[Alberta's Child]

Ronald McDonald would have won the 1968 election as a Republican candidate, with the Vietnam War such a disaster on the national stage.

In fact, the better parallel for the 1968 election would be the 2008 election. Ronald McDonald would have won that election, too -- if he ran as a Democrat.

[RedStateRocker]

You are quite right on that point.

Still, I think her handlers are using pretty much the same strategies that worked for Nixon, another unlikable, ungraceful, seemingly paranoid poor speaker to minimize weaknesses.