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Those wondering whether Perot has a change to play spoiler in this election needn't look past the 1912 race, in which Roosevelt drew enough votes from William Howard Taft to give Woodrow Wilson victory by plurality...
...William McKinley (1896 and 1900) and William Howard Taft...
...reception -- Herbert Hoover called him "the reincarnation of St. Paul" -- faded over the months when he took his "Crusade" to the people. The lofty rhetoric, repeated from town to town, took on a road-show tinniness. His act verged on self-caricature. Yet enough appeal remained for Robert Taft, who was seeking the Republican presidential nomination, to offer him the vice-presidential slot. When MacArthur said he did not want to waste his time presiding over the Senate, Taft desperately offered to create a special role for him as overseer of military matters, his "deputy Commander in Chief." MacArthur said...
Unfortunately for Buchanan, paleocon-servatism was dispatched by the rank-and-file of the Republican party 40 years ago. In 1952, Sen. Robert A. Taft, "Mr. Republican," met defeat at the hands of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ike, of course, had spent the primary season in Europe as Supreme Allied Commander...
Discomfort with Taft's paleoconservatism, seen as discredited by the failure of high tariffs, the global implications of World War II and the formation of the Soviet Bloc, was strong enough to carry Ike to the nomination and eventual victory. While it is not true that this was the final defeat of paleoconservatives, Taft's failed candidacy was the closest such activists ever came to capturing the big prize in the postwar...