Posted on 10/10/2011 7:20:44 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
“…. “Andrew Jackson: Tea Party President” (The American Spectator October 2011) Robert W. Merry …….compelled to respond. He had to be straightened out about what the TEA party movement…
Mr. Merry’s piece…… “Ivory Tower elitist” all over it as it works overtime to spray perfume on a man who was certainly complicit in Aaron Burr’s treasonous plot to make the Louisiana territories his private kingdom. Jackson set the stage for never ending poor relations with South and Central America as well.
Merry starts with a straw man premise about TEA party patriots …….
He thinks we are looking for “guidance” from a Republican president of the distant past but conveniently bypasses Ronald Reagan, the quintessential TEA patriot. Instead Merry offers us Andrew Jackson ………
Later the self-conscious Merry allows Jackson was a Democrat but not like modern day Democrats …... He repeats today’s liberal Democrat line about Thomas Jefferson being the founding father of the Democrat Party.
He ignores the inconvenient truth that, more than anyone else, it was Aaron Burr the murderer of Alexander Hamilton and nearly convicted treason conspirator who started the whole scheme. Burr was one of the founders of infamous Tammany Hall from whence the Democrat Party was hatched.
Jackson’s connection to Burr’s conspiracy In 1806 at Burr’s request Jackson put together a fully outfitted army in preparation for an assault on New Orleans to take all of the newly purchased Louisiana territories so Burr could become King……
“…..more examples of Jackson’s dubious character but his decision to help the British steal the Falkland Islands from Argentina stands as a classic. Jackson completely cast aside the Monroe Doctrine.
He idly sat by watching …. European power violated the Doctrine which was the word of America…. He was the original Ugly American......
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
No kidding. Andrew Jackson was a vicious scumbag. Back then there were still some pretty decent politicians. I was suprised to see this in the American Specator and suspect it’ll get a lot of mail.
the disgusting “Trail of Tears”
The Supreme Court ruled his expulsion of the Indians was unconstitutional. He defied the S.Court and proceeded anyway.
Not a Tea Party kind of thing to do.
One example of Jackson’s political manipulations are his actions in solving the Toledo strip dispute between Ohio and the Michigan territory.
He gave the more valuable (at the time) Toledo strip to Ohio in return for the democrats delivering the vote in the next election. The Michigan territory got the seemingly useless western upper peninsula. Michigan ended up getting the better deal despite the fact that it didn’t seem so at the time.
The democrats did deliver Ohio but the Whigs won overall.
Hamilton was killed in a duel. Had he won, would the coach have dubbed him the murderer of Burr?
...his decision to help the British steal the Falkland Islands from Argentina stands as a classic. Jackson completely cast aside the Monroe Doctrine.
He leaves out the fact that the American warship was sent to the Falklands because the Argentines had seized three American vessels.
Indeed, he was a duelist and owned more than 100 slaves about the time he was elected president.
I have always thought Jackson was a great man. A man who got things done. Not always right but always in the fight and I think he was actually trying to do what was right.
Probably also misunderstood.
He was also a dangerous man.
Dangerous indeed!
He threatened war against a state of the Union and murder of its’ Senator.
A “man of the people” given to greater loyalty to his own perception of fairness rather than to law..... a key indicator of mental illness.
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