What about Paul and Romney? One's a kook and the other is a squishy cultist but didn't they run national campaigns?
Also, I beg to quibble with the notion that Palin has “run” a national campaign.
She was in a national campaign, for sure, but she certainly was not in charge of the whole dang thing, nor did she develop the infrastructure for the campaign or the overall strategy.
Yes, she freelanced some and influenced the nature of the campaign probably more than most VP candidates. But no way did she build the national campaign organization, develop overall strategy for it or manage it.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
There you went and jerked the posters fig leaf off.
“What about Paul and Romney? One’s a kook and the other is a squishy cultist but didn’t they run national campaigns?”
If you read the article, you would have noticed that I use the term “national campaign” in the sense of the general election campaign, 50 state election son a single day. Romney never ran such a campaign.
Paul ran a quixotic campaign as a libertarian 25 years ago, but that wasn’t a serious, national campaign. I stand by my statement. In terms of the current GOP field Palin alone among the current GOP candidates has national campaign experience on a major party ticket.
>> “What about Paul and Romney? One’s a kook and the other is a squishy cultist but didn’t they run national campaigns?” <<
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No, they have not; all they have done is run some state primary campaigns, and not even in all the states.
Ron Paul ran in the general in 47 states way back when, but that was not really an attempt to gain office.