Since 1900, only one Republican became president by defeating an incumbent. That was Ronald Reagan. Here are four traits that might have helped his campaign, in 1980:
1. He was conservative.
2. He was a governor.
3. He sought the republican presidential nomination, in a previous election.
4. He was from the West.
These Republicans, who might run for president, in 2012, have at least three of those four traits: ex-Gov. Sarah Palin, ex-Gov. Mike Huckabee, ex-Gov. Mitt Romney, and ex-Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne. I hope that all of them will run, along with ex-VP Dick Cheney, Rep. Ron Paul, and Gov. Haley Barbour.
I hope that four of those seven will continue campaigning until the convention. If that happens, no one will receive the nomination before the convention, causing the convention to be suspenseful and exciting. More people will watch and hear the great republican ideas.
I don’t know whom I would support, but I’ll probably run for convention delegate, again. In 2008, I ran for delegate for Huckabee (in Illinois’ 10th Cong. District), and I got almost 4,000 votes. That was more votes than a state rep. (Suzie Bassi) and the Lake Co. Clerk (Willard Helander), combined.
Well I certainly don’t want Romney to run for fear he may win.
Or Huck, he’d take social conservative votes that would otherwise probably go to a better candidate like Palin.
Kempthorne, interesting. His big problem would be that’s little known and from Idaho.
We don’t need Cheney running to remind people of Bush.
I agree it would quite exciting it went all the way to the convention, but of course it could turn into a huge mess.
“, I ran for delegate for Huckabee (in Illinois’ 10th Cong. District), and I got almost 4,000 votes. That was more votes than a state rep. (Suzie Bassi) and the Lake Co. Clerk (Willard Helander), combined.”
You have a good name to run for office. ;-)