Columnists keep bringing up George Wallace when they write (endlessly) about Donald Trump.
This time it's a column in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, wondering who in the world will run with Trump if he wins the nomination:
He then goes on to suggest Sarah Palin, who has endorsed Trump, as the billionaire's running mate.
Why not? stranger things have happened.
"One of Wallace's first choices as running mate was President Eisenhower's Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, who believed that civil rights was "a tool of communist deception" and that "wickedness is rapidly expanding in every segment of our society." Mr. Benson, who would later become president of the Mormon church, was cautioned by its leaders that running with Wallace would embarrass the church.
Wallace then called on FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, but he didn't even respond to Wallace's overture. Next was Happy Chandler, a former governor of Kentucky and commissioner of baseball. He wasn't interested. Not a single Republican member of the House of Representatives showed any interest, either.
That left retired Air Force General Curtis LeMay, who, as soon as he was chosen, began babbling about dropping atomic bombs on the enemy in Vietnam, This led Hubert Humphrey to christen the ticket "the Bombsey Twins."
He then goes on to suggest Sarah Palin, who has endorsed Trump, as the billionaire's running mate.
Why not? stranger things have happened.
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