Before Trump, there was Wendell Willkie

The Greenfield Recorder ^ | July 10, 2016 | Rich Heldenfels, The Akron Beacon Journal

[A CA Guy]

Franklin did Santa Claus Government and Hillary wants to give college and other things for free as well.

Until we are a third world broke joke the Democrats will keep this up.

[TADSLOS]

Comparisons of Willkie to Trump are not perfect.

Nor accurate or relevant.

[colorado tanker]

Willkie basically was put on the ticket to keep the isolationists off. Even then, more than a year before Pearl Harbor, it was becoming obvious that the US one way or another was going to become involved in what was shaping up as a world war.

[Cicero]

More attempts to spread irrelevant slime on Trump.

[Gaffer]

Let them keep thinking Wenell Wilkie and we’ll ram Trump so far up their butts they’ll holler for mercy. Screw them.

[Thud]

I was wondering when this analogy would come up.

[chajin]

If BHO were running for a third term, this would be a better analogy; in that case, Trump would be the candidate who would have come closest to toppling Obama, but would fail. Since Trump is running, not against the reincarnation of FDR, but the reincarnation of Eleanor, he should have a much better chance of success.

[Peter ODonnell]

It might also be noted that comparisons of HRC to FDR are rather faint.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Well, their both hid medical conditions.

[Buttons12]

I believe he was the last candidate for president who had the endorsement of Ayn Rand.
Feel free to correct me.

[Dr. Sivana]

It might also be noted that comparisons of HRC to FDR are rather faint.

Both of them had personal conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt.

[nascarnation]

LMAO.
Nicely done!

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I’m waiting for the article comparing Hillary Clinton to Ma Barker.

[Ohioan]

Wilkie was the out-spoken “One Worlder,” so the comparison is anything but apt.

[Little Bill]

Wilkie was the original “Rat Light”. His problem was as head of the “Southern Company” Utility, FDR created the TVA and screwed SC out of territory.

[SubMareener]

Everyone who voted against Wendell Willkie will vote for Hillary! We know this because they are mostly dead, and the dead always vote Democrat!

[Flick Lives]

challenging Franklin D. Roosevelt’s bid for a third term....

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Rats crave power above all else. FDR. Term limited by the Grime Reaper. If he had been your enough, he would have finished his 4th term, a 5th, 6th... Our very own Augustus.

[Verginius Rufus]

Willkie’s running mate, Charles McNary, also died before the term they were running for was up...so if they had won, the country would have had an Acting President for the last few months (or maybe he would have been regarded as President—Speaker of the House? or Secretary of State? I don’t remember what the line of succession was in 1944).

[mulligan]

Might have been a wiser choice.