Posted on 02/16/2014 3:44:15 PM PST by cradle of freedom
Well, here’s the view of an Irish tavern owner/local politician who was a Pennsylvania delegate at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 conventions. He was my wife’s grandfather, and here’s what the family says he said: In 68, the death of RFK and the whole Gene McCarthy/Chicago/”The whole world is watching” convention threw the democratic party into chaos. At that point the Jerry Rubin/Abbie Hoffman “Chicago 8” and their crazy commie cohorts basically took the reins of the party. In 72, they nominated McGovern, and the party has been insane ever since, though considered “cool” by the media.
“He hated the effing commies and warned against them when he wasnt screwing everything that moved and they killed him.”
Thank you. JFK was superior to any general election presidential candidate running since the Age of Reagan.
If we’d had the same media in ‘44 at the Battle of the Bulge as we did in ‘68, we’d probably lost the war. Eisenhower would have been recalled and there would have been a massive investigation about the failure of intelligence.
It would have been a complete mess.
The similarities between Tet and the BoB are very similar. They were both last ditch efforts by a defeated enemy.
They were aimed to provide a political solution to a military problem. One succeeded and the other failed.
The rest as they say is history.
I was never in doubt that the North Vietnamese Winter-Spring Offensive--the Tet attacks and the follow-on strikes which took place in May--was a Communist failure and a victory for the West and was puzzled as to why so many thought otherwise. Maybe it's because I paid close attention to news reports that clearly showed that the Communists were losing and got my TV news from George Putnam and not Walter Cronkite.
Robert Bork's Slouching book, detailed the take-over by what Bork called the Cultural Marxists. Political Science professors might use the terms Cultural Elitists or Intellectual Elitists.
Bork identified one of the early events in the take-over of the dem party as the Port Huron Statement in 1962. And the final battle for control happened at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, when the boomers(led by the SDS) rioted in the streets and the Cultural Elitists rioted on the floor of the convention.
In the seventies, the GOP used Nixon's Southern Strategy to bring the Cultural Populists out of the democrat party into the republican party.
Also in the seventies, the liberal Jewish hawks left the dem party to become conservative Jewish hawks in the GOP and would become known as Neoconservatives or Neocons.
All you have to do to bring that cartoon up to date is replace Henry Wallace with Elizabeth Warren, Donald Richberg with Cass Sunstein, Rexford Tugwell with Van Jones, Joseph Stalin with Vladimir Putin, and Harold L. Ickes with Harold M. Ickes.
The Democtats have always been about slavery.
In a personal letter to the vice president in 1960, this is how Reagan described JFK.
“One last thought,— shouldn’t some one tag Mr. Kennedy’s bold new imaginative program with it’s proper age? Under the tousled boyish hair cut it is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Govt. being Big Brother to us all. Hitler called his “State Socialism” and way before him it was “benevolent monarchy.””
Profound, very profound. I too have mentioned the same not as eloquently as you just have.
Profound, very profound. I too have mentioned the same not as eloquently as you just have.
9/11
Just weeks later Bill Clinton while in Europe condemned the United States stating we deserved it. Since then the democrats like they did in Vietnam have undermined the country in a time of war and put into office obama who is supporting the very terrorists who brought about 9/11
And only 7 years after 9/11, Americans elected a Muslim. Seems like we’re not as tough as we used to be. I don’t recall electing any fascists after Pearl Harbor.
His Supreme Court nominee, Whizzer White, was the best justice of the Supreme Court during his time. He was just as good as Scalia and Thomas.
I have this book, it is excellant.
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