Posted on 02/15/2011 11:57:53 PM PST by pissant
Warren G. Harding defeated the governor of his home state - Ohio - for the presidency back in 1920. That was the last - the only - time a senator ever won the presidency running against a governor. Worse, no senator has ever defeated a sitting president. It's true that Abraham Lincoln was only a former congressman when he won in 1860, if you want go back that far - and don't mind that as a precedent, his election was only by a plurality in a 3-way race. Oh yes, and Herbert Hoover was Secretary of Commerce - and a famous private enterprise executive and philanthropist (whom FDR favored for the presidency).So it is, IMHO, silly to nominate a senator. Or Herman Cain, who is after all famous primarily for being a black man who is a successful executive of a pizza chain. Too thin, IMHO.
I wouldn’t call resignation, successful. Two full terms is successful.
That would be good combo!
I believe this would be a formidable duo. I'd probably do 'er the other way around, though.
Going to see Bachman live on Friday! :)
sc ia or nh?
I was around for Reagan and Palin is Reagan in High Heels! She is better looking, but Reagan was not in his prime.
Palin is quicker in getting her words out than any politician in the last 50 years, this is a sign she says what she believes! Finally, someone who tells the Truth!
Some people seems to think a woman can’t run this country, that’s another reason why she needs to be the first woman President!
She would do a lot to hurt the men having sex with men lifestyle, Normal would be back in again! That’s probably the biggest reason that the anti Palin freepers keeping spurring out all the same negatives Reagan lived with, yes, our token liberal democrat Trolls and with their sick lifestyle!
I was around for FDR and as for Reagan, I introduced him to a convention when he was Governor.
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