Maybe it was my imagination, but I swear I heard someone on Fox News in the past day or two say that no one had ever been elected President who had never held a previous elected office.
Excuse me?
I'm not even going to bother to research this beyond my living memory. But. Dwight David Eisenhower was first elected President before I was born. I came into this world during his first term. But I do recall that he had never run for public office before his 1952 run for the Presidency. So....
It would be a trip if the first ever woman President of the United States happened to also be the first ever African-American President of the United States. But if that doesn't happen, it won't be because no one has ever been elected President who has never held a previous elected office. 'Cause that's just not so.
I'd still give the nod to Giuliani for the Republican ticket in 08, though, with Condi as #2. Now that would be interesting against Hillary and ... ???
Very late update: Ok, I suspected that this post was the result of some utterly irresponsible impulse, no doubt inspired by a few too many glasses of Zinfandel with dinner that night. And now, via Kesher Talk, I find undeniable confirmation of that suspicion. I hereby pledge to refrain from malinformed public speculation about the 2008 presidential race until at least 2007. Ok?
