Dan Quayle made a big political mistake in not returning to Indiana and running for governor after Bush 41 and he were defeated in 1992. The last non-current office holder to successfully run for President was Richard Nixon and that was in 1968.
Concurring thud-bump. He could be presidential timber about 16 years out, and he needs gubernatorial experience and maybe a term in the Senate (that's 14 years right there), or maybe get a term or two as vice-president, then he'll be ready to roll out.
Rudy Giuliani should consider taking on Hillary Clinton for the U.S. Senate seat from New York.
Anvil-throwing boomclang bump! That's the smartest thing I've heard all year. Damn, how'd you get so smart? Not from eating Frankenberries and Count Chocula for breakfast!
Rudy could give the Beastwoman the showdown and hide-stripping she so richly deserves (and we need). If he defeated her, the pressure comes off 2008 to find someone "super good" to resist the press propaganda about the inevitability of Hillary's anointment and coronation.
New Yorkers, in case Rudy won her senate seat, would then have to keep Beastie out of the governor's mansion, so that means the NY GOP will have to do some talent-development tout-de-suite to find a successor to Pataki.
Dan Quayle made a big political mistake in not returning to Indiana and running for governor after Bush 41 and he were defeated in 1992.
That's true. We lost a talent when Quayle muffed it. He could go back to the senate, possibly. He has beaucoup experience with nuclear-arms reduction and proliferation, and since Marilyn's a successful attorney, they'd be a power couple again -- and the GOP could do worse than to develop Marilyn Quayle, who is said to be good enough to put Dan in the shade in a raw talentfest. She lacks the experience, though.
The last non-current office holder to successfully run for President was Richard Nixon and that was in 1968.
I didn't realize it had been that long, but yes, it's almost the same as that old saw, that you need to have a job, to be offered a job.