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Was Dwight D. Eisenhower a liberal
Blue Works Better ^ | By MannyGoldstein at Sun

Posted on 02/08/2008 7:15:11 AM PST by meandog

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To: Always Right

I see Obama as the reincarnation of Adali Stevenson—a flaming liberal who was twice toasted by the Republicans.


21 posted on 02/08/2008 7:35:15 AM PST by meandog (Please pray for future President McCain--day minus 327 and counting! Stay home and get Hillary!)
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To: Always Right
Elections are won by keeping the base and winning the middle. McCain has the best chance of doing that.

I think that is backwards. McCain can win by keeping the middle and winning the base. I can never recall an election, where the candidate has so much work to do with the base.

22 posted on 02/08/2008 7:35:45 AM PST by CharacterCounts
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To: meandog
..of course, the culture was vastly different.

You're right. There weren't 20+ million Bush and McCain inspired illegals sucking down taxpayer derived benefits and turning the U.S. into a 3rd world rathole.

23 posted on 02/08/2008 7:35:57 AM PST by TADSLOS (Estoy Juan McCain y apruebo este mensaje!)
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To: meandog
I see Obama as the reincarnation of Adali Stevenson—a flaming liberal who was twice toasted by the Republicans.

He is a flaming liberal, but he pretends to be a centrist. Most voters aren't smart enough to know. Unfortunately, what elections come down to is who the uninformed voters like better.

24 posted on 02/08/2008 7:37:53 AM PST by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: meandog

From what I’ve read, Doug MacArthur would have been a liberal Democrat. A brilliant military career does not necessarily translate into political savvy.

Not sure how George Patton would have governed.


25 posted on 02/08/2008 7:38:56 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: CharacterCounts
I think that is backwards. McCain can win by keeping the middle and winning the base.

LOL, that is probably a more precise way to state it this time.

26 posted on 02/08/2008 7:39:41 AM PST by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: NeoCaveman
He was a Keynsian

If we have learned anything over the past sixty years, I hope it is that Keynsian economics results in perpetual cycles recessions and depressions.

27 posted on 02/08/2008 7:40:19 AM PST by CharacterCounts
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To: meandog

So remember this folks, the next time you hear those “Draft Petraeus” calls. You’ll get another President Grant or President Eisenhower.

With the exception of Washington, generals generally don’t make good Presidents.


28 posted on 02/08/2008 7:40:45 AM PST by jmyrlefuller (NONE OF THE ABOVE IN 2008)
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To: CharacterCounts

Keyensianism is just wrong.

The stagflation of the 1970’s, something that is not supposed to be able to happen in their world, proved it.


29 posted on 02/08/2008 7:42:29 AM PST by NeoCaveman (other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the theater)
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To: TADSLOS
You're right. There weren't 20+ million Bush and McCain inspired illegals sucking down taxpayer derived benefits and turning the U.S. into a 3rd world rathole.

Google "Operation Wetback" you'll see how Ike dealt with his illegal immigration problem.

30 posted on 02/08/2008 7:42:33 AM PST by meandog (Please pray for future President McCain--day minus 327 and counting! Stay home and get Hillary!)
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To: meandog
Was Dwight D. Eisenhower a liberal?

Yes. And a globalist.

Besides all those examples you posted, he was a democrat just before declaring his willingness to run for President as a Republican.

Some of us have not been fooled.

31 posted on 02/08/2008 7:43:34 AM PST by Designer
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To: meandog

Was Dwight D. Eisenhower a liberal?

In today’s thinking, he was not conservative enough.

They’d be “Eisenhower Derangement Syndrome” running rampant in the GOP.


32 posted on 02/08/2008 7:44:21 AM PST by PurpleMan
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To: Greg F
A little unfair to Ike. Supply side theory hadn’t been developed at that point.

How old is Say's law?

33 posted on 02/08/2008 7:46:21 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: meandog

“the actual evidence indicates that we’ve moved far, far to the Right.”

Overall? Are you kidding? Just from my childhood, regulations have gotten that much worse. I was allowed to ride my bike with no “protection”, ride in a truck bed, ride anywhere in a car without a seat belt (including standing up through the moonroof). My child will not be officially allowed to do those things.

It is LIBERALS who LOVE regulation, and thus, with all the increases in regulation, I can only conclude we’ve moved TO THE LEFT.


34 posted on 02/08/2008 7:49:30 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: meandog

“Average folks gets most of their income from their jobs, and thus the tax rate on earned income is most important to them. Rich people get most of their income from the appreciation of assets, and thus the tax rate on capital gains is more important to them.”

Get rid of ALL of it.

It’s unconstitutional, anyway.


35 posted on 02/08/2008 7:51:08 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: meandog

Well, he certainly had no problem stabbing Patton in the back a few times.


36 posted on 02/08/2008 7:51:28 AM PST by Terpfen (Romney's loss in Florida is a catastrophe.)
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To: meandog

“almost three times higher under the Republican Eisenhower compared to our current President, or compared to the Democratic administration of Bill Clinton!”

And who completely reduced that rate? Hhhmmmmmm?


37 posted on 02/08/2008 7:52:36 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: meandog

Ike’s dead. Wetbacks still live on, thanks in large part to Juan McCain.


38 posted on 02/08/2008 7:52:43 AM PST by TADSLOS (Estoy Juan McCain y apruebo este mensaje!)
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To: Always Right
Actually, my working definition of a neoconservative is someone who voted for Kennedy in 1960 and Reagan in 1980.

They're essentially those who finally realized in the late 1960s that liberalism in the United States no longer even resembled the liberalism which was the philosophical basis of the founding of the United States.
39 posted on 02/08/2008 7:52:52 AM PST by The Pack Knight (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: meandog

Do a search on how Ike took care of the illegal immigration problem and then ask if he was a liberal.

He wasn’t. John McCain is. The comparison is insulting and misleading. Move on.


40 posted on 02/08/2008 7:53:19 AM PST by cizinec
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