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2016 Postmortem

packman

(16,296 posts) Mon Feb 24, 2014, 02:55 PM Feb 2014

Republicans - It's all in the Family

Do you realize that there has NOT been a Rep. party Presidential win since 1928 without either a Bush or a Nixon on the ticket?

Nixon VP to Ike
Bush VP to Reagan

and, of course, Bush the Elder and Bush the Dummy

This goes back to Herbert Hoover times. Basically it means that for over 7 decades Repubican America has elected its Presidents from only 7 different families. And that defines a conservative - the old , comfortable shoes.