Posted on 01/31/2008 1:51:45 PM PST by fallingwater
Bad things BTW.
Bad things BTW.
Yes, I can see that McCain and Nixon are similar and both ran for the Presidency more than once.
Go Mitt
As I recall, Arnold dared to mention Nixon for the first time since Nixon resigned in 1974 at the GOP Convention in 2004. It got the loudest cheer of anything Arnold said. I can understand why Mitt has a 'thing' about Nixon: Nixon easily defeated Romney's father in the 1968 runup to the GOP nomination and found him to be an utter bore in cabinet meetings. I think Mitt's dad had one hell of a time getting through his 'higher' education and it looks as if Mitt could profit by returning to school to learn a little more about Politics 101. He probably lost as many voters by that slam at Nixon as he will gain from millions of dollars of advertising he's about to launch. Just dumb. And I was one of those who, independently of all other factors, including McCain, had been supportive of Romney's candidacy, but to make such a dumb political move means he'd likely have screwed up before long, even if he had won the nomination.
Doesn't Mitt know that Nixon still had the rank-and-file support of most of the GOP on the day he resigned? It was only the 'loudness' of Nixon's GOP opponents (both in the press and in Congress)(e.g. the Buckley brothers, Wm. and Jim, Goldwater etc.) who obscured this truth.
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