Mitt Romney: Tom Dewey All Over Again

The New American ^ | 11-25-2011 | Jack Kenny

[ReformationFan]

From that article on Dewey, I wonder if he voted for Nixon or for Humphrey in the 1968 election?

[meadsjn]

From that article on Dewey, I wonder if he voted for Nixon or for Humphrey in the 1968 election?

Good question. Like the RINOs we have observed in recent decades, Dewey repeatedly assisted liberal Democrats against conservative Republicans (i.e. Taft, Goldwater).

By the 1960s, as the conservative wing assumed more and more power within the Republican Party, Dewey removed himself further and further from party matters. When the Republicans in 1964 gave Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, Taft's successor as the conservative leader, their presidential nomination, Dewey declined to even attend the GOP Convention in San Francisco; it was the first Republican Convention he had missed since 1936.[23] President Lyndon Johnson offered Dewey a number of positions on several blue ribbon commissions, as well as a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, but Dewey declined them all, for he preferred to remain in political retirement and concentrate on his highly profitable law firm. By the early 1960s Dewey's law practice had made him into a multimillionaire.

Although closely identified with the Republican Party for virtually his entire adult life, Dewey was a close friend of Democratic Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, and Dewey aided Humphrey in being named as the Democratic nominee for vice-president in 1964, advising Lyndon Johnson on ways to block efforts at the party convention by Kennedy loyalists to stampede Robert Kennedy onto the ticket as Johnson's running mate.

[xrmusn]

....that he was seen by the mob as being incorruptible.
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Also, in 1944 - the story goes - Dewey was going to claim that FDR knew in advance that Pearl Harbor was going to be attacked.
Everyone in the Military got their shorts in an uproar as they were afraid if this charge had been leveled, the Japanese would find out we had broken their code.

Dewey was convinced to ‘back off’ and it more than likely cost him the election.

[MasterGunner01]

I think the Republican primary voters will sort things out. I think they're pissed off enough and ‘way ahead of the RINO Party here.

IHMO, Newtie’s shot himself with the illegal aliens gaffe and Rombot can't get above 25 percent no matter what. Now, whether the Republican Party elite can stack the deck in such away as to run their favorite RINO flavor is a big unknown.