Always Republican Tom wants to conflate how Mondale campaigned (with no actual political power) and Reagan’s failure to act for 8 years (as the most powerful man in America.)
Reagan’s failure of leadership results in actual loss of human life. Mondale “failing” to campaign on the issue does not.
David Avallone
You guys can tap-dance all day, but two men competed for the same office at the same time.
Both were silent on the same issue.
I'd argue that it's even ickier for the guy who accepted his nomination in the epicenter of the epidemic, but many of you seem okay with that kind of expediency. /1
I think you may have run out of arguments in this one, Tom, if this is all you’ve got.
It is possible to admire Reagan and also to concede that his approach to AIDS was a failure of leadership. He could have acted - at no political cost - and he didn’t because he didn’t care to.
That’s the truth.
