[padre35]

Ike was surprisingly Conservative.

[WilliamReading]

Ike was no way a conservative, very middle of the road. Ike gave us the liberal Warren Court. I think the top tax rate during the Eisenhower administration was 80 percent.

The conservative Republican during that era was Robert Taft, but he was never able to get the Republican nomination.

[Clemenza]

Ike was to the right of his opponent in the convention, Robert Taft, but was running against a genteel Illinois socialist whose father had run on the ticket of a certain fire breathing populist named William Jennings Bryant.

Withdrawing from the messianic policy of Roosevelt and Truman, balancing the federal budget (cutting spending in the process), and sending the illegals back south were but three achievements we can thank Ike for.