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Why the GOP Should Emulate John F. Kennedy in the 2016 White House Race
Reason Magazine ^ | February 2, 2015 | Ira Stoll

Posted on 02/02/2015 7:08:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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Remember, Dr. Krauthammer is a Democrat who worked for President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Fritz Mondale.
1 posted on 02/02/2015 7:08:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Emulate Coolidge or don’t waste our time.


2 posted on 02/02/2015 7:09:38 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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The Libertarian position is that Republicans should try to be more like Democrats?

I guess that's why we call them Liberaltarians.

3 posted on 02/02/2015 7:12:30 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Malort, turning taste-buds into taste-foes for generations.)
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FWIW, JFK sponsored a tax cut that yielded additional revenue, just as Coolidge had before him and as Reagan and Bush the Younger would do after him.

His speech to the Economic Club of New York on the subject is excellent.


4 posted on 02/02/2015 7:13:21 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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Don't emulate, be true to what you are.
Say what you do and do what you say and then you don't have to work so hard to be trusted.

5 posted on 02/02/2015 7:16:04 PM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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I’m unsure, are they saying that Jeb should associate with organized crime figures and have adulterous affairs? Or are they saying that his daddy should buy the election for him? Or all of the above?


6 posted on 02/02/2015 7:16:28 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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For what it is worth JFK unionized government and gave us this immigration nightmare we have, and created the 1960s by getting us into Vietnam war and losing the attack on Cuba.


7 posted on 02/02/2015 7:19:01 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Steal the election?


8 posted on 02/02/2015 7:34:55 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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So they should get Rahmbo to deliver the winning votes?


9 posted on 02/02/2015 7:40:08 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the fascists.)
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Kennedy won the election by cheating. He had family connections with the Chicago Mafia, who handed him Illinois by stacking the ballots, and he made a deal with LBJ, who handed him Texas by stacking the ballots.

Then he went on to the Bay of Pigs, and one disaster after another, including ordering the assassination of our ally the President of South Vietnam, which guaranteed that we would eventually lose the war.

The News Media invented Camelot.


10 posted on 02/02/2015 7:51:19 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: BitWielder1

Nicely put!


11 posted on 02/02/2015 7:54:17 PM PST by funfan
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt opposed government unions he “felt there wasn’t a need in the public sector to have collective bargaining because the government is the people.” “Public sector unions insist on laws that serve their interests — at the expense of the common good.”

JFK betrayed the Cubans freedom fighters in the Bay of Pigs, and the U.S.in the accords with Nikita Khrushchev during the October Missile Crisis when, in contravention of the Monroe Doctrine, JFK accepted an enemy base form an extra-hemispheric potency base in Cuba, 90 miles from Florida, an immensely costly error for the United States and the cause of freedom in Latin America.


12 posted on 02/02/2015 8:00:11 PM PST by Dqban22 (Hpo<p> http://i.imgur.com/26RbAPxjpg)
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I think Rubio is going to emerge from the first few primary debates as a prety attractive candidate for many.


13 posted on 02/02/2015 8:38:32 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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You don’t think his “Gang of Eight” immigration shenanigans will hurt him?


14 posted on 02/02/2015 8:39:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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Don’t forget his rocking chair, and Marilyn.

Emulate those, GOP!


15 posted on 02/02/2015 9:03:02 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
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I didn’t know he made an actual prediction. I thought he was just allocating his chips. Last I heard, he increased his chips on Walker the next week.


16 posted on 02/02/2015 9:28:05 PM PST by LT Brass Bancroft
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Remember, Dr. Krauthammer is a Democrat who worked for President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Fritz Mondale.

Is he still a Democrat?

17 posted on 02/02/2015 10:44:34 PM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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Most posters here never heard JFK’s speech on tax cuts to Economic Club of New York. I am old enough to have seen every one of his speeches and press conferences.

No president since JFK comes even close to the charisma of JFK. Not even Reagan. Crowds in every country he visited were enormous. He was loved and admired the world over.

I know JFK, and Rubio is no JFK. But he is OK.


18 posted on 02/02/2015 11:29:33 PM PST by entropy12 (Dumb and Dumber to borrow money from China to protect oil flow to China from middle-east.)
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Bush and Kennedy also both wrote books...

Don't know much about Jebbie's writing abilities, but Saint Jack never wrote a book in his life.

19 posted on 02/03/2015 12:21:21 AM PST by metesky (My investment program is holding steady @ $0.05 cents a can.)
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Stoll’s a smart guy, but clearly too close to his own material if he thinks the present-day Kennedys are going to take satisfaction in any modern GOP positions.


20 posted on 02/03/2015 4:47:37 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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