Harry Truman was probably more conservative than Ike.
On the scheme of things, McCain is much more of a small government conservative than either Bush. McCain has serious issues on global warming and immigration, but McCain will be vastly better than either Democrat on 80% of the issues. I am disappointed that McCain is the nominee, but we could have done worse.
A little unfair to Ike. Supply side theory hadn’t been developed at that point. There was a huge debt from World War II and an ongoing war in Korea. Not a great time to lower taxes if you don’t understand supply side theory . . . which they didn’t in those days. That said, the writer is right in that we conservatives know a lot more than we did then and it doesn’t take a genius (which Ike just might have been actually) to see that a 90% tax rate is too darn high.
He was a Keynsian (growth is bad) and could have just as easily ran as a Democrat.
Ike appointed Earl Warren because he thought he was a conservative. He was very disappointed with Warren’s turn to the left. He integrated the schools because he did not want to defy the Supreme Court. He warned about the military industrial complex, yes... But that sounds like Ron Paul, not John McCain.
“During Ike’s administration, the highest tax bracket was 92% in 1953, and 91% thereafter”
That’s misleading because there were a whole lot more deductions even for the rich in those days. No one paid 92% of their income in taxes. The tax burden is much higher today than it was then, particularly when you consider the state and local taxes. Today, the government eats a much bigger share of our incomes, and it still runs a huge deficit. Eisenhower would be aghast.
I hope you’re not telling us that John McCain is going to resurrect the old welfare system.
Ohhh, I dunno. How about every time Monica's ex-boyfriend's wife opens her mouth?
LOL!!!
My grandfather called Ike a great man to serve under but a pretty mediocre president.
That was then this is now.
I can prove anything I want using numbers and incomplete quotes.
There's a point in some articles where the author is so wrong that you quit reading. This is it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
“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.
Well, he certainly had no problem stabbing Patton in the back a few times.
“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?
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.