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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If Torie doesn't like him, that's a sign that he's a REAL conservative.
Or failing that, maybe he can find a job as a stand-up comedian.
For the record, the electoral vote count in 1960 was:
Illinois, 27
Texas, 24
South Carolina, 8
New Mexico, 4
Hawaii, 3
The electoral vote totals were 303 for Kennedy, 219 for Nixon, and 15 for Harry F. Byrd (one of those was a Republican who should have voted for Nixon). 269 votes were needed to win (the total was 537--the House had 437 members because Alaska and Hawaii each had one Congressman, having been admitted after the 1950 census...the 3 votes for DC were first cast in 1964).
I believe Nixon was the liberal Republican candidate in the primary in 1962, and that his conservative opponent (Shell) is still alive. How close was the general election?
I don't know anything about him except his name. That said, I don't think he's the one I'd vote for because if I ever thought he was worth the Presidency, I'd have remembered him more than I do now...
"The Legislature has yet to get religion," Keating claimed Monday night. "That's to be expected, since two-thirds of them are Democrats."
"During his five years in office Gov. Frank Keating has repeatedly insulted Democratic officials, school teachers and Oklahoma citizens in general," Benson responded. "He has a long history of disparaging remarks about anyone who disagrees with his point of view.
I like the guy.
I like him too. This might be really exciting.
BTW, Army is tied with Navy late in the second quarter. Oohrah!
I'd sure volunteer to support a double 'Okie ticket of Frank Keating and J.C. Watts!
Someone ping Captain Obvious.
At the present time, I have no favorite for the '08 race, aside from current non-candidates SC Gov. Mark Sanford and Business Exec Herman Cain. The rest are damaged, or are phonies. You have a particular pick ?
Yeah, brilliant. Try checking the Constitution which bans just such a ticket. Ronaldus Magnus. hahahaha
Keating is a solid conservative. I wouldn't have a problem voting for him for President. Much easier than McCain or Guiliani for sure.
I just don't think he'll have the money to compete with McCain or Rudy unless he finds a sugar daddy to back him early.
The biggest problem with Keating is that too many people in that big mindless voting rabble out there would confuse him with "The Keating Five". Ironically, that same bunch of morons would make no similar connection with McCain.
No, Allen "Macaccaed" himself by getting defensive and apologizing all over the place. I'm surprised he didn't sit down with that Macacca (with a retired judge present) and offer a cash settlement. That would have helped his image. Yeah.
I still think Dr. Rice would be an ideal candidate!
IL & TX alone were enough to flip it, the rest were superfluous.
I never heard of any fraud in SC on behalf of Kennedy, and it's doubtful the Democrats running the state at the time were going to bother giving him a boost (Sen. Thurmond surely wasn't).
Hawaii in 1960 was still a semi-GOP state (albeit in transition to 'Rat since the mid '50s), and how much fraud that went on there is questionable, and there was a GOP Governor at the time.
As for NM, just a bit of fraud was needed in the southern tier counties along with heavily Hispanic northern ones (like Rio Arriba, which has had corruption for years) to flip the state, although a Republican (and former Governor, Ed Mechem) did beat the incumbent Dem Governor in that election, so one might wonder how come fraud didn't help John Burroughs win a 2nd term.
Nice try republicanwizard, but no dice!!! Although it is debatable whether it would ever really matter that under the twelfth amendment the electors from Oklahoma would not be able to vote for J.C. as vice-president, in either case J.C. is now the chairman of J.C. Watts Companies and I believe lives just outside of D.C. in Virginia. Otherwise he could just change his residency a few months before the election like Dick Cheney did. Please feel free to Freepmail your apology to me instead of posting it here to save yourself the embarrassment!
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