President Dwight D. Eisenhower was an ignorant liberal?
What an inconvenient fact
You win.
“brings” denotes current. Eisenhower has been dead a long, long time.
It is one of the most common liberal arguments to misapply Eiesenhower’s statement.
The only kind word the moonbat left has for Ike is to parrot that one phrase. They denouce the 1950s as an era of a “phoney” Red Scare and “right wingers” blocking civil rights.
Big Media is more powerful than the munitions companies.
Correct. Great general. We'd consider him comparatively conservative today. But he wasted breath on the Pentagon-industrial culture and glossed over the problem of domestic Communism and let it fester. He didn't make common cause with conservatives here that I've ever read. We paid for it in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s . . .
Eisenhower gets portrayed as a RINO in David Halberstam's account of (Time publisher) Luce's terrible betrayal of conservatism during the 1952 presidential election. This half century old story of betrayal seems to still ring true to today.
Luce felt it was of prime urgency that the Republicans win, in order to save the party, and thus in effect save the Union. ... The real decision, the real hard and difficult choice, had been the decision to destroy an old friend like Bob Taft. ... Taft was an old friend, a Yale man, a Bones man. ... More than anything else, Taft epitomized the kind of rectitude - there was no other word - that Luce demanded and so rarely found in politicians. Taft was intelligent, serious, honorable, conservative, moral, principled. Precisely the kind of man that Time normally would have sponsored. Taft had been denied the nomination in 1948, now by all rights it was his. He could be defeated only if Eisenhower were invented as a candidate. To desert Taft now, to betray him at this late date at the very pinnacle of his career, was a terrible deed for Luce to commit, and yet this was precisely what he did. Luce in 1951 and 1952 went all out to find and sponsor a more liberal Republican who could beat Bob Taft. Perhaps more than anyone else he worked to persuade Ike to run and, with a few other key people, he organized and arranged Ike's early campaign before the General could return from SHAEF. In the truest sense he was Ike's sponsor. In his later years Luce took personal credit for gaining Eisenhower the nomination.