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The sad thing is, had LBJ actually been assassinated, a bunch of useful idiots on "our side" WOULD be trying to co-opt his failed "legacy" and touting how "conservative" LBJ was and how he "would be a Republican today". They'd do the same thing they're doing with JFK, and cherry pick one or two comments he made during his presidency to "prove" what an outstanding Tea Party-like figure he was.

For example, here's an actual LBJ quote:

"I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's. The conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being. -- Lyndon Baines Johnson

See?! Whatta guy!! TODAY'S Democrats have CHANGED. They are now godless atheists and wouldn't allow a great patriotic pro-life Christian like LBJ in their party today!! Look how they booed God at their convention, there's no way LBJ would have been allowed there! Why, I bet ol' Lyndon was MORE CONSERVATIVE than Ronald Reagan!! < / sarcasm>

Heck, even one comment earlier in this thread was extolling the virtues how "honorable and patriotic" ROBERT Kennedy was. Yes, the guy ran to the LEFT of LBJ in 1968 on a Cindy Sheehan type platform.

I know, really. How ‘bout folks extol the virtues of REAL Conservative Presidents, like Warren Harding ? Y’know, the guy who resolved a recession (Wilson’s) in record time by cutting taxes and government.

I’m sure we’ve got some FDR worshippers here, too, the guy who undid everything Harding and Andrew Mellon (greatest Treasury Secretary ever who should’ve been President instead of ex-Wilson Democrat Hoover) did and helped put the country on the road to Socialist-Marxist dependence and massive big gubmint/Derp State and Soviet undermining of our institutions.