Posted on 08/17/2014 2:33:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The party of the next guy has no next guy.
For more than two generations, the Republican presidential nominating process has had an immutable internal logic to it: The next guy in line gets the nomination. Thats how every Republican president of the post-Eisenhower era has won his partys nomination and how just about every GOP presidential nominee since Thomas E. Dewey (1944 and 1948) got to the top of the ticket. Its certainly how Barack Obamas two opponents, Sen. John McCain and former Gov. Mitt Romney, were nominated.
But just as the Republican Party is going through one of its periodic struggles for identity earlier such battles were fought in 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1980 and 1992 the party finds itself without a next guy.
The only political figure with possible claims to the title is Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the 2012 vice presidential nominee. But he is more interested in becoming chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee and realizing his dream, perhaps as difficult to attain as winning a presidential nomination, of rewriting the federal tax code....
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MISSOURI GOP EXEC DIRECTOR: RAND PAUL’S COMMENTS ON DEMILITARIZATION, RACE ‘UNHELPFUL’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3193928/posts
FORMER GEORGE W. BUSH SPEECHWRITER: RAND PAUL GAVE ‘AID & COMFORT’ TO RIOTERS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3193636/posts
Al Sharpton: ‘Rand Paul Is Right’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3193449/posts
RAND PAUL: TO THE LEFT OF ERIC HOLDER ON FELON ENFRANCHISEMENT
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3172681/posts
Laura Ingraham: Rand Paul is almost as bad as Jeb Bush on amnesty
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3171113/posts
RAND PAUL CALLS FOR AN ‘EXPANDED WORK VISA PROGRAM’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3170917/posts
Rand Paul Crafting New Alliances With Romneys 2012 Team
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3150072/posts
First a few of these are left-wing attacks. 2ndly a few others are nuanced conservative takes on what normally are Democrat issues, 3rd yes he has a taken a few positions that in the past have been problematic.
I’ll wait and see.
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