“When John Kennedy was President, he didn’t push a program of dreary mediocrity with endless tax increases on those who dream of better days. He challenged Americans, just as we’re challenging you today, to make America grow and to make America great by pushing for lower personal income tax rates for all the working people of America. And there was a great similarity between his tax cut program and the one that we implemented in 1981” ~ Ronald Reagan, Oct 10, 1984
Abortion in 1960 was not the hot political issue it would later become, but “population control” was a topic of discussion. As a senator, Kennedy was asked, “Do you see any hope at all of slowing up the rate of population increase?” Kennedy’s reply was somewhat dismissive. “Now, on the question of limiting population: As you know the Japanese have been doing it very vigorously, through abortion, which I think would be repugnant to all Americans.”
That’s it for me attempting to post anything about Kennedy.
You must have been very close to him to call him “a “sleazy liberal, the scum of the earth and a disaster for America”.
Now that’s words I would reserve for Obama, but I can’t recall any time on these boards that you have lowered the boom on Obama like you have on Kennedy with your irrational rants. From your questioning back to me about Kennedy being pro-life where I showed you where he appointed pro-life Byron White to the Supreme Court and White DID NOT vote for Roe v. Wade, it’s obvious you have not read one link I provided on Kennedy. No need in continuing this conversation. It’s liking to a wall.
Reagan compared his “hero” (according to your lie) to Karl Marx and Hitler. “ Under the tousled boyish hair cut it is still old Karl Marx”.
While you are promoting the sleazy liberal that so despised America that he sought to replace it’s people and identity (successfully) and claiming that he was a “hero” of Ronald Reagan, and posting a 1981 quote when President Reagan was seeking to use a dead president for politics when speaking to the public as president, just as any politician would after JFK was turned into a martyr by dishonest people like you, let me show you what Reagan really thought.
In a hand written private letter to republican Richard Nixon in 1960, this is what the democrat Ronald Reagan had to say about JFK in regards to his acceptance speech as the democrat nominee. Shortly after the Democratic Party held its Convention in Los Angeles in 1960 where it nominated Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy for President, Ronald Reagan sent the following letter to Vice President Richard Nixon offering his services in the upcoming presidential campaign.
After mocking the “platitudes and generalities” of the other democrat speeches, Reagan gets to the meat of who JFK was.
The hand written letter:
“”I do not include Kennedy’s acceptance speech because beneath the generalities I heard a frightening call to arms. Unfortunately he is a powerful speaker with an appeal to the emotions. He leaves little doubt that his idea of the “challenging new world” is one in which the Federal Govt. will grow bigger & do more and of course spend more. I know there must be some short sighted people in the Republican Party who will advise that the Republicans should try to “out liberal” him. In my opinion this would be fatal.
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I am convinced that America is economically conservative and for that reason I think some one should force the Democrats to publish the “retail price” for this great new wave of “public service” they promise. I don’t pose as an infallible pundit but I have a strong feeling that the twenty million non voters in this country just might be conservatives who have cynically concluded the two parties offer no choice between them where fiscal stability is concerned. No Republican no matter how liberal is going to woo a Democratic vote but a Republican bucking the give away trend might re-create some voters who have been staying at home.
One last thought,— shouldn’t some one tag Mr. Kennedy’s bold new imaginative program with it’s proper age? Under the tousled boyish hair cut it is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Govt. being Big Brother to us all. Hitler called his “State Socialism” and way before him it was “benevolent monarchy.
I apologize for taking so much of your time but I have such a yearning to hear some one come before us and talk specifics instead of generalities. I’m sure the American people do not want the govt. paid services at “any price” and if we collectively can afford “free this & that” they’d like to know it before they buy and not after it is entrenched behind another immovable govt. bureau.
You will be very much in my prayers in the days ahead.
Sincerely,
Ronnie Reagan