The last Republican nominee to run for president, i.e., one with the smarts to do the job right, was Gerald Ford, and he was not even a party-wide selection. Ford stumbled into the job because of Watergate and Nixon’s need to appoint a vice president who would sail through Congress. George HW Bush and John McCain, by themselves, had the smarts, but I disqualify them because they selected nudniks as their running mates.
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