GOP Acceptance Speech Appropriate More Today

Miller Center University of Va ^ | Warren G, Harding

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The menacing tendency of the present day is not chargeable wholly to the unsettled and fevered conditions caused by the war. The manifest weakness in popular government lies in the temptation to appeal to grouped citizenship for political advantage. There is no greater peril. The Constitution contemplates no class and recognizes no group. It broadly includes all the people, with specific recognition for none, and the highest consecration we can make today is a committal of the Republican Party to that saving constitutionalism which contemplates all America as one people, and holds just government free from influence on the one hand and unmoved by intimidation on the other.

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The similarities between the social and economic conditions after President Wilson and President Obama are striking. The GOP response from Senator Warren G. Harding were prefect. We should consider pulling these out of moth balls and applying them to today.

This is only part of his GOP acceptance speech. The complete speech hits on many areas. I recommend it be read.

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Here’s a link to the whole speech: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=76198

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Excellent post. The progressives slandered and tarnished Harding for his opposition to the agenda unmercifully.