Friday, June 29, 2012
On Republicans from the Past and Whether They Would be Accepted by Today's Republican Party
1) Dwight Eisenhower - no.......2) Jerry Ford - no.......3) Howard Baker - no.......4) Lowell Weicker - hell no!......5) Ed Brooke - no.......6) Jacob Javits - no.......7) Stewart McKinney - no.......8) Nelson Rockefeller - no.......9) Richard Schweiker - no.......10) Alan Simpson - no.......11) John Heinz - no.......12) William Cohen - no.......13) Jim Jeffords - no.......14) Warren Rudman - no.......15) William Weld - no.......16) Margaret Chase Smith - no.......17) Nancy Kassebaum - no.......18) John Danforth - no.......19) John Anderson - no.......20) Millicent Fenwick - no.......21) Harold Stassen - no.......22) Wendell Willkie - no.......23) Thomas Kean - no.......24) Fiorello La Guardia - no.......25) Jim Leach - no.......26) Mark Hatfield - no.......27) John Chaffee - no.......28) Bob Packwood - no (and, no, not because of his groping of women).......29) Christie Todd Whitman - no.......30) Chuck Percy - no.......31) Chuck Hagel - no.......32) George H.W. Bush - no.......33) Tom Ridge - no.......34) John Lindsay - no.......35) Ronald Reagan - maybe.......36) Bob Dole - maybe not.......37) Barry Goldwater - no (a liberal on social issues, he would have been driven to the libertarian side).
Reagan - Maybr not. Nope, likely not.
ReplyDeleteRonald Reagan raised taxes and granted amnesty. He's a "no". Still one of our worst presidents though.
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DeleteAbe Lincoln? Naw, he invented the
ReplyDeleteprogressive income tax, the rino.
Abe Lincoln would be a no, BB Idaho, and so, too, would TR, Dewey, and Alf Landon.
ReplyDeleteBoth parties have changed significantly over the years. Some changes have been good and some changes have not.
ReplyDeleteWill, are you familiar with this rebuttal to the Democratic/moderate meme about "good conservatives"?
ReplyDeleteJonah Goldberg, The Myth of the Good Conservative
I would be curious to hear your rebuttal to Mr Goldberg.
The Heathen Republican - I like Goldberg, however, with respect to his comment on Reagan I would say there is some spin going on there. IMO.
ReplyDeleteThat's an interesting article, HR. But Mr. Goldberg is looking at the entire post-Reagan era. I'm just looking at the past 2 years or so; the fact that none of those candidates on stage raised their hand on a budget deal of 10 (spending cuts) to 1 (tax increases). I'm sorry, but I simply cannot see Chuck Percy and Howard Baker being that recalcitrant.
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