“But I am tired of all the teasing...getting the nomination is a grind...popular or not.
Has anyone come in late?”
I get the impression that you’re an old-timer, like me.
Remember 1968?
Lyndon Johnson, Gene McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey.
And who was it who jumped in VERY late in the primaries, and won in California, and then....?
If Kennedy hadn’t been assassinated, he’d have won the nomination and most likely would have beat Nixon, as well.
43 years later, it may not be possible to “enter late” and win.
But then again, it just might — IF you’re the right person with the right themes and charisma.
Just sayin’...
Timing is everything if you are playing to win. Sarah has plenty of time. She could skip Iowa and N.H. and still win. In fact that just might be a smart play.
Well I hope so if she wants it and it looks like she might
Nixon....I followed politics even then but only a teen
My dad had been Ike and then Barry....he liked Nixon ok...
He voted Gop nationally but like Sonny Montgomery and John Stennis locally....he did like the hard right GOP..but not the New England branch....he thought Dirkson a moderate
Main thing I recall about 68 election are the rumors the freaks dosed McCarty and of course how LBJ backed out....that was a man hated in white Dixie