[aristeides]

Someone with your screen name may be interested to learn that Bob Taft didn't get the Republican nomination in 1940 because the isolationist chairman of the convention was assassinated by British intelligence in cooperation with the FDR administration, at least if we are to believe Gore Vidal's novel Golden Age.

[Clemenza]

Let's not forget that the British Foreign Service sent an agent to seduce "isolationist" Senator Arthur Vandenberg and then blackmailed said Senator into supporting entry into the war.

[Taft in '52]

Someone with your screen name may be interested to learn that Bob Taft didn't get the Republican nomination in 1940 because the isolationist chairman of the convention was assassinated by British intelligence in cooperation with the FDR administration, at least if we are to believe Gore Vidal's novel Golden Age.

While a Gore Vidal novel might not be the most reliable historical source, it's interesting that you should bring up the 1940 Republican National Convention, which a group of fat cat kingmakers stampeded in order to nominate Wendell Willkie, a lawyer who had held no previous office, and whose views were not all that different from FDR's. I see a parallel in California, in which a group of fat cats are stampeding the Republican voters into backing an actor who has held no previous office and whose views are not all that different from his Democratic opponents, Gray Davis and Cruz Bustamante.