Posted on 09/08/2021 6:31:17 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
When his father, Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) was running for president in the 1952, a supporter purportedly said to him: “Every thinking person in America will be voting for you.”
Stevenson replied, “Madam, I’m afraid that won’t do — I need a majority.”
It was only attributed to him later, but people believed it to be true because it matched his condescending, elitist, liberal attitude.
He seemed like a nice enough guy to my youthful eyes, buy my folks were careful to inform me later that they were voting for "Ike and Dick".
Good gosh, I read it and thought “How on earth could that man still be alive?”
Well, it wasn’t who I thought it was.
I was thinking of his father who ran against Eisenhower.
This is gibberish.
The reputation of the Stevensons (II & III) was that they were cerebral and thoughtful liberals. But, was there ever such a thing?
1982 Illinois Gov. close election...but some funny stuff.
Adlai declared “Thompson was treating him like “some kind of wimp.”
Jim Thompson never called Adlai a wimp...and he made that statement at every campaign stop.
Adlai then had to defend against that. If he didn’t then he really would have been a wimp.
I vaguely remember thay. LOL!
Good ole Walter Cronkite. He blamed John Birchers for his genital herpes.
He left office in 1981. He tried twice to get the office his dad held, Governor, in 1982 and 1986.
Nope. It was a fiction created by the left to portray Socialism as “thoughtful” and Conservatism (true Classic Liberalism) as “mean spirited” or “evil.” As any person who has even the most cursory grasp of history knows, it’s the opposite which is true.
Stevenson III was governor of Illinois and served in the US Senate.
Adlai the First became a favorite of Democrats when, as assistant postmaster general during the first Cleveland Administration, he fired many Republican postal workers, replacing them with Southern Democrats. As VP candidate in the 1892 election, Adlai the First campaigned in the South reinforcing his opposition to a federal elections bill the Democrats in the Senate had defeated in 1890. The elections bill (aka the Henry Cabot Lodge bill) would have protected the voting rights of southern black Republicans in areas that had returned to white one-party rule. Stevenson’s ability to get the votes in the South was aided by the fact that he had ten cousins who had high level positions in various southern states.
Adlai the First was a native of Kentucky (born in Christian County, KY, which is on the Tennessee state line, in 1835). That may have made him the obvious person to campaign in the South.
Ran for Governor twice, never elected. His dad was Governor.
You are correct. I stand corrected. He lost twice to James R Thompson.
The old Democrats just boiled the frog slowly enough so most folks didn’t notice...
He shared that distinction with his great-grandfather, Adlai the 1st, who lost for Governor in 1908 (after he had been Vice-President).
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