CNNW Smerconish December 19, 2015
They say what the party nominates more establishment types, like bob dole or john mccain, mitt romney, those candidates lose. And it sounds compelling. But theres an alternate history. One that begins not with reagan, but with the drubbing that a very conservative, Barry Goldwater took in 1964. This school of thought says that today, even reagan himself couldnt get nominated in a party dominated by Tea Party Freedom caucus types. Mccain, romney, they didnt lose because they were insufficiently c...
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