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To those of you who are new to "the Pope" and the "AJATTWC", the following various posts are the official communications of yours truly, Pope John The Tall, or as I'm known in many circles, PJTT.

I aspired to the position of Pope of the AJATTWC several years ago, after the Roman Catholics elected Joseph Ratzinger, a German Cardinal, as their Pope; I figured if he could do it, so could I.

Despite what would seem to be a "religious" theme, I try not to play favorites: I'm satirical/irreverent about everything, in an attempt to give my readers a few yucks; that is the goal. If I haven't made you laugh, well, I tried, and I hope I'm given an "A" for the effort. (Or at least a really solid "C".)

I further hope that my faithful readers (all several of them) and any of you who wander in from the cold of the Internet, will derive much solace and spiritual awakening from my timeless prose, and, as I so often refer to it, the "soothing balm of Johnism"; if you don't, how sad for you, because I'm a pretty funny guy. (My daughter tells me, regularly, that I'm "silly"; I suspect that she's right.)

Please note that everything on my blog is meant to be fun, and in no way insulting to anyone, unless of course you're a politician, then you can assume I intended to insult you. (Hey, it goes with the job, guys; if you can't take the heat, then the harder they fall.)

Never mind.

Anyway, welcome and thanks for stopping by; please feel free to peruse to your heart's content (there is a large archive of my past posts, going back several hundred years, in the right-hand column), and please be sure to make a large donation at the door as you leave. (It's tax-deductible.)

Speaking of leaving, as I make my exit, and probably none too soon, here's something from the Book of Excretions, Apollo 13: Dodgers 6...

"Blessed are the lazy, for although they don't accomplish much, they're well rested."

Enjoy. (Or don't, it's still a free country. It is still a free country, isn't it? They haven't changed that as far as I know, have they?)





Monday, January 21, 2013

Once More, With Feeling This Time

On Saturday, 1/19, I posted the essay "Please God, Never Again" which spoke about the need I feel the Republican Party has in the 2016 Presidential campaign to field a much more moderate, middle-of-the-road candidate, a candidate that can, hopefully, build a coalition of diverse blocs of voters, leading to a GOP victory.

As a follow-up to that post, I offer the following quote, which I will attribute in a moment:

"Polls indicated that a majority of the electorate favored the middle of the road. The Republican right-wingers denied it. They were convinced that out in the country there was a hidden conservative majority. It was, they insisted, the key fact in American politics. Lacking a home, these disgruntled conservatives had scorned both parties. Nominate a genuine conservative, said the...ideologues, and this hidden majority would come swarming into the streets and elect a real American."

The above quote comes from the book "The Glory And The Dream" by William Manchester, the distinguished, award-winning historian. The book was written in 1973, and in this particular chapter, he was discussing the 1964 Presidential election, wherein the GOP nominated Barry Goldwater, one of the most conservative, right-wing candidates ever to run for the Presidency. His opponent was Lyndon Johnson.

The final tally of the popular vote for that year's election was:

Johnson: 43,126,218 or 61% of the votes cast;

Goldwater: 27,174,8998 or 38% of the votes cast.

The Electoral College vote was:

Johnson: 486

Goldwater: 52

Isn't it interesting that no matter how much things seem to change with the passing years, they always seem to stay an awful lot like they were previously?

Love and voting machines,

PJTT

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  1. Paul L. MartinFebruary 18, 2013 at 12:32 PM

    I love to hear Manchester quoted in a current blog post. I know you've read Barbara Tuchman, another of my favorite historians, but now you have Manchester as well. Nicely done, Pope. And yes, the faces and the names change, but the situation doesn't. It is somewhat disheartening to see politicians already positioning themselves for the next election cycle. I'm increasingly cynical about the whole deal.

    But I appreciate your writing, neighbor. Keep up the good work.

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