"In 1980 Ronald Reagan won the Republican nomination. He beat a future president, George H.W. Bush; two future Senate majority leaders, Howard Baker and Bob Dole; and two lesser-known congressmen. This year Mitt Romney won the GOP nomination. He beat aradio host, a disgraced former House speaker, a defeated Senate candidate, a former appointee of the Obama administration, a tongue-tied Texas governor, a prevaricatingreligious zealot who happens to serve in the House of Representatives and a cranky libertarian doctor. Where did all the talent go?"
This is the way to convince thinking voters that the GOP is balanced?
Here is the whole article if you are interested.
The Whole Article
Except that back in 1980, Cohen was calling GHWB a greedy rich dilettante, Baker a Republican war-monger and Dole an out-of-touch codger. Nice try!
ReplyDelete(If memory serves, didn't Obama defeat a scandal-ridden backwoods Arkansas lawyer for the Dem nomination?)