Posted on 11/06/2008 7:56:49 PM PST by Perdogg
Let's look at Palin's White House chances by examining the results of those who sought the Vice Presidency and lost.
This does not included those who were Vice President and lost at re-election
1904: Sen Henry Gassaway Davis - WV, Dem, Never heard from again
1908: Sen John Worth Kern - IN, Dem - Died 9 years latter
1912: Gov Hiram Warren Johnson - CA, Progessive - Elected to the US Senate until 1945
1916: Sen Charles Warren Fairbanks - IN, Republican - Died in 1918.
1920: Gov Franklin D Roosevelt - NY, Democrat - Elected President 1932
1924: Gov Charles Wayland Bryan - NE, Democrat - Return to Lincoln
1928: Sen Joseph Taylor Robinson - AR, Democrat - Return to Senate
1936: Frank Knox - MA, Republican - Became FDR's Navy Secretary
1940: Sen Charles Linza McNary - OR, Republican - Returned to Senate
1944: Gov John William Bricker - OH, Republican - Became a US Senator.
1948: Gov Earl Warren - CA, Republican - Return to Sacramento, the rest is history (didn't do enough to redistribute income).
Gov Fielding Wright - MS, Dixicrat - Returned to Jackson.
1952: Sen John Sparkman - AL, Democrat - Returned to the US Senate
1956: Sen Estes Kefauver - TN, Democrat - Returned to the US Senate
1960: Amb Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.- MA, Republican - Returned to Diplomatic corp.
1964: William Miller - NY, Republican - Disappeared. Claim to fame, made an American Express commercial and spawned a she-bitch by the name of Stephanie Miller.
1968: Sen Ed Muskie - ME, Democratic - Ran for President in 1972, degraded himself further by becoming Carter's Sec of State in 1980.
Curtis Lemay - CA, American Independent Party - Disappeared.
1972: Sargent Shriver - Md, Democrat - Ran for President in 1976.
1976: Sen Robert Dole - KS, Republican - Returned to Senate, Ran for President in 1980, 1988, and got the GOP nomination in 1996 only to make McCain's run in 2008 look good.
1984: Rep Geraldine Ferraro - NY, Democrat - Left the House,
1988: Sen Lloyd Benten - TX, Democrat - Returned to Senate, later degraded himself in the Clinton Administration.
1992: Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale - MD, Reform Party - "Who am I? Why am I here?" Made the word Gridlock famous.
1996: Jack Kemp - NY, Republican - Private citizen, frequent media guest.
2000: Sen Joe Liberman - CN, Democrat - Returned to Senate.
2004: John Edwards - NC, Democrat - Returned to North Carolina, ran for President in 2007. Cheated on his wife.
It’s boarding on nightmare status...
Yeah and no Senator had become president since Kennedy. The funny thing about history...someone, or something will always be the “first”. Sarah has a fine chance of being the first and is exactly what the Repubs need to kick them in the tail IMHO.
15 in the Senate is a stretch, but 56 is a good goal to go for in the House.
When you have two senators nominated, it pretty much sets it up.
Every Republican over the age of 50 or so needs to be off the table...
We need the next generation, the ones raised under Reagan.
Conventional wisdom, until this year at least, has been that Senators do not make good presidential candidates. That still holds true, as far as I’m concerned, but the fact remains that a Senator is going to be president now, the first since JFK.
You seem to want to dampen enthusiasm for Sarah Palin. Why? Are you a Jindal supporter?
LOL!! I bet if we took a vote on here the vast majority would say the same thing — no to anyone who ran in the GOP primary.
I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying. In fact, I was one of the first people on FR who supported her for McCain’s running mate. Me, Titansafc,and Pennsylvaniamom all supported her.
uhhh....I don’t think any of those other VP candidates were drawing up to 60,000 people at times to rallies and 15 million viewers to SNL.
Please do a search on my statements about Gov Palin. I love the woman. I would definitely work for her and support her whatever she decides to do.
I was giving a historical perceptive on those who lost the Vice Presidency.
Wow, you Palin whackos are as deluded as the Obamaniacs. She was a fringe pick who got the conservative base excited, but who brought little to the ticket and few to the polls. She is profoundly unqualified to have been a heartbeat away. Mayor of Mayberry against 30 years in the Senate? If you’re waiting for her to come back in two or four years for a national run, you are deluding yourselves.
I hope so.
Yep, without Plain McCain would have had about 20% of the vote.
Whacko, hmmm, mirror, ah yes.
relax it is not. you can do a search on my statements about her. I have always supported and defended her.
We need another Contract with America (with new name): 6 bills, already written, with congressional candidates signing up in Nov 09 and pushing for an entire year and pledging to drop all 6 to committees on Day One, 2010.
You should use her title, Governor Palin.
Hard to believe that you thought that she was still a mayor, you should pay more attention.
If Palin can’t be POTUS, maybe she’ll be president of the Republic of Alaska.
Was Harry Truman qualified to be President? No College degree and a clothing salesman.
That would be the equivalent of electing a Nordstrom’s sales person today.
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