As the article points out, Richard Nixon had been Vice President of the United States for two Eisenhower terms.
He had run and come within a hair of beating Kennedy, and would’ve won if not for known voter fraud, which he chose not to pursue.
The race he lost was always his to lose...Gov of CA. A post in which he had never served and had formerly expressed no interest in. It was a freak move with predictable results.
Nixon then returned to national politics where he fit, and he ran with a “secret plan” to get us out of Vietnam, against a deeply divided Dem party and its standard bearer, the unabashed liberal, Hubert Humphrey.
With all that, I went to bed that night believing HH won, woke up in the am to find late states ekked it out for Nixon.
There’s little comparison to Santorum.
Hahahahahaha...
You are Comparing Santorum to Nixon? hahahahahahaha Wow, if you think Santorum is remotely the politician Nixon was, you really have been smoking some good stuff. Sorry, Santorum is a non starter in a general election.. there is no checkers speech in this guy. hahahahahahahaha Wow, talk about denial.
I have said from day one, had the Tea Party Voting block not had this all or nothing mindset, and kept bouncing from whoever told them what they wanted to hear, and actually applied a little forethought, that they would have and probably should have looked at the candidates and backed Santorum, and stayed with him.. likely would not get the nomination, but could have certainly influenced the election and MIGHT on the outside have gotten a VP not at best. HOwever, there is NO calculus, none, that gets Santorum into the White House this election cycle.
Nice dream for some, but not rooted in reality.