Not going to happen. It gives gender balance, but no regional or ideological balance.
Every RINO needs a conservative running mate on the ticket to excite the base and every conservative needs a RINO to bring in the GOP establishment's money and organization. That's how it has been in every election since World War II and that's how it will continue to be.
The sole exception was 1964, a disaster year for the GOP. 1952 and 1956 had two RINOs on the ticket, but Nixon was perceived as a conservative at the time. Ditto for 1976 with Bob Dole.
but Nixon was perceived as a conservative at the time. Ditto for 1976 with Bob Dole.
You need some remedial straining, neither Dole nor Kemp were ever considered conservatives. "96" was an election that was given to Clinton the day Dole was told by the establishment that he was next.
I remember the day he announced he was running. My wife and I were in Reno, and CNN was on the motel room TV.
I told my wife then, that if Bob Dole gets the nomination Clinton will be re-elected. I was right.
I did support him, and I did fight to get him elected once he won the nomination, but I knew in my heart that he was a feeble choice.
I was in the audience when he fell off the stage here in Chico. When a Presidential candidate comes to Chico to campaign, you know he is TOAST!
Unlike "92", the exit polling showed that even if the hand grenade with a bad haircut (Perot) was not running, Clinton still would have won.
Also, while Kemp was Reagan's point man on fiscal matters, he was a socially liberal. I remember him attacking us in California for wanting to crack down on the illegal aliens collecting government handouts. Kemp bashed us as being too extreme.
The "96" Republican ticket had two Establishment Rinos that lost to a man a true conservative would have defeated in a landslide.