Political Candidacy Quotes
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.
This is one of the great erroneous predictions of American political history. He was not nominated on the second ballot. Nor on the third; Lincoln was
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.
