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Mr Khan said: John Adams: Blatant Federal overreach, namely in the form of the Alien & Sedition act, a law very blatantly opposed to the First Amendment in a way that we've pretty much never seen since then. Also a lot of foreign meddling in a time when America had no stomach for it. John Q. Adams: Used the so-called "Corrupt Bargain" to get into office, which people basically saw as him stealing the election Martin Van Buren: Presided over the Panic of 1837 when America went bankrupt Grover Cleveland: Opposed the influence of big business at a time when big business was at its absolute height of influence in American politics Benjamin Harrison: A ruinous tariff. William Taft: Shift in the system with TR running for another term, split the Republican electorate. Herbert Hoover: Great Depression Gerald Ford: Pardoning Nixon for Watergate James Carter: Tehran Hostage Crisis George Bush (1): Ross Perot serving as a glitch in the system. |
Thanks for that, given me a lot of stuff to read in to!
As an aside, the thing that amazes me is that, if we all know that an incumbent is hard to beat, why do people like Mitt Romney spend so much money? I mean, he's not daft, he must know that he's got a cat in hell's chance of winning. Why not just wait until 2016? I can see why candidates like Paul would run, because it was about bringing a certain message to the platform, or people like Gingrich, because it's a publicity stunt. But Romney seems to really want this job...
Maybe Romney knows that, with a stronger bunch of candidates, he has less chance of getting the nomination... so he knows he's bottom of the barrel, which means he knows that he has even less chance of winning the Presidential.
Just seems like such an odd decision for the man.
