Thomas Dewey was a Conservative?
The Conservative wing of the GOP "was the dominant part of the Party"? IN THE 1940s and 1950s? SINCE WHEN ? According to WHOM...you?
I don't drink anything containing caffeine and perhaps before you keep looking for that mote in my eye,you sholuld remove that forest of trees from your own! And factual,non-revisionist history is your friend....LEARN SOME! ;^)
They were chosen at the convention after running in the primaries. They had to win delegates and Ike was a write in candidate in NH where he beat Taft.
Thomas Dewey was a Conservative?
Who is talking about Dewey?
Dewey was a Rockafeller Republican (RINO).
The conservatives were gaing control of the Party (as they did with Goldwater and Reagan), but Ike by-passed the grassroot conservative wing that supported Taft and got nominated instead.
The Conservative wing of the GOP "was the dominant part of the Party"? IN THE 1940s and 1950s? SINCE WHEN ? According to WHOM...you?
It was becoming so under Taft (we had control of the Congress in 1948-1950 and there was a strong anti-Commnunist element moving it.
That conservative movement was setback by Ike's win and did not reappear until Goldwater in 1960 and then became the dominant force under Reagan in 1980 (after battling with Ford and Rockerfeller in 1976)
Any other posters out there who know the GOP political history of the last 50 years please feel free to jump in with any comments or criticism's
I don't drink anything containing caffeine and perhaps before you keep looking for that mote in my eye,you sholuld remove that forest of trees from your own! And factual,non-revisionist history is your friend....LEARN SOME! ;^)
Well if it isn't caffine then it must be your own rotten disposition.
As another presidential election approached, Republican Party leaders who supported NATO came to Eisenhower to ask him to run. The party had lost five presidential elections in a row and was now dominated by conservative Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, an isolationist who had voted against NATO.
They feared that Taft would get the nomination and lose the election to President Trumanor, if he won, take the United States out of NATO. Truman strongly supported NATO, but his domestic policies were much too liberal for Eisenhower. Eisenhower became convinced that he had a duty to serve.
In April 1952 Eisenhower announced that he would seek the Republican nomination. A bitter fight for the votes of delegates to the partys national convention ensued between moderates who supported Eisenhower and conservatives who wanted Taft.
Although Eisenhower easily won a majority in state primary elections, the party in most states still selected convention delegates in meetings called caucuses.
Taft supporters controlled the caucuses, and it seemed he would get a majority of the delegates.
At the convention in Chicago, it appeared that 35 of Californias 70 delegates would go to Taft. However, Richard M. Nixon, that states junior senator, prevented that and thereby ensured Eisenhowers nomination. Nixons reward was a spot on the ticket as candidate for vice president.
It looks like Ike stole the nomination to me! LOL!