...
....clack clack clack goes the keyboard....
...all right, we're in business!
From the laptop of Mark Biggs, last accessed on September 23rd, 11:55 AM:
The 2012 election season has come and gone. Despite my prodigious ability to unskew the media's biased polls, it appears our ticket, headlined by Rick Santorum, the brave and noble Representative from Virginia, and his pick for Vice-President, Governor Haggard of Idaho, has lost. Despite our best efforts, against the ever relentless, renewed, unholy forces of liberalism, socialism, communism, race-baiting and every other type of claptrap modern society has embraced like a drunk on Jonestown Kool-Aid since '88, embodied in the person of antichrist Joe Biden, and his little African voodoo doctor race hustler minion aka the Chicago Machine Governor from Sudan or wherever ACORN's hiding his birth certificate at. Sad, depressing, shameful, etc. Oh, I guess President Romney lost, too. Who didn't see that one coming?
Well, my friends around the country, like you, I remember the promises of "Hope and Change" President Romney offered to us real conservatives in his grand bargain. He turned out to be just another tepid Republican. I remember what it was like at the beginning: He courted us, said we were special, said it was time to bridge the divide between the two great wings of conservatism. We supported him because he promised to clean up the tainted Edwards Administration and persuaded the Reform Party that he and his ilk should be defeated at all costs, so a temporary reunion was necessary to expedite the process. We didn't even nominate a Reform slate at the convention back in '08 we were so convinced!
We all know what's happened since. Technocracy - the GOP's only calling card since the Split of '92 - took over. Romney shut us out! Or only gave us minor Cabinet posts. While the ones that could reshape the nation to what it was during the glorious Reagan years were sidelined, including my hero(and close personal friend), Representative Rick Santorum. Why was Romney surprised when we did nothing in '10 to help him during the midterms? Why was he even more shocked when we decided to resume our conventions and nominate our own candidates when the 2012 elections rolled around? And what did they do? They tried sabotaging us every step of the way, all while ignoring how Dupe Biden and his pet were planning their insidious assault on America through the electoral process(a process I'm convinced they corrupted!).
Now comes the hand-wringing, the fingerpointing, the screaming, the yelling, all of it between the real conservatives in the Reform Party as to why we failed. Let's get one truth out of the way, and it may shock you: I'm not blaming liberals for defeating us. Oh no, not this time. They're united, good - no, great - at messaging and have a reliable base that comes out and votes in presidential elections. This time around I'm blaming us for going back(albeit temporarily) to the Republican Party, the party of those worthless cuckservatives, for once again using us, foiling us, mocking us(who could forget President Romney's "47% of Reform supporters are literally insane" line from a GOP fundraiser?) at every turn, like they did back in 1988, when the great Pat Robertson was running.
Its always the Republican Party - those worthless shitheads. Nor have they been the same since 1988 when God in his infinite wisdom culled Bush, Dole and Kemp from the party(and Earth) to send the rest of it a message: "a great and terrible tribulation is coming; only the holy and righteous men can weather this storm, lead the party, and redeem America from what is coming. My chosen vessel to save my chosen people? Pat Robertson." Suffice to say, the so-called "Grand Old Party"(likely in league with Satan) decided to disregard the facts and only tepidly support the good reverend. This, despite the rallies and enthusiasm he generated each and every place he visited in real America! Hundreds of thousands of people came! Lives were changed! It was like a Third Great Awakening! But what did the Republican establishment do with all this energy to see proud American traditionalism restored to its rightful place in society? All but sit on their hands, do nothing, and let that odious peacenik Democrat win while claiming they were "100% behind Robertson!".....
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=+1]Continuing the further adventures of our intrepid hero in the Campus District in Cleveland, Ohio, much later in the morning of September 23rd...
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Okay.....okay....okay. Successfully woke up! Oh shit....I spent the entire night watching "Antquity's Aliens". Fuck. My ViewTube account is going to be frontloaded with conspiracy theory videos on Frogmen Starchildren or how genetically modified food is out to corrupt you .
Calm down, just calm down. It's a minor thing, nothing to stress out about.
Let's take stock of the situation as it stands at 11:30 AM:
So I haven't returned her dozen or so phone calls, MacMessages, or emails yet. None of them have the same venom as last night. Always a good sign there, if she's willing to forgive me or at least cease shrieking at me like I'm some Neanderthal that just discovered fire and burned down the Brontosaurs herd.
Uh...hrm. All of my "research to get myself out of the doghouse and back into Janey's good graces consists solely of hours of "Antiquity's Aliens" episodes that have nothing to do with Pat Robertson. Fantastic. Not going to cut it.
What else can I do for the next ninety minutes before seeing her in class?
I have it: research articles relating to Pat Robertson, print 'em out, then present 'em to Janey. JSTOR's still a thing, right? Yeah it has to.
Let's see....Quickipedia's got scholarly articles I can crib off of? Of course it does. Why wouldn't it?
Okay... open up a few windows in FlameFenrix, type in "Pat Robertson, Iowa Caucus Results; Pat Robertson 1988 Presidential Campaign; Pat Robertson pop culture references and another blade for fun, just in case this old dildo is as boring as Janey thinks he is.
Great - tons data from the Iowa Caucus; she'll use it, I think. Okay let's take a quick peek over at general election info...yep, stuff she might have? Robertson cultural references, starting with the famous Tool song "Prison Sex", the great HBO movie "Game Change"...file that under "maybe" and check back later.
Everything else? Fucking dull as dishwater.
Okay onto the fun blade...
....clack clack clack goes the keyboard....
...all right, we're in business!
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From the laptop of Mark Biggs, last accessed on September 23rd, 11:55 AM:
Excerpts from "Do You Know The Enemy? (written on November 14th)" by Dean Chambers, from the website www.thereformweneed.com
A picture of the last real American(and Republican)!
A picture of the last real American(and Republican)!
The 2012 election season has come and gone. Despite my prodigious ability to unskew the media's biased polls, it appears our ticket, headlined by Rick Santorum, the brave and noble Representative from Virginia, and his pick for Vice-President, Governor Haggard of Idaho, has lost. Despite our best efforts, against the ever relentless, renewed, unholy forces of liberalism, socialism, communism, race-baiting and every other type of claptrap modern society has embraced like a drunk on Jonestown Kool-Aid since '88, embodied in the person of antichrist Joe Biden, and his little African voodoo doctor race hustler minion aka the Chicago Machine Governor from Sudan or wherever ACORN's hiding his birth certificate at. Sad, depressing, shameful, etc. Oh, I guess President Romney lost, too. Who didn't see that one coming?
Well, my friends around the country, like you, I remember the promises of "Hope and Change" President Romney offered to us real conservatives in his grand bargain. He turned out to be just another tepid Republican. I remember what it was like at the beginning: He courted us, said we were special, said it was time to bridge the divide between the two great wings of conservatism. We supported him because he promised to clean up the tainted Edwards Administration and persuaded the Reform Party that he and his ilk should be defeated at all costs, so a temporary reunion was necessary to expedite the process. We didn't even nominate a Reform slate at the convention back in '08 we were so convinced!
We all know what's happened since. Technocracy - the GOP's only calling card since the Split of '92 - took over. Romney shut us out! Or only gave us minor Cabinet posts. While the ones that could reshape the nation to what it was during the glorious Reagan years were sidelined, including my hero(and close personal friend), Representative Rick Santorum. Why was Romney surprised when we did nothing in '10 to help him during the midterms? Why was he even more shocked when we decided to resume our conventions and nominate our own candidates when the 2012 elections rolled around? And what did they do? They tried sabotaging us every step of the way, all while ignoring how Dupe Biden and his pet were planning their insidious assault on America through the electoral process(a process I'm convinced they corrupted!).
Now comes the hand-wringing, the fingerpointing, the screaming, the yelling, all of it between the real conservatives in the Reform Party as to why we failed. Let's get one truth out of the way, and it may shock you: I'm not blaming liberals for defeating us. Oh no, not this time. They're united, good - no, great - at messaging and have a reliable base that comes out and votes in presidential elections. This time around I'm blaming us for going back(albeit temporarily) to the Republican Party, the party of those worthless cuckservatives, for once again using us, foiling us, mocking us(who could forget President Romney's "47% of Reform supporters are literally insane" line from a GOP fundraiser?) at every turn, like they did back in 1988, when the great Pat Robertson was running.
Its always the Republican Party - those worthless shitheads. Nor have they been the same since 1988 when God in his infinite wisdom culled Bush, Dole and Kemp from the party(and Earth) to send the rest of it a message: "a great and terrible tribulation is coming; only the holy and righteous men can weather this storm, lead the party, and redeem America from what is coming. My chosen vessel to save my chosen people? Pat Robertson." Suffice to say, the so-called "Grand Old Party"(likely in league with Satan) decided to disregard the facts and only tepidly support the good reverend. This, despite the rallies and enthusiasm he generated each and every place he visited in real America! Hundreds of thousands of people came! Lives were changed! It was like a Third Great Awakening! But what did the Republican establishment do with all this energy to see proud American traditionalism restored to its rightful place in society? All but sit on their hands, do nothing, and let that odious peacenik Democrat win while claiming they were "100% behind Robertson!".....
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=+1] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Yes, I had to repudiate [Jerry Falwell] in public. But he's absolutely correct! We have imagined ourselves invulnerable and have been consumed by the pursuit of ... health, wealth, material pleasures and abnormal sexuality... It [the deaths] is happening because God Almighty is lifting his protection from us. I think I'm the one to restore that protection."
- Pat Robertson, speaking to his son Gordon after a campaign event in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he gave a speech promising to be "kindlier and gentler and truly embrace the teachings of Jesus and everything he stood for, away from the hate-mongers who profess to be men of Jesus". He would go back on his word days later at a heated campaign event in [/FONT]Juneau, Alaska.
- Pat Robertson, speaking to his son Gordon after a campaign event in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he gave a speech promising to be "kindlier and gentler and truly embrace the teachings of Jesus and everything he stood for, away from the hate-mongers who profess to be men of Jesus". He would go back on his word days later at a heated campaign event in [/FONT]Juneau, Alaska.
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Orville_third
Banned
So fringers gonna fringe. Reform will shift to the far right. The religious right will abandon the Republicans.
Quick bites - there be spoilers here
SPOILER ALERT: Yes, the Biden/Obama ticket did defeat the incumbents, President Willard "Mitt" Romney and Vice President [NAME REDACTED], in the 2012 general election after his grand "compassionate" conservative(Republican/Reform) coalition spilt apart in a very acrimonious manner similar to what happened a generation ago. But to Reformists like Dean Chambers, its acceptable, given they believe Romney was against them all along if not actively betraying their trust for votes since the schism.
SPOILER ALERT: Yes, the Biden/Obama ticket did defeat the incumbents, President Willard "Mitt" Romney and Vice President [NAME REDACTED], in the 2012 general election after his grand "compassionate" conservative(Republican/Reform) coalition spilt apart in a very acrimonious manner similar to what happened a generation ago. But to Reformists like Dean Chambers, its acceptable, given they believe Romney was against them all along if not actively betraying their trust for votes since the schism.
Japhy
Banned
Its certainly an interesting glimpse into a third party system in the US. Unity Tickets certainly being something that would be attempted, even if they're only going to end with the results Mitten's has gotten. Reform was certainly the zeitgeist word of the time so IMO it works even with it being a Religious Right Party rather than some sort of vaguely centrist Perotism we got IOTL.
In a few places, its certainly worked and in others? The GOP has come to regret partnering with Reform to topple Democrats. For the latter, I might pull a popular kid thing to do here and work an AH vignette on the "Adventures of Governor Ted Haggard" showing how such a Republican/Reform unity ticket plays out before the Santorum-Haggard ticket fails ITTL's 2012 presidential election after I finish Robertson '88.
Japhy said:
All will be revealed towards the end. What can I share with you, though, is you aren't far off the mark; think closer to how EdT has taken OTL's terminology and turned or twisted it on it's head to mean something else, but eerily similar.
Chapter 5: The Oncoming Storm(Part I)
"I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either. This time we can prevent more of these problems by electing Pat Robertson President!"
- House Minority Whip Trent Lott while delivering a speech at the 1988 Republican National Convention
To: Mark Biggs <mbiggs@csu.edu> Read at 10:11 AM 9/24/2014
CC:
Subject: Thank you sweetie!
Mark,
I don't know when you'll read this this morning but I wanted to tell you:
Not only did you step up and be a man who gives a damn, you provided me with tons of interesting and informative articles relating to Pat Robertson's campaign that weren't repackaged clips episodes of "Antiquity's Aliens"! Wow! We can really use these! The articles from Reform Party crazy people...I mean, members like Dean Chambers, Michelle Bachmann, Curtis Jackson and Kurt Cameron were a nice touch, too! Glad to see our talk from a few days ago inspired you to drop the games and get to work!
Don't worry about going over them - I'm doing it now while I'm writing you this email. What I need from you sweetie is to look up newspaper articles and not just any newspaper articles either(I will castrate you in your sleep if you provide me letters to the editor! jk! =P): I want you to gather up any articles you can find from 1988 during the few months it was Robertson v du Pont, then Robertson v Gore(and please no articles on the Dukakis disaster! I can only handle reading up on so many deaths for so long during the day). I'm curious to see how the suddenly truncated primary race affected endorsements and how those endorsements either helped or hindered Robertson. Same in the general election. Also, don't worry about doing it immediately today. Any time over the next couple days will be fine. No need to rush, loverboy.
Ah, crapbaskets, Professor Hardy's coming over, better get back to Women in Literature and Film before she sees I'm not taking notes for her class! I love you and see you at 1(maybe lunch if a girl can dream?)
Janey
Newspaper articles? Janey, baby, it's easy, so easy, in fact, I could get it done with plenty of time to spare and send Jae-sang a message or two about the new DLP about Robin Stark storming the Streamlands....
....whoa. Okay, not gonna think about games just yet. Gotta focus and focus on newspaper articles.
Let's see.....
From the laptop of Mark Biggs, started on September 25th, 2014 9:06 AM, last accessed on September 25th, 12:05 PM:
"I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either. This time we can prevent more of these problems by electing Pat Robertson President!"
- House Minority Whip Trent Lott while delivering a speech at the 1988 Republican National Convention
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From: Jane Woodman <jwoodman@csu.edu> Sent at 9:30 AM 9/24/2014
To: Mark Biggs <mbiggs@csu.edu> Read at 10:11 AM 9/24/2014
CC:
Subject: Thank you sweetie!
Mark,
I don't know when you'll read this this morning but I wanted to tell you:
I am so, so, so proud of you!
Not only did you step up and be a man who gives a damn, you provided me with tons of interesting and informative articles relating to Pat Robertson's campaign that weren't repackaged clips episodes of "Antiquity's Aliens"! Wow! We can really use these! The articles from Reform Party crazy people...I mean, members like Dean Chambers, Michelle Bachmann, Curtis Jackson and Kurt Cameron were a nice touch, too! Glad to see our talk from a few days ago inspired you to drop the games and get to work!
Don't worry about going over them - I'm doing it now while I'm writing you this email. What I need from you sweetie is to look up newspaper articles and not just any newspaper articles either(I will castrate you in your sleep if you provide me letters to the editor! jk! =P): I want you to gather up any articles you can find from 1988 during the few months it was Robertson v du Pont, then Robertson v Gore(and please no articles on the Dukakis disaster! I can only handle reading up on so many deaths for so long during the day). I'm curious to see how the suddenly truncated primary race affected endorsements and how those endorsements either helped or hindered Robertson. Same in the general election. Also, don't worry about doing it immediately today. Any time over the next couple days will be fine. No need to rush, loverboy.
Ah, crapbaskets, Professor Hardy's coming over, better get back to Women in Literature and Film before she sees I'm not taking notes for her class! I love you and see you at 1(maybe lunch if a girl can dream?)
Janey
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Newspaper articles? Janey, baby, it's easy, so easy, in fact, I could get it done with plenty of time to spare and send Jae-sang a message or two about the new DLP about Robin Stark storming the Streamlands....
....whoa. Okay, not gonna think about games just yet. Gotta focus and focus on newspaper articles.
Let's see.....
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From the laptop of Mark Biggs, started on September 25th, 2014 9:06 AM, last accessed on September 25th, 12:05 PM:
Newspaper endorsement research for Janey:
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Primary season: du Pont vs Robertson: newspaper endorsements
- Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Make no mistake, the Republican field has been rocked to its very core by the succession of untimely deaths over the last few months in the form of the Vice President, Senator Dole, and Representative Kemp. Who's left? Who will succeed Reagan and help the Republican Party push America in the 21st century and beyond? Certainly not Pat Robertson: a firebrand televangelist who has used the deaths of his more distinguished ex-competition to build an unseemly, almost apocalyptic-sounding campaign full of heated rhetoric focused on what appears to be solely terrorizing many innocent Americans for the crime of being different and holding or adhering to values and beliefs Robertson and his supporters don't. We also note he hasn't distanced himself from the truly hateful words of his compatriot and fellow tevelangelist, Jerry Falwell, spewed out on the Larry King show back in February. Can the already shaky Republican Party honestly be considering such a man who agrees another who says, "I know that I'll hear from them for this. But secularists and their allies, with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy millions of little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say,"You helped make this happen."? No, the GOP shouldn't. Every day Pat Robertson delays denouncing him, is another day wherein it's proved he shouldn't be president at all; we need a president who can unite us, not conduct the 20th century version of the Inquisition. While we were disappointed rumored replacements such as Howard Baker or Dan Quayle would run, there is, fortunately, for the Republican Party(and America) a candidate left who can succeed Reagan: Governor du Pont. His record in the state of Delaware proves he's capable of leadership but maturity and clarity that isn't appealing to the kind of demagoguery we've witnessed from the Robertson campaign so far...."
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From the laptop of Mark Biggs, started on September 25th, 2014 9:06 AM, last accessed on September 26th, 1:25 AM:
Newspaper endorsement research for Janey:
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"Pat Robertson genuinely thinks we hate America."
- James Carville remarking on a campaign speech Robertson made during the August 7th rally in Juneau, Alaska.
General election season: Gore vs Robertson
- Cleveland Plain Dealer: "The two candidates, Albert Gore and Marion "Pat" Robertson, have during the course of this election, shown the voters the most stark contrasts in their respective visions of America's future we've ever seen. Which is why on November 8th, voters must choose the better leader. That choice is by far and away Al Gore. On one hand, Gore, the Democratic candidate, has run on a centrist platform, while offering leadership and the prospect of real change that will re-position the nation's economy toward the 21st century. He also seems alone in either of the major party's choices to make the nation safer, stronger and greater. On the other hand, the Republicans' dark horse, Robertson, has run a campaign of baffling misquotes, unsettling religious furor, bizarre debate performances, emotional slogans, negative slogans, heated words and outright demagoguery and hostility towards large swathes of Americans who happen to differ with him and his ilk on the topics of the environment, abortion, civil rights and religious issues; the latter of which hasn't changed since we endorsed his last major rival back in March. He's also shown next to no competency in the realm of international affairs - look no further than his troubling comments on South Africa. On top of this, selecting Senator Dan Quayle as his vice presidential pick might be one of the biggest mistakes in his political life. Yes, we've lived with abysmal vice presidents before, but has abysmal been the rule up and down the ticket? We as a people can not risk it...."
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"Pat Robertson genuinely thinks we hate America."
- James Carville remarking on a campaign speech Robertson made during the August 7th rally in Juneau, Alaska.
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