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Hopefully Reagan broke the 20-year curse that seems to have been following presidents for over 100 years — every president elected on a year divisible by 20 (since 1840, I believe) has either died or been assassinated in office (yes, I know, generally assassination involves dying, but you know what I mean). This attempt on Bush’s life came close, but in all likelihood would not have injured him. Many people in the crowd would likely have been killed, and dozens more injured, but he was far enough away for it to not have been likely to harm him.
Those who have been saying that we’d be better off if Bush was dead should really rethink their position — Bush as a martyr would be just as dangerous to the ideals that kind of raving moonbat holds, if not more so. Also, with the number of nuts that seem to have gravitated to the left end of the political spectrum, it’s quite likely that quite a number of people (including elected officials) would say something after such an assassination about that would reflect poorly on the Democrats, and make future Republican victories even MORE likely. Imagine if Goldwater had said in 1964 that it was good that Kennedy had been assassinated, as it took a man that the Bay of Pigs had proven dangerous out of power. Even FEWER people would have voted for him (which would have been rather a feat, considering his already poor standing in the polls.
Now we’ll just have to see if the Secret Service interviews me for having a long discussion of the political ramifications of a possible Bush assassination. I rather doubt they will, considering the number of moonbats on the internet that have been actively advocating it — if the Secret Service investigated everyone who said something like that online, they’d have no time to eat or sleep.