And Ronald Reagan & George W. Bush.
When the two political parties are smart enough to run Governors, they usually win.
If they foolishly rally around some senatoral party hack from one of their "safe states" who tells them what they want to hear... well... talk to John "I can beat Bush" Kerry & Bob Dole about what happens.
I agree about Reagan; however, I wouldn’t include Bush because he’s NO conservative. He spent like a drunk sailor (my apologies to sailers because at least they spend their own money) for five years and gave us the biggest entitlement (prescription drugs) since LBJ. He’s sided with the leftists on affirmative action, failed to secure our borders, and has been totally devoid of any principles of conservatism. Another four years of him and we’ll really be ruined! Even in Texas, as governor, he supported the liberal agenda more than he did conservative core principles. But his main impetus (like his father’s) is to “get along.”