Dewey Defeats Obama !
“Some 63 years and $15 trillion in debt later, with the country teetering on financial disaster and the tidal wave of un-payable entitlements looming, the reason so many of those early conservatives were horrified at what Dewey proposed has come all too vividly clear. If Thomas E. Dewey had lived long enough to read Mark Levin’s Ameritopia, even Dewey might finally understand what this feckless, wimpy moderation of conservatism has wrought.
And how did Dewey think the Republican Party would fare if it failed to nominate moderate candidates who did not view the GOP as …and you’ll love this Dewey quote…a “liberal and progressive party”? What would happen politically were the GOP to return to its origins and nominate a conservative? Said Dewey: “You can bury the Republican Party as the deadest pigeon in the country.”
In short, the man who had just finished losing the White House for the second time in a row as a moderate — following a string of losing moderate GOP presidential campaigns featuring names like Hoover, Landon, and Willkie — had all by himself raised the moderate losing streak to five in a row. Yet Dewey had the gall to insist that nominating a conservative would result in: losing the White House.”
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/01/31/newt-battles-mush-from-the-wim/