TheWiseOldFart

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart   What will happen tomorrow in a courtroom would h ave had a far different response 40 -60 years ago.   In 1960 John F. Kennedy faced the stigma of being a mem ber of the Catholic Church. This single issue made the general election a much closer race than it should have been.   In 1988, after four years of Ronald Reagan’s wars on the working class, minorities, and women, along with a failed fiscal policy which placed our nation deeply in debt, a handsome and popular senator from Colorado was poised to defeat George H . W. Bush and become our nation’s 41 st president.   However, when it was discovered that Gary Hart had a mistress, by the name of Donna Rice, he dropped out of the race. He reentered but when he only received four percent of the vote in New Hampshire, he permanently ended his campaign.   In 1992 Republicans discovered an alleged affair between the Democratic nominee, Bill Clinton, and Gennifer Flowers.   The election became a contest between

Op-ed by TheWiseOld Fart   In 1989 Reagan left office. Our country was in debt for more than one-trillion dollars. His ludicrous fiscal policy of “supply side economics,” better known as “trickle-down economics,” put money in the pockets of the super-rich, while stagnating the economic growth of the working class. This led to a huge national debt thanks to diminshing tax revenue from those who could most easily afford to pay their fair share.   His Republican successor, Vice-President George H.W. Bush, continued this failed policy and was subsequently forced out of office after one term.   Enter Democrat William Jefferson Clinton in 1993. When he left the White House in 2001, the national debt was eradicated, and America’s national treasury experienced a surplus of funds.   His successor should have been Vice-President Al Gore, who would have continued efforts to grow the economy for all Americans, but a politically biased Supreme Court illegally interfered in the election process an