Reply #16: It was a wonderful start, but to me he sold out too many times

[hedgehog]

Instead of standing and fighting, he kept caving to the Establishment guys who knew better than the "hick from the sticks". The shakers and movers who went on to form the DLC just played him. It was a terrible waste of a good man. I can't help but feel that Mondale helped drag him down. Jimmy lost me when he reinstituted the Selective Service. He's the reason that all boys have to sign up when they turn 18 just in case we need to roll out the draft overnight.

Get ready to flame me - but at least Jummy didn't cave as fasat as Bill Clinton. All in all, Clintin was probably the best republican president we ever had. So-called welfare reform, NAFTA, such unwavering support for gays in the military etc. etc.