Old war horse candidates are neither novel nor transformative; and they lose. Bill Whalen @Hooverwhalen
Image: War horse. (German soldier and his horse in the Russian SFSR, 1941.) Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution Area 45 podcast; in re: Warhorses whom the party calls on in instances of . . . McLaughlin piece in the National Review. Tom Dewey emerged in 1940, was the 1944 nominee against Roosevelt, and seemed to be the favorite in 1948 but lost to Truman. Bob Dole (age 73) was chosen by the GOP to go up against the extremely talented Bill Clinton. Biden will be 78 days after the election. Place-holder candidate. Nothing novel or transformative about any of these candidacies; need to get Democrats excited, not against someone else but in favor of this candidate. However, Ronald Reagan won on his third try. He was novel and transformative in his policies. ’Twas a good night for Joe Biden; the party coming in behind him. It’ll now be a question of enthusiasm. Biden is a creature of the swamp, of Washington; and there are the questions around Hunter Biden. With a 78-year-old who’s sometimes cranky, the vice-president will be [most important]; and the VP will have a leg up on the 2024 race. .. National Review's Dan McLaughlin: “Parties looking to unseat an incumbent have often run Biden-style “old warhorse” candidates and lost. John Kerry in 2004, Bob Dole in 1996, Walter Mondale in 1984, John McCain in 2008 and Hubert Humphrey in 1968 were all old warhorses who lost." .. .. .. Photographer | Geller / Title | Deutsch: Russland, Soldat, Pferd im Winter Sowjetunion. Soldat mit Maschinenpistole (MP) und weißem Wintermantel neben Panje-Pferd (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjepferd) in verschneiter Landschaft; PK 694English: Russia, soldier, horse in winter. Soldier with machine-pistol and white winter coat with a cart horse in snow-covered landscape / Depicted place | Russia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Russia) / Date | 1941 / Collection | German Federal Archives (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:German_Federal_Archives) Current location | Propagandakompanien der Wehrmacht - Heer und Luftwaffe (Bild 101 I) / Accession number | Bild 101I-215-0366-03A (https://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/dba/de/search/?query=Bild+101I-215-0366-03A) / Source | This image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive (http://www.bundesarchiv.de/) (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bundesarchiv) . The German Federal Archive guarantees an authentic representation only using the originals (negative and/or positive), resp. the digitalization of the originals as provided by the Digital Image Archive (http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/) . Licensing | This file is licensed under the Creative Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Creative_Commons) Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en) license. Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-215-0366-03A / Geller / CC-BY-SA 3.0 You are free:to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the workto remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions:attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-considerations/compatible-licenses) as the original.