Posted on 01/12/2022 2:20:43 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Joking about a subject means little. Goldwater would’ve stopped that insanity under LBJ and been very decisive in handling Vietnam. Of course, had Nixon not had the Presidency stolen from him in 1960...
No LBJ without JFK. This was the big government mantra. The urban leftists wanted this garbage (look at Mayor Cavanagh in Detroit of the time), and all it did was drop a nuclear bomb on the Black community. It has never recovered.
Nixon was always as much a Globalist as Cruz is.
Goldwater wasn’t going to be able to run a viable candidacy after JFK’s assassination. Had JFK lived, we’d have been able to have a vote of confidence on what was a disastrous term in office for which he was woefully unprepared for.
As I said, a Nixon Administration from 1961-1969 was not what we got from 1969-74. We would’ve all been better off for it across the board.
Assessing Reagan vs. Trump is more like apples vs. oranges. Technically it took Reagan about 2 years to get the economy rolling again. Trump got it rolling before he even took office. Reagan was elected and governed in an era that was more united (and sane) than today. Trump had to operate in a minefield built by both parties and faced the unprecedented situation of criminal insurrection aimed at him by the Derp State and a fraudulent election in 2020.
In the past century there has only been three great Presidents: Trump, Reagan and Warren Harding. Harding was the last President to be able to actually shrink the size of the government and cut taxes to unleash the 1920s economic boom in record time (he inherited a recession from Wilson). He is loathed by the left because he proved the Socialist policies of Wilson & FDR only worsened our nation beyond comprehension.
You don’t know what Nixon would’ve been from 1961-69. One thing was clear, he did not fear that nutjob Khrushchev as JFK did, and he would not have hesitated to liberate both Cuba and taken an early and decisive approach to Vietnam. He could’ve been a great President in that era. But just like with 2020, had the race stolen from him by someone who had no business ever being President (let alone Senator).
Constitutional ? Perhaps. But neither should exist in their present form. Social Security should’ve been privatized long ago (at the very least), if only to prevent the government from accessing and spending that money. As for Medicare and the like, the federal government has no business being involved in health care or welfare as such (or education, or countless other fields).
I still contented that Nixon ALWAYS would have advocated Progressive policies. One thing, JFk was for sound money, Nixon destroyed the Gold Standard. He should have been impeached for THAT.
Coolidge merely inherited Harding’s successful agenda, but the credit rests more with Harding. Coolidge is less perfect than a lot of Conservatives believe. He also, unfortunately, was responsible for putting a left-winger in as Attorney General and then putting him on the Supreme Court (Harlan Fiske Stone). Stone was so well regarded by FDR that he was elevated to Chief Justice. He’d be surpassed in “rotten-ness” by another RINO, Earl Warren.
Well, you see what we got with JFK and LBJ. Lost Cuba, lost Vietnam, lost all sense and reason with societal breakdown. Nixon could not have caused that kind of damage had he been there instead. That’s the reality.
But Harding was for that ridiculous world court.
And Trump spent way to much as well.
JFK would still have beaten Goldwater in 64, but it would have been a lot closer, and he would not have had the Democrat sweep into Congress that LBJ had.
Consider the time. It was believed by many that such a court might be able to prevent or curtail future wars. Nobody in the early 1920s wanted another world war.
Consider what was unleashed during his administration. He had little choice, unfortunately.
JFK was already starting to panic about 1964, he was in Texas to try to shore up the damage his reputation had taken (though I’ll add I don’t believe he carried the state in 1960, that was more LBJ’s part in stealing it). I absolutely believe he was quite vulnerable to any viable GOP nominee that year. The GOP, too, would’ve made some solid gains in Congress and taken back many of the lost Senate seats from the disastrous 1958 election under Eisenhower that wiped out the GOP for decades as a national majority.
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