Brown doesn't make Jessie Jackson Gaffe in 1992

So the Democratic primaries in 1992 came down to Clinton v. Jerry Brown, who ran a really good campaign. He looked poised to win Wisconsin and New York to over take Clinton until he screwed the pooch with NY's Jewish population by declaring that Jessie Jackson could potentially be his VP. He crashed and burned from there on out after losing the two primaries. What if he had not made that mistake and managed to keep pace with Clinton? Could he have won? If not, could he have been powerful enough to get a VP spot?
 
I don't that's what sank Brown. I was kinda leaning toward Brown in '92. I was totally into his modified Hall-Rabushka income tax proposal. I would have paid nothing under it.

But the real reason I went for Clinton was that Brown was a "legacy" politician, whereas Clinton had clawed his way to where he was from the humblest white trash origins. And I hope I do not offend anyone here by saying "white trash". I think I have WT-phrase privileges here. My mama was the child of a wandering oilfield worker. She went to third grade in three different schools. My daddy grew up on a farm with eleven kids. They took his shoes away at the end of the school year so that they could be preserved for his younger brother (and maybe his sisters).

Clinton just had the fire. Maybe you had to be a young slacker living 1100 miles from home who was born to parents as bad off as Clinton (and Galveston and Angleton had the same mafia connections Hot Springs did) who managed to claw themselves up to respectability in the 60's through 80's when clawing was more possible than it is today.

Clinton had the fire. As a young voter I could feel it.
 
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