Posted on 01/03/2006 7:14:51 AM PST by Gipper08
I'm looking for: “An American, a conservative, a Christian, then a Republican , in that order.”
There are some real turkeys in this list. In truth, some of these have had administrative or "management" experience through the military or other ventures. If there is a lesson to be learned from the debate that surrounds your discussion, it is this: Principles and character matter; there is no clear evidence that anything else does, but there are mountains of bs claiming that it does.
Well, turkeys or not, the point is that they became POTUS without serving as Veep or a state governor.
I like him better than anyone who's running.
There is more wit and wisdom here than any Democrat, two thirds of all Republicans, and maybe half of the Freepers that visit this site. We need to find out what they eat and drink in this neck of NC and start exporting it to the rest of the country just in case it's something in the local environment. Somebody should start taking a look at his school and his household. If it's in the genes, we can't capture it and use it to everybody's benefit, but if it's anywhere else, there is a terrific opportunity here to learn something that is incredibly important.
NC bump because the author is a high school student in the Western part of our state, not necessarily because I support Rep. Pence.
Pence is a Gingrich Republican, not a Reagan Republican, if I remember correctly.
Sorry, but it's going to be McCain.
Ha. That reminds me of a friend I had in high school, someone I thought was as iconoclastic as myself, with whom I used to talk politics. Saw him suddenly after not seeing him for a while, and he was supporting REAGAN! Egads. That was a shocker. This was back in '76, when Reagan was in danger of getting tagged as one of those kooks that always runs, without any chance of getting in. Dude turned out to be a homo too -- one of the first Log Cabin Republicans, I guess.
People seem to forget that, discounting LBJ who got in because of assassination, no sitting VP had ever been elected president before 41 since before the civil war.
Johnson was a Senator AND a VP. That's two strikes.
Except of course Washington, Madison, Monroe, JQ Adams, Ol' Hickory, Taft, Taylor, Buchanan, Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, Harding, Hoover, Truman, Ike, and JFK.
OK, I'll qualify my statement - the vast majority of people that will be voting for president in 2008 have demonstrated a pattern of electing somebody who was either a governer or a vice-president.
Again, nothing against Pence. I just realize that our best bet is a conservative governor. Mississippi? Askansas? Any others?
Forget Arkansas... just... no.
Should I have heard of this person?
I wonder if given a good deal of thought to the philosophical and moral basis of conservatism and the development of the uniquely American character? If you have the opportunity to pick it up, you might enjoy Russell Kirk's "The Roots of American Order"
Not yet, but it seems Pence launched a subtlely serious run for the presidency in the summer.
I like Rep. Pence just fine, the little I know of him. I have a bit of a problem with his groupie, who strayed onto George Allen threads on more than one occasion to promote his favorite politician. No problem with that, but Gip would do it at Allen's expense - and quite often inaccurately.
Hunh? Truman was VP. Ike led the allies in WWII. Ol' Hickory, Ike, Grant, and Washington were all military leaders with far more experience in leading men than any governor.
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