Posted on 09/30/2014 11:01:44 AM PDT by BeadCounter
Thank you for the detailed response. That is interesting and sounds like a topic to explore.
And thank you to everyone who posted.
It sounds like Wallace used the race issue as an opportunist.
Also of course, he ended up running for the I believe “American Independent Party” originating out of California, all of this is off the top of my head. That was 1968.
Allen Keyes ran for that party decades later, 2008.
IMHO, the American Independent Party has a good platform largely I’d say, much like the Constitution Party.
Yes, here is their history: http://aipca.org/history.html
Being from Alabama....I would note that Wallace wasn’t really a Democrat, independent, or Republican. He mostly blended into anything you desired, promising just about anything, and was simply a guy with a flair for public speeches (my dad took me one episode around 1966).
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/6973372956.html
“I regret having said to a group of peers that my Uncle M. L. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) was a Republican. My Grandfather, Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. was a registered Republican. Uncle M. L. was an independent. I assumed that since Granddaddy was a Republican, Uncle M. L. was too. “
—Alveda King
fyi
“Wallace’s foreign policy positions set him apart from the other candidates in the field. “If the Vietnam War was not winnable within 90 days of his taking office, Wallace pledged an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops. . . .
Wallace also called foreign-aid money ‘poured down a rat hole’ and demanded that European and Asian allies pay more for their defense.”[4] These stances were overshadowed by Wallace’s running mate, retired Air Force general Curtis LeMay, who implied he would use nuclear weapons to win the war.[5]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace_presidential_campaign,_1968
Thanks!
Brings back other memories, as I later enlisted and became a Nuke Weapons Specialist and met Gen. Lemay (Ret), at VAFB, CA during the ‘72 “Olympic Arena”.
If the timeline seems tight, I graduated at 17 and enlisted a week later, in June of ‘71.
To this day, I believe Gen. Lemay was correct.
I also met Gen. Lemay about 1963 or 1964, I was an E.M.
Oh, so you quoted Him Who Must Not Be Spoken Of. Thought crime No. 23, Citing the Unmentionable, and No. 12, Attempting Conflation of Established Liberal Truth. Bad, very bad! This is all serious Thought Crime — you could have gotten 25 years! So why are you running around loose? Did they make you swallow one of those HF DF pills?
Read “confutation” vice “conflation” in my last (courtesy of Android “Spell**cker”) ....
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