Posted on 12/02/2006 9:47:29 AM PST by FloridianBushFan
Former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating, in a recent lunch with veteran Republican political consultant Ed Rollins, explored the prospects of his making a run for president. Rollins replied that he should run only if he could raise a sufficient war chest.
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The rationale for Keating's presidential ambitions is the absence of a clear and viable right-of-center presidential candidate now that Sen. George Allen has been eliminated by his defeat for re-election in Virginia. Keating is a conservative and a prominent Catholic layman who at one time was a prospect to be George W. Bush's running mate in 2000.
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Are you kidding. Allen's political career is over. His next jig will be as a pundit for FOX News IMO.
Hillary Roddam Clinton.
Yes, it is a historical fact that Johnson and Sam Rayburn stole thousands of votes on the border. Local Sheriffs voted the dead and thousands of hispanics who were Mexican citizens.
Any good biography of LBJ will tell you this. Not that our vaunted media has ever noticed.
Nor has it been noticed that Johnson was heavily involved in JFK's death.
Both the phoney election of '60 and the Kennedy assassination are two places today's media will not go.
Yeah. Allen is history. The media buried him. He couldn't even get a job on Fox.
Perhaps that he didn't hyphenate conservative?
That will be a crashing bore.
Keating was being looked at prior to 2000 and I was really interested in him. The last sentence of the first paragraph is about his black mark.
Robert Novak suggesting Keating turns me off, that and the fact he has been out of sight for 4-5 years.
I know wikipedia can be edited and read with caution but ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Keating
2000 Presidential Election
During the United States presidential election, 2000, Keating, while still Governor of Oklahoma, was considered a potential candidate for the Republican nomination of Vice President of the United States under George W. Bush. After Bush choice Dick Cheney, and won the Presidential election, Keating was a contender for U.S. Attorney General in Bush’s administration. However, he was rejected when it was reported that from 1990 through 1997 Keating had accepted gifts of nearly $250,000 from mutual fund pioneer Jack Dreyfus. Keating publicly stated that the gifts were fully disclosed and were approved by the Federal Office of Government Ethics.
[edit] Post Governorship
Following his two terms as governor, Keating accepted a position as president and CEO of the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI), the trade association for the life insurance and retirement security industry. In 2002 he authored a children's book about Oklahoma humorist Will Rogers. Another children's book about Theodore Roosevelt followed in 2006. Keating also served on the boards of the National Archives and Mt. Vernon. He currently lives in Tulsa and Washington, D. C.
Keating and his wife Cathy are the parents of three children, Carrie, Kelly, and Chip. In 2001, Cathy Keating was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination to one of Oklahoma's seats in the U.S. House of Representatives being vacated by Steve Largent. In 2006, Chip Keating was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination to a seat in the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
On December 2, 2006 colummist Robert Novak suggested Keating might be a candidate for the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination. Economic conservatives in the party such as the Club for Growth are sure to raise the issue of Keating's support for maintaining the present inheritance tax system which is a major legislative goal of ACLI.[1]
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I missed it actually. :)
There have been a number of books written which tie Hoover and LBJ to Kennedy's murder. Most notably: BLOOD, MONEY, HONOR AND POLITICS: HOW LBJ MURDERED JFK. By Barr McClellan.
Don't look for it on too many bookshelves. The Johnson family stopped its publicity. McClellan was a partner of Ed Clark, LBJ's personal attorney. Clark told Mclellan (father of Bush pr sec before Snow), that Clark set it up. Johnson, HL Hunt, Hoover, some in the Secret Service, were all involved. It was about money and Johnson facing prison over the Bobby Baker scandal.
LBJ was off the ticket in '64 and headed for prison.
McClellan was on cspan and said his pre publicantion appearances on the networks were all cancelled because the family stopped them.
I stand corrected.
Seriously, though, LBJ was one very, very bad guy.
Thanks for the info! I will try to hunt up the book!
Thank you! You made my hunt easier.
Well, I wanted an excuse to post it so people would check the book out anyway. I remember when LBJ's family had a SH*T fit over the publiction of the book. I just purchased the cd in fact.
I would've been surprised had Bush gone with neighboring Governor Keating, of whom would've brought no added regional appeal to the ticket (much like why Reagan dismissed the excellent Paul Laxalt, largely because he believed 2 westerners from neighbor states was not a good idea -- then, of course, the supposed curse of having 2 people on the ticket from the same region was destroyed by Clinton-Gore).
Dubya's original choice was to have been pro-abort Catholic PA Gov. Tom Ridge, but his position doomed him. It's unfortunate about the gift-giving with regard to Keating. Even if legal and cleared, it's how it looks that is the problem.
3 states where the voter fraud was centered on, IL, TX, and New Mexico. I'm proud to say that my state of TN went to the Nixon column, largely because of the Black Republican vote.
A good litmus test for anything politicians do, is if it is disclosed to the media, would I be embarrassed? Far to many ignore that test, and those who do, should be defeated when caught - all of them, always.
On this one, I am an Old Testament hard ass, and I don't forgive or forget.
Actually, I was referring to his loss when he ran for Governor in 1962. Both of you morons need to calm down, as you're dealing with someone who has read most everything on Nixon.
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