When Bad Things Happen To Good Candidates |
| Published: May 24, 2008, 9:00 am |
| Tags: 2008 presidential race |
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Well, it seems that pretty much everyone's all a-dither about Hillary Clinton mentioning the assassination of Robert Kennedy back in 1968 when discussing why she's staying in the race. Some say it was tactless and graceless; others see it as a veiled threat. I don't. I tend to take the historic view on such things, and in her own ham-handed way, Hillary was making a very valid point: sometimes bad things happen to leading candidates, and we'd be wise to make preparations for such events. For example, in 1992 Ross Perot was making a very credible bid for the presidency on his own third-party ticket when he couldn't contain his inner wigginess any longer and self-destructed in a most spectacular fashion. He ended up proving a spoiler in that race, tipping the balance to Bill Clinton, but after his dust-up with the NAACP he never really recovered. In 1988, Gary Hart was the Democratic frontrunner when he finally decided to address the questions about his marital infidelity and [ Full article ] |
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