Posted on 11/06/2014 9:58:17 AM PST by forbushalltheway
I say the same for him or for C Rice [she was on FoxNews this morning, so they were touting her to run]. Run for some state office and see if you can get elected.
Of course, for many in the early 2000s, they were jumping on the Colin Powell bandwagon and trying to push him to run. After his rather lackluster stint as SoS, people are glad he didn’t run.
Then there was all the fervor over that actor guy, Thompson.
Recall the Condi Rice’s stint as SoS was not too stellar either.
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These are just more names pundits, consultants, and bots are throwing against the wall to see if any of them stick.
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A few months ago, some group pushing Carson were running ads on the radio. One ad say he ‘is the only one who could defeat Hillary Clinton.’
How would they know? He has never run for anything in a public election.
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Enough with pushing these feel-good-ism candidates. Do you want to win or do you want more also-rans?
If you want to win, you are going to need some strong candidates who have politicial backgrounds and who stand for something. They are the one who will attract the media attention, the moneymen, and the voters.
You guys are correct about Washington having political experience, and not just as an American officer in the British Army and leader of the American Army.
George Washington had vast political experience before he became President of the United States.
Fifteen years in Virginia House of Burgesses.
George Washington served in the Virginia House of Burgesses for fifteen years before the American Revolution. After a failed bid for a seat in December 1755, he won election in 1758 and represented Frederick County until 1761. That year he ran in Fairfax County, winning a seat which he would retain until 1775.
With its origin in the first meeting of the Virginia General Assembly at Jamestown in July 1619, the House of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies.
“Three days later Washington joined the burgesses remaining in Williamsburg to sign a resolution calling for a meeting in August which would become the first Virginia Revolutionary convention. The membership of the five Revolutionary conventions was almost entirely made up of burgesses.”
Member of the First Continental Congress.
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. Virginia’s delegation presented the most eminent group of men in America. Colo. George Washington, Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, Edmund Pendleton, Colo. Benjamin Harrison, Richard Bland, and at the head of them Peyton Randolph — who would immediately be elected president of the convention.
Member of the Second Continental congress.
Washington served as a Virginia delegate to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1775. Facing a fight for independence with Britain, he was elected Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
Major General and Commander-in-Chief of the colonial forces against Great Britain.
Constitutional Convention 1787.
When the Constitutional Convention opened in Philadelphia in May 1787, Washington was elected convention president by a unanimous vote, just as he had been unanimously chosen to lead the Continental Army twelve years before.
Presidential election of 1789.
Washington was once again called upon to serve this country. During the presidential election of 1789, he received a vote from every elector to the Electoral College, the only president in American history to be elected by unanimous approval.”
Absolutely correct. Such background and experience made GW not only our first POTUS, but our best POTUS as well IMHO.
Just say NO to the gun-grabber!
He’s really running for Vice President
That gave me chills. Me too.
Where does he stand on amnesty for illegals? What about our involvement in foreign wars?
I need to know more. There are a lot of question marks.
I don’t see any reason Carson’s a preferable candidate to Cruz. Cruz has a record of conservatism as good as anybody and he has proven he can handle the heat of a political firestorm without melting down.
I think Scott Walker’s stock increased by winning reelection in a blue state while not apparently compromising his conservative principles, so he’s my second choice. Like Cruz, he’s also taken tons of heat so we know he’s capable of handling it without losing his cool.
A Walker/Cruz ticket would fit the successful mold we’ve seen before of a reelected governor at the top of the ticket with a movement conservative at the bottom. Since Walker has more governing experience it would seem fair and would set Cruz in line as the next president.
Why would I want to vote for someone who thinks Clinton was impeached over an extramarital affair? Sloppy thinking.
Senator Thompson (1994–2003) was no stranger to government and politics, going back to the 1960s when he worked as an assistant U.S. attorney from 1969 to 1972 and then Thompson was the campaign manager for Republican U.S. Senator Howard Baker's reelection campaign in 1972 and was minority counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee in its investigation of the Watergate scandal (1973–1974).
"Thompson served as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board at the United States Department of State, was a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a Visiting Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, specializing in national security and intelligence."
"Thompson was the campaign manager for Republican U.S. Senator Howard Baker's reelection campaign in 1972 and was minority counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee in its investigation of the Watergate scandal (1973–1974). In the 1980s Thompson worked as an attorney, with law offices in Nashville and Washington, DC, handling personal injury claims and defending people accused of white collar crimes. He also accepted appointments as Special Counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1980–1981), Special Counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee (1982), and Member of the Appellate Court Nominating Commission for the State of Tennessee (1985–1987)."
To bad he’s a gun-grabber and anti-second amendment.
I’ll second that.
“The country is sick, the doctor is the fix”.
Because he is personable and well spoken and it is a position that is essentially useless where little harm can be done.
No. He’s just some guy pimping books. He’ll drop out of the race as soon as it gets tough, just like Cain.
Has this man run a large, national or international organization? Sure he is smart. But haven’t we had enough inexperienced executives? Aren’t there a whole bunch of governors who have actually run something?
Rhetoric does not an executive make.
Ike managed the largest political and logistical operation ever created. I think he was qualified. Grant was right behind them.
Not quite the same as being a two star somewhere.
Nine men found out that the office isn't useless when the presidency became vacant while they were veep. Half a dozen or so other men came close to finding out. I can't think on anything that really recommends Carson as president so I can't see him in the second spot either.
As a Republican lets see what he says now. Heck Bob Dole turned on Conservatives in the middle of his run for president.
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