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The strange case of Mitt Romney’s multiple 1948 personalities
The Daily Caller ^ | February 27, 2012 | David Pietrusza

Posted on 11/07/2012 12:54:51 PM PST by statestreet

It is a rare Midwestern morning when a major candidate can conjure up to comparisons to three candidates from a single past presidential election.

But Mitt Romney’s bizarre recent Ford Field appearance somehow managed to remind historians of not one, not two, but three major contenders in 1948’s historic presidential contest: the over-confident Thomas E. Dewey, the scrappy Harry S. Truman and the dour conservative Robert A. Taft.

Now, general Mitt Romney-Tom Dewey comparisons are nothing new. Both Romney and Dewey served as moderate-to-liberal Eastern Republican governors. Both featured bland, poll-driven messages. Both had repeatedly sought the presidency (Dewey in 1940, 1944 and 1948). Both were born in Michigan but headed east for greener pastures.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1948; dewey; romney
From February 2012.
1 posted on 11/07/2012 12:54:57 PM PST by statestreet
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To: statestreet

Wasn’t Henry Wallace also a big player in the 1948 election?


2 posted on 11/07/2012 1:17:29 PM PST by Borges
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To: Borges

yes he ran under the Progressive party.


3 posted on 11/07/2012 1:29:29 PM PST by Perdogg
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To: Borges

If there was no Obama, Henry Wallace would have probably won in 2008 and 2012 with no problem. That’s how bad the electorate has gotten.


4 posted on 11/07/2012 1:34:49 PM PST by princeofdarkness ( Nobama. No more. No way. November 2012.)
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To: statestreet
It is a rare Midwestern morning when a major candidate can conjure up to comparisons to three candidates from a single past presidential election.

But Mitt Romney’s bizarre recent Ford Field appearance somehow managed to remind historians of not one, not two, but three major contenders in 1948’s historic presidential contest: the over-confident Thomas E. Dewey, the scrappy Harry S. Truman and the dour conservative Robert A. Taft.

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Only if you've got a stupid book about the 1948 elections to flog.

Why are you recycling this old attack piece anyway?

5 posted on 11/07/2012 1:46:54 PM PST by x
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To: princeofdarkness

Wallace eventually endorsed Nixon in 1960.


6 posted on 11/07/2012 1:47:25 PM PST by Borges
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To: x

Maybe Romney should have read the book.


7 posted on 11/07/2012 1:49:35 PM PST by Cincinnatus
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To: Cincinnatus
Sure. Everybody has all the answers on the day after the big game and can say what should have been done and what shouldn't have been done. But the right course isn't obvious beforehand.

You try one strategy. It wins you some votes. It loses you others. People always say afterwards that you should have done what they (now) think you should have done. But if you'd tried that and it didn't work they'll say you should have done something else that they think (after the fact) would have worked.

I don't have much patience with cheap shots today.

8 posted on 11/07/2012 1:58:09 PM PST by x
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To: Cincinnatus

Romney’s shout ... “Thomas Dewey, you magnificent bastard !!!”


9 posted on 11/07/2012 2:05:27 PM PST by Patton@Bastogne (Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin will DEFEAT the Obama-Romney Socialist Gay-Marriage Axis of Evil)
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To: statestreet

Sucky article from a sucky website...won’t be fooled again.


10 posted on 11/07/2012 2:23:14 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Borges

Makes sense, since in a lot of ways, Nixon was a socialist.


11 posted on 11/07/2012 2:32:22 PM PST by conservativebuckeye
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To: Cincinnatus

“Maybe Romney should have read the book.”

Well.

Now he has the spare time.


12 posted on 11/07/2012 5:21:46 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Turns out that White Horse was just a whitewashed jackass.)
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