Chris Wallace pans John Bolton's White House tell-all: 'It is a bore'

Fox News ^ | June 26 2020 | Joshua Nelson

[Impy]

Check this out “FDR had his own Bolton” One of his major speechwriters turned on him and became a conservative Republican and wrote an indictment of the new deal.

https://www.newsmax.com/john-gizzi/john-bolton-fdr-raymond-moley-conservative/2020/06/21/id/973362/

I never heard of this guy

[dfwgator]

Even Henry Wallace in his latter years because a staunch Anti-Communist.

[BillyBoy]

Hell, FDR has his own "Ron Reagan Jr", as his youngest son, John Roosevelt. He officially announced he was switching to the GOP in 1947 and became increasingly conservative over the year. He vocally campaigned for Eisenhower in '52 and '56 over the rest of the family's wishes, and became a hardcore Nixon defender, causing considerable embarrassment to his mommy Eleanor.

I wonder what the Teddy Roosevelt wing of the family felt about that. I believe they are still Republicans, though his namesake great grandson "Teddy Roosevelt IV" is pretty much a useless RINO douche.

[BillyBoy]

"In the last week, several historians have concluded, before Bolton, the last former top White House official to come out with a critical book on the President he served while he was still in the White House was Moley."

HUH?

These "historians" apparently have amnesia about former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's "The Price of Loyalty", an book of Neill's 'memoirs' which was EXTREMELY critical of Bush and released in 2004 when Bush still in the White House (and indeed, hadn't even started his second term yet!)

The liberal MSM made it front page news to bash Bush at the time (O'Neill spent 90% of the book bashing Bush over Iraq, good thing the guy in charge of the domestic U.S. Treasury Dept. was such an "expert insider" on foreign policy discussions), and now apparently has forgotten the book exists so they can create this "no high ranking cabinet official has ever turned against a President they served so quickly" narrative. Maybe we should send them some copies of the book to "remind" them.

But, to be fair, our side gets amnesia about events from a decade earlier too. Rudy Giuliani claiming "no Presidential impeachment has ever been partisan". Yeah, oddles of Democrats happily voted to impeach Slick Willie, right?

[BillyBoy]

Andddddd I just googled it to confirm ANOTHER example.

Former Bush spokesman Scott McClellan's anti-Bush book "What Happened?" was released in June 2008, so Bush was ALSO still the sitting President in the White House at the time, and Obama's election as President was still months away.

Gosh, that seems a LOT more recent than the 1939 date that the "Historians" agree was the most recent time a "top Presidential official" published a book critical of the President they served while he was still in office.

I bet I could find numerous other examples if I researched the topic a bit more and looked at other administrations.

Someone should confront these biased "historians" because they seem to be "missing" quite a few examples. Perhaps because those books don't fit their narrative?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Raymond Moley. I have his autograph. :-P

[campaignPete R-CT]

Don Regan. APR ‘88

“For the Record”

[Impy]

LOL, Gizzi sometimes posts wrong information.

I’d like to know if it happened to a RAT President more recently than Morley.

“Obama sucks” by Reggie Love?

[Impy]

Interesting, I never knew about John Roosevelt.

The ordinals for the Teddys are messed up cause President Teddy never used Jr. even though HIS father was the first one therefore his son “Teddy Jr.” was actually the Third. I’m sorry but that should be a crime.

I noticed before that Archibald Roosevelt (son of TR) seemed to be more conservative than his father.

[BillyBoy]

Good question. If a former RAT administration official had an axe to grind with their boss, I'm guessing the RAT bosses at the DNC would take them to the woodshed and threaten them not to air their dirty laundry in public, OR the mainsteam media would do their best to bury the story and make sure the public doesn't hear about it, like they did when "America's first black governor", Douglas Wilder, announced he was NOT supporting Obama for re-election.

The one very clear example I can think of is Dick Morris publishing very vocal anti-Clinton books, but those books came out well after Clinton left office. I think he wrote them as a sort of "counter-point" rebuttal to Slick Willie and Hilderbeast's own bios.

If LBJ HADN'T died, I could imagine a slew of "disgruntled high ranking Johnson administration" officials would release "tell all" books about him.

[BillyBoy]

I found “Ted Roosevelt V’s” Twitter page today. He’s an even bigger douche than his daddy. I think he likes calling himself a “proud TR Republican” for the SOLE purpose of bashing ALL other Republicans, especially Trump. Like Colon Bowel, I can’t find a SINGLE remark from the guy that actually SUPPORTS any Republican policy.

At least this guy has the excuse of being five generations removed from his famous namesake. Will Miller’s daughter used to host some “Progressive” talk show on Airhead America, where she’d routinely lie about her daddy “was a moderate and would be appalled by how crazy right the Republicans are today” (sorry dear, your dad was very conservative and that’s of the reasons Barry Goldwater got bashed as “too extreme” for picking him as a running mate!)

In any case, I hate to break it to “Ted Roosevelt V” but your great-great-granddaddy, as “Progressive” as he was, never would have cheered on men dressed as woman going the bathroom with little girls, or routinely “retweeted” crap from the likes of Joe Biden.

https://twitter.com/rooseveltted

[BillyBoy]

Another intersting trivia fact: I think you guys rightfully give Teddy Roosevelt hell for his vanity campaign in 1912 that split the GOP vote and inflicted Woody Wilson on America, but lefties trying to claim Teddy as one of their own forget that Wilson ran to his LEFT and Teddy denounced Wilson's plans to nationalize the railroad industry as "rank socialism".

After he saw what harm Wilson did to America, Teddy returned to the GOP fold in 1916, endorsed AND campaigned vigoriously for Charles Evans Hughes, saying Wilson was a disaster and it was imperative to defeat him. Teddy Roosevelt died a staunch Republican and was no fan of his distant cousin Franklin.

For that reason alone, I think Teddy would challenge his little snot-nosed great-great-grandson to a boxing match, and beat the snot out of him for spewing AOC's talking points and endorsing the likes of Joe Biden.

[Impy]

Miller may have been conservative but he seems to have been a rather uninspired choice.

Goldwater is said to have said of Miller “He drives Johnson nuts”. I read someone that Johnson or a staffer claimed that in fact Johnson didn’t or barely knew who Miller was, I find that believable as I don’t know of any great heroics by Miller that would have drawn ire. I also read that his attitude on the campaign trail was one of joking around with reporter scum whilst being resigned to inglorious defeat.

Wiki references some book that listed other potential candidates, like Claire Booth Luce and Former CT Governor and movie actor John Davis Lodge (brother of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr).

George Wallace was also said to be interested but was politely told to f off.

[Impy]

Or be in favor of taking down his statue, pathetic. He’s a “Lincoln Project” traitor like that POS Kellyanne Conway sleeps with. Honestly, Carville’s marriage makes more sense to me than that.

Anyway back to TR, I’ll note that due to his popularity he is claimed by the left (kinda like what some on the right do with JFK). Ask a libtard and they’ll say TR was the last “good” Republican President.

TR of course died before his cousin was more than an Assistant Sec of the Navy but they appeared to enjoy warm relations (Teddy loved his niece Eleanor) and even gave his blessing for FDR to run for state Senate as a rat (even if he wished he weren’t one), it sounded to me like the district was GOP leaning and an unkind word from TR could have nipped Franklin’s career right in the ass (Eleanor had no compunction about trying to wreck her cousin TR “Jr.” when he ran for Governor of NY, she went out of her way to troll his campaign).

For his part Frank bent over backwards invoking TR whenever he could, very like every weaselous Kennedy. If TR had not been President we would likely have never heard of Franklin.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Bill Miller, in addition to being a Congressman, also served simultaneously as RNC Chairman from 1961 until he stepped down to run as VP in the Summer of 1964. That was his claim to a prominent position within the party.

Virtually everyone knew it was going to be a kamikaze run and unwinnable, so I can see why many others chose not to run with Goldwater. From what I was able to glean from correspondence with Gov. Bill Scranton (who, of course, wanted to stop Goldwater and be the nominee himself - and he wouldn’t have had to give up the Governorship), seemed to be about not having an epic blowout in Congressional races. That, of course, happened.

All those gargantuan majorities won by the Senate Dems in 1958 mostly got a pass and they didn’t start to get taken down until 1970 or later. The similar massive Dem House wins enabled them to go nuts on their radical leftist social programs without opposition. In this instance, Scranton and their side DID have a point. But endorsing LBJ, as many RINOs did, made it a self-fulfilling prophecy. Had they stuck with Goldwater, the losses in Congress might’ve been fewer and enough to have perhaps curtailed the madness of the 1965-66 Congress.

I can’t imagine how George Wallace would’ve ever been able to get on the ticket as VP even if he wanted to. He would’ve had to have switched parties first, and given that he was in control of the AL Democrat machine, that would’ve proven nearly impossible. Goldwater didn’t need him, anyway, as he carried AL and the GOP won a majority of the House delegation there, the first time the GOP had won a House seat in the state since the 1890s (they went from 0-8 to 5R-3D in one shot, offsetting what would’ve been even greater House losses. They also won a seat in Mississippi for the first time since Reconstruction and Georgia, too, with Bo Callaway).

The GOP, of course, didn’t want to embrace Wallace’s brand of segregationist politics. That would’ve killed the party outside the South. Dems could get away with that crap, but not the GOP. The overwhelming majority of the party was supportive of Civil Rights. Sadly, the long-term damage with Goldwater is that because he opposed the 1964 CRA as an overreach of federal power (and not due to racism, as many Blacks were told to believe, as he had previously supported Civil Rights laws), that it drove down national Black support from 25-30% to less than 10% (and in some areas where the GOP could get even higher % than 30, such as the South).

But you pretty much know all that.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Teddy & Frank (& Eleanor) may have had warm relations, but it didn’t extend to Teddy’s children and the cousins. They were bitter political enemies. Teddy’s progeny was more right-leaning. Unfortunately, as with the ruling class, after a few generations, TR’s line became like the Hapsburg imbecile Spanish King Charles II (maybe not physically, but intellectually - like the Bushes).

Mark Roosevelt and his second cousin, Susan Roosevelt Weld (ex-wife of Slick Willie Weld) are both ultraleft nutters (Mark ran against Weld in ‘94, losing in a massive landslide. The entire time I was up in MA during the last week or so of the election cycle, the only place I ever saw a Mark Roosevelt for Governor sign was in the North End of Boston). Mark’s father was Kermit, Jr., helped depose Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran in 1953. Mark himself is now ensconced in the corrupt higher ed today, previously running the now-notorious Antioch College from 2011-15 and now at St. John’s College–Santa Fe since 2016. Susan is also an “educator” and was notorious for trying to bring down Sen. Jesse Helms in 1996 (but he had the last laugh).

[Gene Eric]

LOL — useful indifference.