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Today’s Republican Party desperately needs an Eisenhower
The Hill ^ | 01/22/2024 | JOHN KENNETH WHITE

Posted on 01/22/2024 11:26:33 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The 2024 Republican Iowa Caucus is now history. Donald Trump scored a decisive victory, capturing 98 of 99 counties and winning 51 percent of the vote. Trump’s opponents — Nikki Haley and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) — find themselves struggling to continue.

Haley jetted off to New Hampshire where she hopes to get enough support from independents to either win or finish a close second. DeSantis decamped to Haley’s home state of South Carolina hoping to appeal to that state’s evangelicals.

But the reality is that Donald Trump has an unshakeable base of support and is all but certain to be the 2024 GOP presidential nominee. As Donald Trump, Jr. bragged on Jan. 6, 2021, “This is Donald Trump’s Republican Party!”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
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To: CodeToad

I think thegagmeline was taking a shot at Trump, not Eisenhower.


61 posted on 01/22/2024 12:59:19 PM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: Socon-Econ
"...He undercut Senator Mc Carthy’s attempt to purge communists from the government..."

Yep. He sure did.

62 posted on 01/22/2024 1:00:19 PM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: rlmorel
Good for you; knowing the actual FACTS! :-)

Far too few do, but FR gives us the chance to educate others and open their collective eyes!

63 posted on 01/22/2024 1:00:46 PM PST by nopardons
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To: rlmorel

That TROLL belongs over on DU; not here!


64 posted on 01/22/2024 1:01:49 PM PST by nopardons
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We do have an Iraq war veteran who currently serves as Governor of Florida. But he suffers from a lack of Biden indictments.


65 posted on 01/22/2024 1:03:04 PM PST by devere
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To: ChicagoConservative27
20 years or so ago they wanted an outsider to come to Washington and "shake things up."

That day finally came and they soiled themselves over mean tweets.

66 posted on 01/22/2024 1:03:44 PM PST by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: nopardons

Maybe Ike saw war up close and personal, and unlike you, desired to stay the hell out of them. There is always some crackpot that wants war out there and we need to stop being the world’s policemen. Even George Washington said to stay out of those conflicts.


67 posted on 01/22/2024 1:04:33 PM PST by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: rlmorel

I was taking a shot at the idiot who made a retarded statement.


68 posted on 01/22/2024 1:05:42 PM PST by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Hill must not remember when Eisenhower helped MacArthur run the Bonus Marchers out of Washington. Perhaps they are simply ignorant. I’m sure if we could bring back Eisenhower they would hate on him, too.

Here’s a short Commie version of that, just to refresh their recollection. Do I see Eisenhower mentioned here? Oh, I do!

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bonus-army-attacked/

It’s packed with slanders, but the Hill should be OK with that.


69 posted on 01/22/2024 1:06:05 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: CodeToad

LOL, thou shall not come between a Freeper and his prey!


70 posted on 01/22/2024 1:07:12 PM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Didn’t Eisenhower have a stroke while he was President?


71 posted on 01/22/2024 1:07:15 PM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: CodeToad
WHAT?

What, EXACTLY, did I write that led you to assume that I wanted Ike to get Americans into yet another war?

Please reread ALL of my comments on THIS thread...OR get someone with better reading comprehension, to read and expalin my words to you.

72 posted on 01/22/2024 1:08:41 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

GREAT COMMENT!


73 posted on 01/22/2024 1:11:16 PM PST by nopardons
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To: rlmorel

Yes, I read it...I agree with it.

I don’t think Ike was a terrible President. I just thought he was a little better than mediocre for that time, but I hold his views on Communists in the US government against him, though it is clear to me he was being led around by his advisors who were high-shelf RINOs for the day, but he had a personal distaste for Senator McCarthy, due to his attacks on General George Catlett Marshall.

He allowed himself to be led around due to his personal animus towards McCarthy.

If we had listened to McCarthy and done what we should have to Communists in this country back then, we wouldn’t be overrun with them the way we are today, IMO.


74 posted on 01/22/2024 1:15:21 PM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fine, let’s grab the next retired 5-star and nominate him for President. In the meantime, Donald Trump will do just fine, thank you very much.


75 posted on 01/22/2024 1:19:55 PM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: nopardons

“There was inflation throughout Ike’s presidency, massive Strikes, Nam was heating up, Ike refused to say or do ANYTHING at all for Hungary, in ‘56, re the Hungarian revolution, Castro was an ever growing menace, the USSR was rattling a LOT of sabre and getting “cozy” with Commie China, South American countries were exploding, and on and one and ON!”

You bitched right there that Ike didn’t intervene. How stupid are you to bitch about it but then try to claim you weren’t for Ike intervening???


76 posted on 01/22/2024 1:21:43 PM PST by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I hope that the writer of this asinine article knows that President Eisenhower carried out “Operation Wetback“ (yes, that was it’s actual name) in 1954, and deported over 2 million illegal Mexicans living in CA, AZ, NM and TX. If that’s the kind of guy he wants, we don’t need a retired five star, we have Donald Trump.


77 posted on 01/22/2024 1:22:08 PM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Vermont Lt
What fantasies do I have?

-PJ

78 posted on 01/22/2024 1:22:13 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: DoughtyOne

Come on DoughtyOne, your a smart guy and you know GAGME is nothing more than a TROLL, don’t feed him.


79 posted on 01/22/2024 1:22:27 PM PST by 5th MEB (1)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They would flip out over Eisenhower. He went much further then Trump is planning on doing. He had illegal aliens rounded up and deported.


80 posted on 01/22/2024 1:24:49 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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