[Fiji Hill]

Hickenlooper, Schickelgruber... its all the same...

Not quite. John Hickenlooper's cousin Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R-Iowa) was elected to the US Senate in 1944 and soon joined a coalition of hard-core conservative Republicans who resisted New Dealism and internationalist schemes and strongly opposed Communism during the 1940's and 1950's. The group included Bill Knowland (R-Calif.), Styles Bridges (R-NH), Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wisc.), George Malone (R-Nev.), Kenneth Wherry (R-Neb.), William E. Jenner (R-Ind.), Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) and two Ohioans, Robert A. Taft and John Bricker. Maverick Democrat Pat McCarran (D-Nev.) may also be said to be part of this group.

Hickenlooper left the Senate in 1969, long after the others in this group had departed--although Goldwater returned to the body that year.

[April Lexington]

Thanks for the clarification. I didn’t know they were related. Too bad John H. didn’t spend more time with his cousin...

[Regulator]

That's great history. Had forgotten about Knowland, there was a time when California was the bastion of American Right Wing conservatism as eventually exemplified by Reagan.

The Real Republicans I guess we could call them. Obviously, Cuz Hickenlooper in Denver is a baby boomer parroting all the boomer shibboleths, in contravention to the parent's generation.

Sort of defines modern Democrats: immature Boomer brats.