Posted on 01/27/2010 11:59:01 AM PST by rabscuttle385
If by earned it she means
“a person with a 100% rating from every conservative group and a 0% rating from every Lib organization, a person who lives, breaths and is committed to constitutional principles and has fought for them, a person who is un-detered by PC or calls for “bi-partisanship” or “consensus” then I agree.
I don’t think that person has revealed themselves yet.
The Democrats and their media propagandists are on the lookout for even the tiniest opening in which to drive a wedge between Republicans, because the Democrats are themselves on the verge of fragmentation. The proper way to deliver ammunition to the enemy is inbound and on target.
I am not sure why that happens but on the R side it is usually the case. McCain got the nod in 08 after he ran in 00.
Reagan got it in 80 after running in 76
Nixon in 68 after barely losing to Kennedy in 60
Bob Dole in 96 after running a couple of times
Bush Sr also ran in 80 then got it in 88 though obviously the man was VP
Ike and W were probably the only two in recent history that got it first time out. Of course W had the benefit of his fathers name which may have helped
perhaps we Rs just like familiarity or something.
and McCain
[If he’s nominated, Republicans will have to unify aroud him.]
Not gonna happen.
It’s NOT ROMNEY’S TURN! It’s THE PEOPLE’S TURN!
thank you Scott Brown.....
What a moronic question. This is what we get when the media think it’s their job to make news rather than report it.
No, but he plays one (quite badly) on tv.
You may be right....bottom line is that folks are not going to put up with GOP claiming anyone’s TURN again, after McCain....they were spreading the “it’s his turn” cheese back in Feb of ‘07....
If the People pick Palin so be it...but Steele won’t be PICKIN who’s “turn” it is....
;-)
Misleading headline alert!
It’s not about whose turn it is; it’s about electing the right person for the job.
Who asked the “question?” No context is given for the blogger’s brief comment.
Not this one.
Nixon got the nomination in 60 as the incumbant VP under Ike, and as you said lost narrowly to Kennedy. In 68, when he ran against Humphrey, he was an established GOP “leader” which helped him get the nod for the nomination.
Reagan ran a good primary campaign in 76, but lost the nomination to Ford, the incumbant president. That was a very tightly fought primary, and even though Reagan didn’t speak ill of Ford he also declined to campaign very enthusiastically for him. Ford blamed Reagan in part for his loss to Carter in the general election in 76. Reagan’s organization was still very much intact after the general election and Reagan kept building his coalition in order to be positioned for the 1980 primary as the dominant GOP leader. Bush ran a decent enough campaign for Reagan to decide he would make a good running-mate. (Reagan passed over Dole - who had been Ford’s running-mate - and over Kemp - who would have been a more conservative choice than GHW Bush.)
GHW Bush was pretty much a given in 1988, the incumbant VP for a very successful 2-term President who had turned the country around from the dismal Carter years to a path of long-term economic growth with low interest rates and low inflation.
After Bush lost his reelection bid in 1992, that left the field wide open in 1996. As Dole had been bidin’ his time in the Senate after his unsuccessful VP run in 76 and his unsuccessful attempts at the nomination in 1980 and 1988, he ran on pretty much an “it’s my turn” platform for the 1996 nomination, along with a side order of “who else do you think is electable?” and the GOP primary voters decided that nobody else was groomed enough for the nomination. I personally think either Kemp or Gramm could have run a stronger campaign than Dole, but we got what we got, and clinton won a second term rather easily.
In 2000, there weren’t very many viable GOP candidates positioned for the nomination. Fortunately, GW Bush got out there and got a lead ahead of McCain, or we might have had McCain to run a dismal campaign against algore, which probably would have made algore the Commander-in-Chief on 9/11/2001. THANK GOD we avoided that disaster.
In 2008, with nobody positioned to take up the conservative mantle, we had a free-for-all in which Huckabee, Romney, and McCain splitting up the Anybody-but-Guiliani majority, which almost enabled Guiliani to mount an early lead. (Fortunately, he turned out to be an awful campaigner.) Fred Thompson probably waited a little too late to jump into the campaign, and the groundswell of support that he was building melted out from under him before he got his campaign underway. As the herd started getting thinned, and it got to a point that Romney had become the most palatable of the RINO’s left, McCain emerged with what was essentially an “it’s his turn” nomination.
So, I’m not sure that the GOP side really has a tendency to nominate those who have had multiple attempts at the nomination, but it definitely appears that the 1996 and 2008 nominations were of the “it’s his turn” variety. We definitely need to take a better approach in 2012. (And I ABSOLUTELY believe that a Huckabee or Romney nomination would NOT be the winning approach.)
Wait for Bloomberg to enter the race.
It was GLENN BECK who said it was Romney’s turn to be the Republican nominee in 2012, and that Palin wasn’t ready.
http://www.gop12.com/2010/01/palin-its-not-romneys-turn.html
“Who asked the “question?” No context is given for the blogger’s brief comment.”
Of course, ben smith did not link to the actual interview because it was on the independently owned and operated sarahpalinradio started over a year ago on wsradio by LaDonna Curzon. Smith wouldn’t want to point out that neither Romney nor any other potential 2012 candidate that I know of has people independently setting up radio stations.
At any rate, C4P has the interview here:
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2010/01/governor-sarah-palin-talks-to-sarah.html
Or you can get it directly here (along with the other shows): http://sarahpalinradio.com/
Republicans may, conservatives won’t.
Wham. Another home run as good as “it's the people's seat”.
Sarah haters will be deeply saddened.
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