The last sitting House member to be elected President was James Garfield in 1880.
The Tancredo-Hunter cults don't seem to understand that America wants men with executive experience to be their President.
"The Tancredo-Hunter cults don't seem to understand that America wants men with executive experience to be their President."
Real executive experience comes from being a governor, not a mayor.
I know it's hard for the Rudyphiles to get understand, but most people don't vote based on "executive experience" or not. If they do, why is Hillary Clinton the favorite to win the white house in 2008? Why is Obama so popular? Kerry was just 60,000 Bush-voters in Ohio voting for him from winning. Governors usually win because they don't take real stands on anything. I doubt too many people say "I am a life-long liberal democrat, but my candidate was never anything other than a senator, guess I'm voting republican."
He's the only one, and he arguably wasn't even that as he had been appointed (back when they did it that way) as the new US Senator from Ohio prior to the GOP Convention. He hadn't taken office as Senator yet, though, but he was clearly more than your average Congressman.
Yeah. That's why America voted Bill Clinton into office. All we need to do is run another pro-abortion, anti-2nd Amendment, pro-amnesty, pro-radical gay agenda, serial adulterer, liberal lawyer with executive experience like Bill Clinton and we'll win the White House for sure. Magnificent conservative strategy!