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.
DING DING DING... Winner Winner Chicken Dinner.
It always amazes me at election time, how folks come out of the woodwork making crazy comparisons to whatever their guy is and history, without remotely actually knowing what they are talking about.
Well so and so did it in 1947.. Yes, they did, but they did it within this context, your guy doesn’t fit that context at all...
Nixon didn’t seem like such a world beater in 1962, long after his Checkers speech. Santorum won statewide in PA a state much bluer than 1962 CA. Santorum’s visage is better than Nixon’s. Both are/were short. Obviously, Santorum was never VP. My main point is that losing your last election in and of itself is not a reason to say someone is unelectable. That and Santorum’s support of Specter are the only reasons that frequently come up to reject him. No personal issues, not much for most of us on policy. No huge debate gaffes. No divorce records to unseal. Not even mob ties.
The man is clean and conservative, and certainly has as much business running as Herman Cain, whom I supported earlier.
It wasn’t long ago that Freeepers and others were sayin that Senators don’t get elected, and one did. A lot of the old rules don’t apply, or don’t apply in the same way. Iowa, with a large German Catholic pro-life contingent is a good spot for Santorum to show or better. Urge doesn’t , he’s done. But don’t count him out yet.