Posted on 03/17/2015 11:16:33 AM PDT by Andy'smom
Tried, past tense. They tried and succeeded.
Well Dan, that’s what you get for taking advice from Dick Nixon....
It’s just that advice that applies to you isn’t necessarily what would work for someone else. In Nixon’s case, he should’ve let Joe Shell run unopposed (although the liberal RINO establishment opposed him, just as they did with Reagan in 1966 when they anointed liberal SF Mayor George Christopher) and gone around the country campaigning for GOP candidates running in the 1962 midterms and collecting favors.
Nixon was smart enough NOT to declare for 1964 (I don’t know how strongly he was leaning towards it prior to the assassination). Of course we know now (and Nixon likely did, too) that no Republican was going to win in 1964 after JFK’s death. Nixon was no dummy, and I could see valuing his advice in many cases, only that he did not see that Quayle was held in high esteem in Indiana.
Too many pols don’t see that they can leave a real legacy in setting their sights lower (Senator & Governor) and pass on one or both in an obsessive quest for the Presidency. Take New York for example. Pataki & Giuliani both coveted the Presidency, but had both been more realistic, Giuliani could’ve waltzed into Albany (in 2006 or 2010) and saved the state from the embarrassing tenures of Spitzer-Paterson-Cuomo Jr. Pataki, conversely, could’ve run against lightweight Gillibrand and been the Senator today.
I’m real pissed at Julie Annie for never running for Governor.
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