If Marc Ambinder can do it, so can I.
Let me start out on a note of agreement:
Republicans tend to pick the next guy in line.
As I will demonstrate below, Republicans do in fact have a hierarchy in terms of determining who will be the nominee of their party. Ambinder and I disagree, however, on who the next "guy" in line will be:
Strangely enough, the next guy in line is now Sarah Palin, by virtue of her being the VP nominee this year.
History doesn't show this to be the case.
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