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To: JeanLM

Can you name the last “moderate” Republican nominee to win the Presidency?


61 posted on 11/12/2013 5:58:28 PM PST by Rational Thought
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To: Rational Thought
Can you name the last “moderate” Republican nominee to win the Presidency?

They can't. There has never been a moderate Republican who was one and ran as one to get elected.

Eisenhower won on the strength of being a WWII general, Nixon was law-and-order, Ford was not elected, Bush I benefitted from Reagan's coattails, and Bush II ran twice as a conservative, and still won by nail-biters.

Alf Landon, Wendell Willkie, Thomas Dewey, Ford, Bush I's 2nd term, Dole, McCain, Romney...all moderate losers.

79 posted on 11/12/2013 6:12:49 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2016)
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