Posted on 04/18/2020 3:52:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
LOL!! Thanks....my husband finally Believed me!
Yes, it was real
So John Kennedy’s right-wing policies (tax cuts, facing down Soviets in Cuba and Berlin) and Robert Kennedy’s attachment to Joe McCarthy might have been residual adolescent rebellion against Ethel’s communism. No wonder Teddy Kennedy turned out to be a worthless drunk fat pig who couldn’t keep his hands off the girls. All this conflict just drove him off a bridge.
Ethel is the widow of RFK.
JFK supported the 1963 military coup in Guatamala, ending Che’s dream there.
Unfortunately, Ethel raised the 11 kids ... which is why they are all useless.
Claims to his being “right wing” are absurd. Tax rates were already confiscatory and counterproductive. Khrushchev ate his lunch in the “showdown” and JFK left the Cuban Freedom Fighters to die on the beach. Reagan rightly argued he was a left-winger at the time.
The whole family has been a cancer on the nation from the beginning.
“A rising tide lifts all boats”. Tax rates under Eisenhower were confiscatory and counterproductive, and he cut them, having run on the promise of cutting taxes. The Cuban “freedom fighters” had a dickens of a time convincing the Cuban people to get behind them, because they were exclusively Batiste die-hards, and were recognized as such on their home stomping grounds, even if they did dupe the CIA into backing them. There was a time that Castro was regarded by some as a “freedom fighter”. Beware of lofty labels with no substance. JFK faced down the Soviets at Checkpoint Charlie and on the eve of Armageddon over Cuba.
Was he “right-wing”? In some aspects, yes. Other aspects, no. He would not recognize the modern-day Democrat Party. Neither would Bobby, who was still defending McCarthy in the 1960s, when he suddenly discovered he was left-wing just in time to coopt the anti-war movement from Gene McCarthy (no relation to Joe). Fortuitously, an Arab terrorist spared the country from another Kennedy presidency.
“The whole family has been a cancer on the nation from the beginning.”
Amen. Quite aside from my narrow point regarding Ethyl and the boys.
“Ethel is the widow of RFK.”
V-8 head slap. All the more wonder. How did McCarthy’s gofer end up marrying and siring eleven kids with a Che-loving commie? That family is seriesly warped. A pox on the lot of them.
Ike was not a Conservative. Given the mess he left and the disastrous wipe-out of the Republicans in 1958 on his watch, he could not have inflicted nearly as much damage had Truman persuaded him to run as a Democrat.
Our government was infested by the 1950s with Communist/leftist agents and sympathizers. As Humberto Fontova pointed out, about the only person who was anti-Castro was the then-Ambassador, Earl Smith. Batista, of course, was no prize, but compared to what followed...
As I said, I have little regard for JFK. He stole the 1960 election and put the whole nation on the wrong course. Nixon actually won, and he would not have kow-towed to the Soviets. He knew Khrushchev was a blustering phony and could handle him. He would have taken out Castro early on (by 1969, it was too late). JFK was so far out of his element that he was as bad as, if not worse than, Emperor Zero. He had most of the media covering for his escapades and incompetence (and they still do today). He was a sex degenerate and addicted to narcotics, both of which gravely jeopardized his ability to serve.
I wonder if her cat is named Manson?
Worked in a hospital with a Neurologist...
The dude was a Commie..Loved Che....
Told a friend of mine...a Doc..about this Doc. He was not believing it..
I told him to check out his front license plate...
It was a Che plate..and had a picture of Che in his conference room.
At this point, what difference does it make. Nixon was no conservative, either. On the contrary, he was an admitted Keynesian, with the likes of John Ehrlichman running his domestic policy and implementing affirmative action in government hiring. He was only concerned with foreign policy, and his accomplishments included losing the war in Vietnam, and detente with Russia and China.
None of the ruling class in the 1960s and ‘50s were paragons of conservative virtue. I am not interested in branding the Kennedeys as such, either. The lot of them were ciphers at best, and I’m identifying them as such. It’s actually reassuring that Teddy was a knee-jerk liberal, in addition to being a murderer, a fat drunken pig, a traitor and a lecher.
Conservatism as we understand it today began politically with the Reagan presidency, and intellectually with Wm. F. Buckley Jr. launching Firing Line and the National Review, or earlier with Milton Friedman.
Actually, we had “Conservatism” (or at least responsible governance) before FDR (and Hoover, to a degree). President Harding, who unlike most leftist historians, I personally rank as being one of our best Presidents (for one reason, he cut taxes and government and spurred on the 1920s economic boom and ended the Wilsonian Recession in a year). Historians hate him because he didn’t raise taxes and expand government, their high holy cause.
Eisenhower, I rank poorly, because he should’ve taken a premier opportunity to roll back over 2 decades of ludicrously expansionist government and weeded out the leftists and Communist sympathizers infesting it. Joe McCarthy turned out to not only be right, but underestimated the level of infiltration of the culture. The Soviet Venona records confirmed he was right.
With respect to Nixon, I believe he would’ve been a far superior President had he served as he should’ve from 1961-1969. He would’ve dealt with Cuba, I think he would’ve pursued a more decisive approach in Southeast Asia and not have been cowed by the Soviets. Add to that, a more modest approach on Civil Rights that would’ve rightly given the Republicans the credit they deserved, which would’ve resulted in drastically different voting patterns by Blacks.
Nixon assuming office by 1969 was already too late for dealing with these issues. JFK/LBJ had left such a horrible mess, nobody coming in by then would’ve been able to properly deal with it. Had it been Humphrey, he, too, would’ve been a failure and likely run out after a single term. Of course, in that case, you would’ve had Reagan elected in 1972, and likely with or near-Republican majorities.
To comment on another point you made, Robert Kennedy, had he not been assassinated, it’s still unlikely he would’ve been the nominee in 1968. Humphrey might’ve thrown him a bone and made him VP, but he’d have been dragged down by Humphrey’s failures as President. RFK might’ve been the nominee in 1972, but he would’ve been obliterated by Reagan. There was a tv debate between the two of them and RFK looked like a deer caught in the headlights debating a superior and better-informed Reagan.
When Reagan was elected, he couldn’t get more than 192 in the House (fewer than we have now after 2018). Why might it have been different in an alternate 1972?
Sad, that a woman who pushed out like 800 White babies could be such a deluded commie. Che would raped your daughters Ethel and used your sons blood instead of milk on his corn flakes.
That’s...cold.
For starters, 1970 would’ve been a landslide year for the GOP against Humphrey, and would’ve put the GOP in the catbird’s seat with redistricting. Add to that, there was the possibility that a number of Conservative Democrats would’ve either voted for a GOP Speaker or switched parties outright. I recall reading Republicans and some Conservative Democrats proposing a coalition Speaker led by Joe D. Waggonner of Louisiana.
As it was, the GOP came close to, or outright moved (however briefly) to majority status in 1972 in some places, and Watergate would set it back more than 20 years or longer.
It’s also true. Che’d have lined the whole family up against the wall after he raped and tortured them for kicks, even as devout supporters.
“...Sad, that a woman who ...”
What’s even sadder is that that family was ever anywhere NEAR the levers of power in this country, and that they deluded enough fools into voting for them over and over again.
Doesn’t reflect well on folks at all...
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