Except of course Washington, Madison, Monroe, JQ Adams, Ol' Hickory, Taft, Taylor, Buchanan, Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, Harding, Hoover, Truman, Ike, and JFK.
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.
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?
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.