Prager admired JFK for his stand on taxes and economics, and he also admired him for being a “Cold Warrior.” I once heard Prager call himself a “JFK liberal.” I like Dennis a lot and I consider him to be a conservative, but when he said that, it made me want to puke.
BTW, all too many folks on the Right believe that if JFK were alive today, he would be a Republican. Give me a break!
I don’t think JFK would be a Republican if he were alive today, but if he were alive, and advocated the same policies, he wouldn’t be electable as a Democrat, that is for sure.
“BTW, all too many folks on the Right believe that if JFK were alive today, he would be a Republican. Give me a break!”
I think Rush and Hannity promote that idea. Another way to look at it is that people who think this would have been enthusiastic JFK Democrats.
Dennis is a conservative-friendly liberal. But he believes in the defining issue of 1960s liberalism, the civil rights legislation that ultimately has led to multiculturalism, mass third world immigration, minority preferences, the power of the government to compel businesses to hire according to race and gender, and at this point to force Americans to embrace gay marriage.
He can’t have it both ways. Americans used to have the freedom to act in ways that liberals hate. When you pass laws giving politicians the power to force Americans to obey the liberal paradigm you’re a liberal, if not a leftist.