Could running mate Ryan run the country?

That was a huge mistake on Ike’s part.

I’m quite sure that after the Bay of Pigs Eisenhower knew that. But in historical retrospect, Eisenhower would not rate as a conservative today, and he beat conservatives Taft (with a token boomlet for McArthur) for the Republican nomination. But the tipoff is the fact that Eisenhower could have had the Democratic nomination for the asking; both parties courted him.

Khrushchev would’ve almost certainly never tried that missile in Cuba crap on Dick Nixon, and I don’t see Nixon abandoning the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Well, the occasion for the missiles wouldn’t have arisen if the Bay of Pigs had been a success instead of a disaster. The interesting question is whether the Berlin Wall would still have gone up, and how Nixon would have reacted if so.

41 posted on 08/19/2012 2:51:30 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which Â“liberalism" coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)

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