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Trump Floats Scott Brown as VP Pick (Two Yankees for GOP = Hillary Clinton as President)
newamax ^ | 1/16/16 | t beamon

Posted on 01/16/2016 3:50:57 PM PST by doldrumsforgop

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To: sitetest

Brown took Edward Kennedy’s seat back for the people of MA and YES there were folks here suggesting him for the national ticket.

So your memory of things is faulty (surprise)... kind of like Cruz and his Wall St. loans.


61 posted on 01/16/2016 6:26:36 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: doldrumsforgop
Yankee Schmankee!

NOT SCOTT!

62 posted on 01/16/2016 6:43:21 PM PST by Savage Beast (The more Europeans try to escape the past, the more they damn themselves to repeat it.)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

“Vote Trump and you will be saluted across the country...vote Cruz...and it means very little ....if nothing!!! Your choice!!! Time to be real, pragmatic, focused and right!!!”

Ah, free advice from Trumpbots about how Iowans are supposed to vote. If you are so confident that Trump wiped the floor with Cruz during that NY values exchange, why do you feel the need to tell Iowans how to vote? Shouldn’t they already be so enamored with Trump’s brilliance that they will be crawling across broken glass in -50 temps to caucus for him on their own?


63 posted on 01/16/2016 6:49:09 PM PST by lquist1
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To: mac_truck

My memory is pretty good. Many were in favor of Brown because we recognized that he was probably as good as we could get in Massachusetts , and he was a MILLION times better than kennedy. But many acknowledged that he would be flawed as a national candidate. Others were against him because he was too liberal, and gaining the Senate seat wasn’t worth it.

But, it would take trump cultists to justify this one.


64 posted on 01/16/2016 6:55:50 PM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: TBP

My point was that Nixon, for some crazy reason, picked the guy Kennedy had beaten for US Senate to be his running mate from the same state as Kennedy.

Is that nuts or what?

Wow. What a brilliant political strategy. Let’s make this campaign about Massachusetts, Nixon must have said. What an idiot.

He should have picked Robert Taft of Ohio, or someone like that.


65 posted on 01/16/2016 7:23:57 PM PST by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: doldrumsforgop

Nope. Cruz would be a good choice.


66 posted on 01/16/2016 7:37:13 PM PST by SoFloFreeper (Obama hates the three Cs: Christianity, Constitution, and capitalism.)
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey

Bob Taft would have been excellent, but he died n 1953. He could have picked Goldwater — indeed, there was a Goldwater for VP boomlet at the convention, which Goldwater himself quashed. There were other choices, such as Norris Cotton, Roman Hruska, Karl Mundt, etc. (John Tower was not yet n the Senate, indeed lost the Senate election that year — and never stopped running until he won the special election.)There were other choices as well.


67 posted on 01/16/2016 7:49:32 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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My memory is pretty good.

Actually no it isn't...for one thing you mis-remember how big a deal it was for Republicans to win the special election for Dead Ted's Senate seat. That was a huge win for the right, a gigantic psychological boost that presaged the 2010 Tea Party wins in November.

I also took a minute to revisit some Jan 2010 Scott Brown threads and found them to be almost 100% favorable to his campaign...go figure.

68 posted on 01/16/2016 8:01:04 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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I was thinking Taft might have been dead. So he runs in 52 and dies in 53. Unreal.

But anybody but Lodge. What a stupid choice. George Romney, Alice Longworth Roosevelt. Anyone. Goldwater, yes. Anyone.


69 posted on 01/16/2016 8:19:18 PM PST by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey

Nixon was between a rock and a hard place. Even Rocky would have been better political strategy than Lodge, but he was hated in his own party.

Still, the Rockefeller wing wouldn’t support anyone too conservative (i.e., Goldwater or the like) and the Goldwater wing was not about to support Rocky. So you pick someone inoffensive.

Nixon faced the same challege in 1968. That’s how he wound up with Agnew.


70 posted on 01/16/2016 8:24:25 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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