2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Nicole Wallace: "The Party died in this room tonight" [View all]calimary
(80,693 posts)who'd just been laid off, and was facing a very uncertain future thanks to the bush/cheney economic disaster, but she refused to consider then-candidate Barack Obama, because he didn't wear a flag pin on his lapel? She simply couldn't vote for somebody who didn't wear a flag pin. And she said so, flat out.
She flatly and wholeheartedly rejected a change of leadership AWAY from the catastrophic full-spectrum mess the CONS had A) created and B) were leaving behind, because the Democratic candidate didn't wear a flag pin. Which, btw, wasn't true - he did. A lot. Back then. Once or twice in the beginning, he hadn't gotten into the habit yet. But THAT alone, because he hadn't worn a flag pin that day, disqualified him.
Sad. And utterly pathetic.