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That is what Nixon did....excerpt from Jack Wheeler's article, this week:

"I heard Sarah Palin announcing her resignation from the Alaska governorship, I thought of Richard Nixon.

In 1960, he was cheated out of the presidency when Chicago Mayor Richard Daley stuffed enough ballot boxes to give Illinois to Kennedy, and Kennedy's running mate Lyndon Johnson did the same in Texas. In 1962, Nixon ran for governor of California and lost to Democrat Pat Brown by 300,000 votes.

His career was finished, and there wasn't a politician nor a pundit in the country who didn't say so. He was washed-up, held no political office, and was under constant attack by a media that reviled him. Yet six years later he was elected president in 1968. How did he do this?

The same way Sarah Palin can be elected president in 2012.

He traveled abroad to meet with numerous world leaders and wrote articles for prestigious journals like Foreign Affairs. But that was window dressing. After Barry Goldwater's disastrous defeat by Lyndon Johnson in 1964, he spent most of 1965 and 1966 speaking at scores of fundraisers for Republican House and Senate candidates all over the country.

He did this tirelessly, indefatigably, and his national fame drew local donors to the fundraisers in droves.

The millions Nixon raised at these fundraisers enabled the GOP to gain 47 House seats plus three in the Senate in '66. He had single-handedly resuscitated the Republican Party. He articulated Republican positions better than anyone in the party - and most important, dozens of Republicans in Congress owed their seats to him.

Their support in state after state enabled him to sweep the primaries in spring '68 and the nomination was his.

History doesn't repeat itself, but as Mark Twain said, it often rhymes - and it will be rhyming for Sarah Palin from now to November 2012."

[Jeff Head]

"History doesn't repeat itself, but as Mark Twain said, it often rhymes - and it will be rhyming for Sarah Palin from now to November 2012."

GREAT line!

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Your analogy to Nixon is very apt. He even went one step further--after his defeat by Brown for CA governor he held a famous press conference--it began, "This is my last press conference. After today, you won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." And went downhill from there. but as you say, history had different plans.

[Islander2]

You wrote, “In 1960, he was cheated out of the presidency when Chicago Mayor Richard Daley stuffed enough ballot boxes to give Illinois to Kennedy, and Kennedy’s running mate Lyndon Johnson did the same in Texas.”

You are dead right on this, because as a supporter of Nixon we hoped he would challenge the illegal votes from Chicago, many of whom voted from the graveyard, and many who voted multi times. Nixon refused to as he said,”put the country through this turmoil” so did not challenge the vote count and as a result we got the Kennedy thing that keeps on going and going and going and going ad nauseam.