Letters to the Editor
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To Majorajam, Just This Once
You respond to my post as follows: "Oh, fyi, in case your chronology is a bit rusty, Regan was initially elected over 25 years ago, hence, I would imagine your linking Obama's comments about Regan's personal optimism and the environment of the 1970s to the 2000 election. Good. God."
My comment on the 2000 election was in response to a statement, which I quoted, by Obama: "I think it’s fair to say that the Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last 10 to 15 years in the sense that they were challenging conventional wisdom.”
If I subtract 10 to 15 years from the current year, I get 1993 to 1998, meaning the period of which Obama speaks as the period in which the Republicans were the party of ideas spans either 1993 or 1998 to 2008. As I calculate, the 2000 election occurred during either of those periods. That seems to mean that Obama thinks Bush won that election because he represented the party of ideas. I thought the big idea in that election came from Katherine Harris, and then from Antonin Scalia. It had to do with how to count votes. It was a pretty big idea, one supposes. I, myself, preferred Gore's ideas.