Nomination Quotes
Note that his beginning of the quote mimics General Sherman’s famous quotation about the Presidency.
During the Republican National Convention of 1920, when the delegates were deadlocked between four candidates, Daugherty told the press:
He saw Obama’s name as a fatal problem with the American Electorate which turned out to be more tolerant than Brown gave them credit for.
He was a liberal Republican in an era where the Republican paty was controlled by arch conservatives, the Tea Party extremists, and evangelical Protestants while Gullani was divorced, a Catholic, and lived openly with a woman to whom he was not married. He supported a woman’s right to abortion and gay rights.
He had served as VP with Teddy Roosevelt who was not going to run in 1908 and Fairbanks wanted the job. This statement was made because as the sitting VP he would easily be nominated for the same role and he didn’t want that. TR did not support him however and instead endorsed Taft who with TR’s support won the nomination and the General Election. When TR ran again in 1912 on the Bull Moose ticket, Fairbanks agreed to run as the VP candidate with Charles Evans Hughes and “pay” TR back as Hughes, a brilliant but pompous fellow was expected to win handily with TR’s ex VP—Fairbanks—running with him. However, Hughes and TR split the Republican vote, and Democrat Woodrow Wilson won the Presidency to the shock of Hughes and Fairbanks. They came in 3rd with TR outpolling them.
Commenting on his selection of Dan Quayle as his Vice-Presidential running mate:
