Say what? That makes no sense whatsoever. Senator Ethanol was a horrible choice, wasn't much of a conservative either, but the party pragmatically lined up behind him because of the perception it was his turn.
Well I do remember 1996, and to be quite frank, we did not have any real good candidates that year. Lamar Alexander and Steve Forbes were about the only real ones that had a remote chance, and quite frankly Bob Dole had the best chance out of all of them.