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...that topic (up in Kennebunkport, he's probably already got a short list in his head). He had been talked up for the Veep's spot in 1968, 1976 and of course finally snared it in 1980. That year, he had run an underdog's race against Ronald Reagan for the nomination, won or came in second in most contests and reluctantly ended his campaign after the Michigan primary. When he dropped out, few people thought Reagan would tap his top rival to be his partner. Reagan didn't care for Bush much, found...
...August of that year, Reagan had indeed tapped Bush to be his Number Two -- in part to unify the party, because the other options were worse, but also because Bush would have been a credible president if anything happened to a 68-year-old Reagan. Amid all the talk about who McCain might pick as his partner today, it's wholly accurate to say Mitt Romney is unlikely to get that call from Sedona. There is no love between McCain and Romney; the two men don't care for each other, come from different wings of their party and have...
...even turned over his donor lists. And Romney has one other factor in his favor. When the standard bearer would be the oldest president in history (72 on inauguration day), the party needs someone the country can imagine as President nearby. On that score, McCain's choices, like Reagan's in 1980, are limited. Romney is an unlikely Number Two. But I'm prepared to be, as Bush wrote, surprised...
Somewhere in the national mall, these words need to be chiseled in granite for the children of our children to read, showing that in this year there was a recognition of reality: "The message many Republicans took from Reagan's successes of the '80s and still preach today is that tax cuts pay for themselves. That's nonsense." David C. Hoffmeister, EASTON...
...threat to U.S. national security. Their asinine chatter about killing people and their anti-American sloganeering were as ineffective as their bombs. But they did real harm. Their victims were liberals: the millions of people who were part of the mainstream antiwar movement and who later voted against Ronald Reagan. These people opposed the Vietnam War but didn't hate their country. They were horrified by violence and sincerely wanted the war to end. They believed in democracy, even when dismayed by the result. The slogan of the Underground, by contrast, was "Bring the war home." For strategic and psychological...