[weikel]

The last really true conservative we had as President was Coolidge. Reagan came close of course. Women's suffrage really helped out the socialist a lot. Women are less rational, more "compassionate"( with other people money of course), and more likely to vote security over freedom. Ive heard on FR( though Im not sure if its true) FDR campaigned as an ultra conservative but that didn't last long.

[Torie]

Do you expound on your little theory when trying to get a piece of ...? How does it go over?

[Iconoclast2]

FDR did campaign as a real conservative, and did the most shocking 180 degree turn from a party platform ever recorded. It is the subject of a famous speech called "The Facts of the Case", by Presidential candidate Alfred E. Smith (Janury 25, 1936). If you want a .pdf version of the speech, Freepmail me.

[billva]

Gee, that's what I need to go back to the time of Collidge! Great time to be living, no internet, no air conditioning, no tv. Governing then was different of course and I have no desire to go back.

[hinckley buzzard]

FDR campaigned as an ulta conservative.

I don't know about the "ultra" part but it is true, FDR campaigned against the activist economic innovations of Hoover.

Hint** Anyone who says Hoover was a do-nothing, let'em starve Republican is either lying through his teeth, pig-ignorant, or both.

It should be academic now, but Hoover's record speaks for itself, to anyone who wants to listen. he didn't do every thing right, but FDR did most things catastrophically wrong. Only the War bailed his worthless ass out.