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Title: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Reaganfan on August 10, 2007, 02:23:23 AM
I can't think of when it was the last time that an anti-war candidate won a Presidential election during wartime? Nixon wasn't anti-war in '68....Reagan wasn't anti-war in '84.....Bush wasn't anti-war in '04....


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Smash255 on August 10, 2007, 02:29:07 AM
Typical Naso Hackery.   And the last time a pro-war candidate won when 2/3 of the country wanted out of the war was........


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Reaganfan on August 10, 2007, 02:29:42 AM
Typical Naso Hackery.   And the last time a pro-war candidate won when 2/3 of the country wanted out of the war was........

Thanks for sliding the question!


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Smash255 on August 10, 2007, 02:42:28 AM
Typical Naso Hackery.   And the last time a pro-war candidate won when 2/3 of the country wanted out of the war was........

Thanks for sliding the question!

Interesting coming from someone who never answers anyone else's question.  Regardless you seemed to be using this as a way to suggest the GOP will win in 08 because an anti-war candidate hasn't won during a war while completely ignoring the fact no pro-war candidate has ever won during a war as unpopular as this one.

Generally the questions, you ignore are legit, this is just retarded.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: DanielX on August 10, 2007, 02:43:44 AM
Typical Naso Hackery.   And the last time a pro-war candidate won when 2/3 of the country wanted out of the war was........

1864! ;)


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Reaganfan on August 10, 2007, 02:47:12 AM
Typical Naso Hackery.   And the last time a pro-war candidate won when 2/3 of the country wanted out of the war was........

Thanks for sliding the question!

Interesting coming from someone who never answers anyone else's question.  Regardless you seemed to be using this as a way to suggest the GOP will win in 08 because an anti-war candidate hasn't won during a war while completely ignoring the fact no pro-war candidate has ever won during a war as unpopular as this one.

Generally the questions, you ignore are legit, this is just retarded.

HAHA...I love how you use an opinion as an answer. "A war as unpopular as this one" ... I doubt this is as unpopular as Vietnam or Korea and by the way...a pro-war candidate (Eisenhower and Nixon) both won during those unpopular wars.

So, would you like to try again, pal?


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Smash255 on August 10, 2007, 03:05:26 AM
Typical Naso Hackery.   And the last time a pro-war candidate won when 2/3 of the country wanted out of the war was........

Thanks for sliding the question!

Interesting coming from someone who never answers anyone else's question.  Regardless you seemed to be using this as a way to suggest the GOP will win in 08 because an anti-war candidate hasn't won during a war while completely ignoring the fact no pro-war candidate has ever won during a war as unpopular as this one.

Generally the questions, you ignore are legit, this is just retarded.

HAHA...I love how you use an opinion as an answer. "A war as unpopular as this one" ... I doubt this is as unpopular as Vietnam or Korea and by the way...a pro-war candidate (Eisenhower and Nixon) both won during those unpopular wars.

So, would you like to try again, pal?

Neither Korea in 1952, nor Vietnam in 1968 were as unpopular as Iraq is now.  Neither Stvenston or Humphrey were exactly anti-war candidates either.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Gabu on August 10, 2007, 03:17:13 AM
HAHA...I love how you use an opinion as an answer. "A war as unpopular as this one" ... I doubt this is as unpopular as Vietnam or Korea and by the way...a pro-war candidate (Eisenhower and Nixon) both won during those unpopular wars.

So, would you like to try again, pal?

In 1952, Eisenhower promised to end (and did get a cease-fire in) the Korean War.

In 1968, Humphrey's main problem in his campaign was that America was still in Vietnam, and he received a massive boost to his campaign when President Johnson announced a bombing halt and a possible peace deal.

If you're going to try to bolster your position, these are not exactly the best example to pick.  In 1952, the Democratic candidate was severely dragged down by an unpopular war started by a Democratic president.  In 1968, the Democratic candidate was severely dragged down by an unpopular war started by a Democratic president.  If we're going to assume that history will repeat itself, then fill in the blanks: "In 2008, the ________ candidate will be severely dragged down by an unpopular war started by a ________ president."

Would you like to try again?


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ on August 10, 2007, 03:20:47 AM

Which war was this? Unless are you counting the situation where Reagan cut and ran from Lebanon after terrorists killed 243 Marines? I have a cousin who was in the Marines there, and he still hates Reagan for how he handled that.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Reaganfan on August 10, 2007, 03:34:16 AM

Which war was this? Unless are you counting the situation where Reagan cut and ran from Lebanon after terrorists killed 243 Marines? I have a cousin who was in the Marines there, and he still hates Reagan for how he handled that.

I'm talking about the Cold War...by the way....which side were you on during the Cold War??


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Gabu on August 10, 2007, 03:39:14 AM
I thank Mike Naso for his acknowledgement that I made a good point and that he found himself unable to adequately rebut my statement.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: minionofmidas on August 10, 2007, 04:23:21 AM
Typical Naso Hackery.   And the last time a pro-war candidate won when 2/3 of the country wanted out of the war was........

Thanks for sliding the question!

Interesting coming from someone who never answers anyone else's question.  Regardless you seemed to be using this as a way to suggest the GOP will win in 08 because an anti-war candidate hasn't won during a war while completely ignoring the fact no pro-war candidate has ever won during a war as unpopular as this one.

Generally the questions, you ignore are legit, this is just retarded.

HAHA...I love how you use an opinion as an answer. "A war as unpopular as this one" ... I doubt this is as unpopular as Vietnam or Korea and by the way...a pro-war candidate (Eisenhower and Nixon) both won during those unpopular wars.

So, would you like to try again, pal?

Neither Korea in 1952, nor Vietnam in 1968 were as unpopular as Iraq is now.  Neither Stvenston or Humphrey were exactly anti-war candidates either.
Nixon was kind of anti war in 1968.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Reaganfan on August 10, 2007, 06:37:13 AM
Nixon was kind of anti war in 1968.

Not really. Infact, Governors Romney, Rockefeller and Reagan ran against Nixon in 1968 for the GOP nomination as the anti-war Republicans. Nixon was not anti-war.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Verily on August 10, 2007, 06:53:08 AM
Nixon was kind of anti war in 1968.

Not really. Infact, Governors Romney, Rockefeller and Reagan ran against Nixon in 1968 for the GOP nomination as the anti-war Republicans. Nixon was not anti-war.

He wasn't anti-war in his heart-of-hearts, but nor is Hillary Clinton. He did, however, campaign strongly against the war during his presidential campaign. Humphrey's promise to Johnson not to campaign against the war would have made 1968 a landslide had Johnson not recanted in the last few months.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: StateBoiler on August 10, 2007, 08:46:08 AM
I would say Nixon in 1968, as he ran on getting us out of Vietnam. If anyone wants to argue that, fine, it doesn't change the reality of 39 years ago though.

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Nixon promised peace with honor, and, though never claiming to be able to win the war, Nixon did say that "new leadership will end the war and win the peace in the Pacific". He did not explain in detail his plans to end the war in Vietnam, causing Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey to allege that he must have had some "secret plan." Nixon didn't invent the phrase, but because he did not disavow the term, it soon became part of the campaign. In his memoirs, Nixon wrote that he actually had no such plan.

Once in office, he proposed the Nixon Doctrine, a strategy of replacing American troops with the Vietnamese troops, also called "Vietnamization". In July 1969, he visited South Vietnam, and met with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with U.S. military commanders. American involvement in the war declined steadily until all American troops were gone in 1973.

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The Nixon Doctrine was put forth in a press conference in Guam on July 25, 1969 by Richard Nixon. He stated that the United States henceforth expected its allies to take care of their own military defense. The Doctrine argued for the pursuit of peace through a partnership with American allies.

In Nixon's own words (Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam November 3, 1969):

First, the United States will keep all of its treaty commitments.
Second, we shall provide a shield if a nuclear power threatens the freedom of a nation allied with us or of a nation whose survival we consider vital to our security.
Third, in cases involving other types of aggression, we shall furnish military and economic assistance when requested in accordance with our treaty commitments. But we shall look to the nation directly threatened to assume the primary responsibility of providing the manpower for its defense.

You could make an argument for Warren Harding in 1920, who ran anti-League of Nations and all our interventionism Wilson had us in with World War I. So that's "anti-war" of a sort.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: SPC on August 10, 2007, 10:10:48 AM
Eisenhower promised to end the Korean War in 1952.
Nixon promised "Peace with Honor" in 1968.
Bush was pro-war in 2004, but so was his opponent.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Gabu on August 10, 2007, 12:40:21 PM
And now, with his arguments hopelessly crushed, Mike Naso will never be seen again in this topic, tacitly admitting defeat. :P


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Reaganfan on August 10, 2007, 12:54:35 PM
And now, with his arguments hopelessly crushed, Mike Naso will never be seen again in this topic, tacitly admitting defeat. :P

I'm sorry, are you an American?

In all seriousness, my point stands. The 2008 Democrats are staunchly anti-war...especially Obama and Edwards...and so is the base. If the race is between pro-choice pro-war Hillary and pro-choice pro-war Giuliani...it will be interesting.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: SPC on August 10, 2007, 01:01:45 PM
And now, with his arguments hopelessly crushed, Mike Naso will never be seen again in this topic, tacitly admitting defeat. :P

I'm sorry, are you an American?

In all seriousness, my point stands. The 2008 Democrats are staunchly anti-war...especially Obama and Edwards...and so is the base. If the race is between pro-choice pro-war Hillary and pro-choice pro-war Giuliani...it will be interesting.

Your point doesn't stand. I've aleady proven that the anti-war candidate won in 52 and 68, and the main reason they didn't win in 2004 is because none of the anti-war candidates (Badnarik, Cobb, Peroutka, and Nader) were endorsed by a major party. However, it is worth pointing out that only Kucinich, Gravel, and Paul are genuinely anti-war. The rest are only pretending to be for political reasons.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자) on August 10, 2007, 01:13:19 PM
Wilson - 1916 - "He kept us out of war."

FDR - 1940 - "I tell you again and again and again I will not send your sons into a foreign war."


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: riceowl on August 10, 2007, 01:14:56 PM

Which war was this? Unless are you counting the situation where Reagan cut and ran from Lebanon after terrorists killed 243 Marines? I have a cousin who was in the Marines there, and he still hates Reagan for how he handled that.

I'm talking about the Cold War...by the way....which side were you on during the Cold War??

hahahaha....so Carter was pro-war too then?  Kennedy?


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: SPC on August 10, 2007, 01:16:16 PM

Which war was this? Unless are you counting the situation where Reagan cut and ran from Lebanon after terrorists killed 243 Marines? I have a cousin who was in the Marines there, and he still hates Reagan for how he handled that.

I'm talking about the Cold War...by the way....which side were you on during the Cold War??

Ummmmm, the Cold War wasn't an actual war.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: they don't love you like i love you on August 10, 2007, 01:28:15 PM
Of course not, it's just typical Naso hackery logic.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Jeff from NC on August 10, 2007, 01:33:46 PM
In 2004 someone said: "The taller candidate has always won."  In 2000, it was "The winner of the popular vote has almost always won the electoral college."  In 1996, it was "No democrat since WW2 has won a second full term."  In 1988, they said "No sitting vice-president has won the White House since Martin van Buren."

History is a tricky temptress.  Trite historical analogies don't fly when it comes to today's politics.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: YRABNNRM on August 10, 2007, 03:22:41 PM

LOL

Gabu owns Naso so Naso resorts to the "OMG U RNT AMERCAN SO YOUR OPINION DONT MATTR@!!!" argument.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Citizen James on August 10, 2007, 04:05:27 PM

Which war was this? Unless are you counting the situation where Reagan cut and ran from Lebanon after terrorists killed 243 Marines? I have a cousin who was in the Marines there, and he still hates Reagan for how he handled that.

I'm talking about the Cold War...by the way....which side were you on during the Cold War??

Kid, you're too young to remember the cold war.   Though I wonder which side you would have been on - had you been born in a different decade and nation.  Given your affinity for hardcore authoritarianism, you probably would have made an excellent Soviet communist - never questioning the party line and shaming your comrades while they drank their vodka and muttered about the miserable working conditions.    Da?

*You do realize that the neo-conservative movement you follow was born out of Trotskyism, don't you? 

** You do also remember who claimed that political power flowed out of the barrel of a gun, comrade.  Don't you.   Stripped of labels, he might also be a hero of yours given your authoritarian mindset.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Smash255 on August 11, 2007, 01:25:59 AM

LOL

Gabu owns Naso so Naso resorts to the "OMG U RNT AMERCAN SO YOUR OPINION DONT MATTR@!!!" argument.

What else would you expect from Naso.  Anytime someone points out a fact that goes against his idiotic thought process he completely posts something irrelevent to the point made or doesn't respond at all.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Nym90 on August 11, 2007, 01:38:45 AM
In 2004 someone said: "The taller candidate has always won."  In 2000, it was "The winner of the popular vote has almost always won the electoral college."  In 1996, it was "No democrat since WW2 has won a second full term."  In 1988, they said "No sitting vice-president has won the White House since Martin van Buren."

History is a tricky temptress.  Trite historical analogies don't fly when it comes to today's politics.

Very true. Call it the Sesame Street school of thought in political analysis....each of these things is like one of the others.....the idea that we need to figure out which past election the current election is like, and that will tell us what's going to happen.

The reality is that each election is unique, and the issues, candidates, and campaigns can never be and never are duplicated.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: they don't love you like i love you on August 11, 2007, 12:25:14 PM
Another question:

When's the last time a candidate of the party of the President during an unpopular war won?


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Bay Ridge, Bklyn! Born and Bred on August 11, 2007, 12:26:26 PM


Interesting coming from someone who never answers anyone else's question.  Regardless you seemed to be using this as a way to suggest the GOP will win in 08 because an anti-war candidate hasn't won during a war while completely ignoring the fact no pro-war candidate has ever won during a war as unpopular as this one.

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um, ever heard of the Vietnam War?


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: they don't love you like i love you on August 11, 2007, 04:28:58 PM
Nixon did not run as a pro-war candidate. He promised that he had a secret plan to end the war. Humphrey was seen as more pro-war initially due to his refusal to attack LBJ over it, and would've been absolutely crushed if he didn't backtrack on this in the last few weeks.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: King on August 11, 2007, 04:59:08 PM
I can't think of when it was the last time that an anti-war candidate won a Presidential election during wartime? Nixon wasn't anti-war in '68....Reagan wasn't anti-war in '84.....Bush wasn't anti-war in '04....

The whole message of Nixon's '68 campaign was Democrats got us into a sh**tty war and promised to end it.

Another question:

When's the last time a candidate of the party of the President during an unpopular won?

You could say George W. wasn't too popular in 2004.  Hard to tell; there weren't approval rating polls back in the 20s when the Republicans won three straight presidential elections with three different candidates (Harding, Coolidge, Hoover).


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Smash255 on August 12, 2007, 01:59:00 AM


Interesting coming from someone who never answers anyone else's question.  Regardless you seemed to be using this as a way to suggest the GOP will win in 08 because an anti-war candidate hasn't won during a war while completely ignoring the fact no pro-war candidate has ever won during a war as unpopular as this one.



um, ever heard of the Vietnam War?

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I see you ignored the rest of the thread.  For starters nixon did NOT run as a pro-war candidate, he in fact blamed the Democrats for the War.  Humphrey did not run as an anti-war candidate.  Also while Vietnam was unpopular in 1968, it was mostly confined to the liberal wing of the party, it wasn't till a year or two later that moderates views on the war dropped to the anti-war levels they currently have on Iraq. 


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: they don't love you like i love you on August 12, 2007, 02:12:01 AM
You could say George W. wasn't too popular in 2004.  Hard to tell; there weren't approval rating polls back in the 20s when the Republicans won three straight presidential elections with three different candidates (Harding, Coolidge, Hoover).

Typo, I meant unpopular WAR.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ on August 12, 2007, 03:17:44 AM
Hmm, one interesting thing about Reagan's foreign policy around 1984, is that's around when the United States became the only country found guilty of terrorism, thanks to Reagan's actions in Nicaragua. That war isn't exactly the kind of thing to bring up if you want to pretend that pro-war Republicans are somehow anti-terrorism.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Nym90 on August 12, 2007, 07:41:36 AM
Another question:

When's the last time a candidate of the party of the President during an unpopular war won?

Never, although in fairness the sample size is pretty small. The only such elections in the history of polling are 1952 and 1968, but both times the incumbent party candidate did indeed lose.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: they don't love you like i love you on August 12, 2007, 12:39:50 PM
Another question:

When's the last time a candidate of the party of the President during an unpopular war won?

Never, although in fairness the sample size is pretty small. The only such elections in the history of polling are 1952 and 1968, but both times the incumbent party candidate did indeed lose.

Yes, but those are basically the examples Naso is using as "proof" an anti-war candidate can never win. Of course he never explains why he's so sure America will never elect an anti-war candidate, even during an unpopular war.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: they don't love you like i love you on July 16, 2009, 12:57:29 AM
This is a rather amusing thread.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Хahar 🤔 on July 16, 2009, 01:42:43 AM

Which war was this? Unless are you counting the situation where Reagan cut and ran from Lebanon after terrorists killed 243 Marines? I have a cousin who was in the Marines there, and he still hates Reagan for how he handled that.

I'm talking about the Cold War...by the way....which side were you on during the Cold War??

Kid, you're too young to remember the cold war.   Though I wonder which side you would have been on - had you been born in a different decade and nation.  Given your affinity for hardcore authoritarianism, you probably would have made an excellent Soviet communist - never questioning the party line and shaming your comrades while they drank their vodka and muttered about the miserable working conditions.    Da?

*You do realize that the neo-conservative movement you follow was born out of Trotskyism, don't you? 

** You do also remember who claimed that political power flowed out of the barrel of a gun, comrade.  Don't you.   Stripped of labels, he might also be a hero of yours given your authoritarian mindset.

Amazingly true post here.

Naso would have been a loyal Marxist-Leninist.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Landslide Lyndon on July 16, 2009, 02:09:59 AM
Suddenly, I feel bad for giving Coburn in 2012 such a hard time.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Eraserhead on July 16, 2009, 12:10:21 PM


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese on July 16, 2009, 08:17:44 PM
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When it was the last time that an anti-war candidate won a Presidential election during wartime?

I know!

2008 ;)

Old threads are so funny.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: Bo on May 20, 2010, 05:56:39 PM
1968. Nixon ran as the anti-war candidate before Humphrey did.


Title: Re: Last time an anti-war candidate won a Presidential race in wartime?
Post by: yougo1000 on May 22, 2010, 07:59:11 AM
1968. Nixon ran as the anti-war candidate before Humphrey did.

What the h*ll did you bump this for