He wouldn’t won no, but still. Kemp added little to the ticket and seems like a flake to me. Pro-affirmative action. That’s one issue I can’t even see the other side on.
And maybe with the VP nom credit Engler might have run in 2000 and possibly spared us a certain gentleman’s Presidency (he couldn’t have done worse) and saved Spence Abraham’s seat in the Senate.
Abraham was the wrong man to hold that seat. He only had himself to blame for losing when he insisted on wanting to gin up the number of immigrants to the country. He was warned ahead of time it would have a chilling effect on his reelect numbers, and it did. If he had won a second term, it would’ve emboldened him on the issue, and he’d have made Mel Martinez look like a Minuteman. He most assuredly would’ve lost in a landslide in ‘06 because of it.
One thing that troubled me deeply was when he was on Fred’s campaign for a time.