[fortheDeclaration]

No.......Ike was more or less apolitical.Both the Dems and the GOP wanted him to be their presidential candidate,but Ike went GOP.He certainly wasn't a Conservative,but neither was he a RINO. Don't use the term RINO,when what you really are trying to say,is that someone wasn't/isn't a Conservative.

You state that he wasn't a conservative, if not a conservative then what?

He stole the election from a true conservative Taft with a write in campaign in NH.

[nopardons]

Okay,once again for the political naifs on FR.........

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS NOT THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY;NOT NOW,NOT EVER!

And for people to call those not conservative "enough",RINOs,is a misuse of that therm.

Ike,as I stated earlier,was more or less apolitical,but when both the Dems and the GOP wanted him as their presidential candidate,he went with the GOP. Yes, he consider the GOP to be his party and was a REPUBLICAN.

Ike "stole" the election from Taft? What alternate universe do YOU live in? Nobody,NOBODY, was going to beat Ike in those two elections.The tenor of the times were such,that Ike was "it".