Okay, that’s fine. Thank you for the correction.
Look, what takes place at the end of an eight year term in office? My perception is that the Vice President generally gets the nomination to continue.
Hey that may be a false premise too. If so, I would urge you to mention it.
If we get a luke warm moderate installed, it’s my take that we will at best see twelve years before we can expect to get another shot at putting a good guy in.
We’re pretty close to my last shot at supporting an actual Conservative for the White House in my lifetime.
I’m resigned to watch folks make the same mistake we have since 1988. There’s always more folks who don’t really give a damn about Conservatism when the going gets tough.
We were lucky to have Reagan. I’ll just watch as the political klutzes continue to try the same damned things all over again, expecting a different outcome.
That’s an interesting question, so I’ll put up what I find. Do sitting Vice-Presidents win their parties nomination when the sitting President chooses not to, or is unable, to run?
George Washington — John Adams - Yes
Thomas Jefferson — George Clinton - no nomination process, but did run, so ‘Yes’
James Monroe — Daniel Thompson - No
Andrew Jackson — Martin Van Buren - Yes
James Polk — George Dallas - No
James Buchanan — John Breckinridge - Yes
Rutherford Hayes — William Wheeler - No
Grover Cleveland — Adlai Stevenson - No
Theodore Roosevelt — Charles Fairbanks - No
Calvin Coolidge — Charles Dawes - No
Harry Truman — Alben Barkley - No
Dwight Eisenhower — Richard Nixon - Yes
Lyndon Johnson — Hubert Humphrey - Yes
Ronald Reagan — George H. W. Bush - Yes
William Clinton — Albert Gore - Yes
George W. Bush — Richard Cheney - No
So it looks like in the 16 cases where a Vice-President could have been nominated as their parties nominee, it has only happened 8 times. But, 4 of the 8 have happened in the last 52 years, so it sure does seem like that’s the case in modern history.