Inevitably, tributes to and obituaries for Alan Simpson will recall how the three-term former senator, who died Friday at 93, was a moderate Republican who bridged party gaps during his stint in the Senate from 1978-96.
True, the 6-foot-7-inch man from Wyoming always seemed irked by those he dubbed “the right-wing nutjobs.” In 2013, he recalled to Newsmax in his own unique way how he was at the Young Republican National Convention in San Francisco a half-century before as conservatives devoted to the presidential candidacy of Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater took over: “I remember a bunch of bushy-tailed young guys at the YR nuthouse.”
When George H.W. Bush, a close friend for more than a quarter century, was nominated for president in 1988, speculation was rampant Simpson would be his vice president. But the Wyoming man knew his pro-choice stand on abortion and support of the fledgling gay-rights movement made a Bush-Simpson ticket out of the question.
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