No. That's absurd. Almost as absurd as it would be to suggest that Obama is more conservative than McCain or Bush.
The last time you can make the case that the dem was more conservative was in 1904, Teddy R. and Alton Parker (D), It's been said that "the nominations should have been reversed" (paraphrase). I think it probably would have been a push as to which was more conservative.
Now I have absolutely no love for Dick Nixon. Conservative? No. RINO? Yes. Bad President? i say yes. Commie lover? No. Neither was Kennedy but he was the one in the same party as the commie lovers. And he was the one who had mob ties and stole the election. Nixon being lousy does not make Kennedy good.
Nixon was a big government Republican a step above outright liberals like Nelson Rockefeller and several steps below a good conservative. Kennedy was a rank socialist. A socialist that supported a modest tax cut and didn't love commies but still a socialist. He was every bit the conservative and "moderate Republican" (to quote Bucaneer81) that Joe Lieberman is today. That is to say a broken clock socialist. He's still an icon to liberals to this day.
You've heard of the great society Nick? Kennedy would have passed that crap if he hadn't been killed. If were still alive today he'd be shilling for Obama and praising Obamacare as "my brother's legacy".
Kennedy is absurdly popular due to being deified by the media. So it's become quite the prevalent meme that "Kennedy was conservative", "Kennedy would be a Republican now, unlike everybody else in his damn family expect for in-law socialist "Republican" Arnold Swatzencantspellhisnamegger. According to freeper Billyboy's research this meme popped up around the time of the Bush tax cut when everyone was pointing out that the liberal rat Kennedy lowered the income tax. It morphed into the current meme which is treated as gospel by a shocking number of freepers. It's fun to mess with the rats by claiming their icon as one of us but it's just not factually supported.
If FR and the net existed in 1960 any freeper for Kennedy would have been ridiculed and probably banned.
The 60's were a disaster for the country. It could not have been worse if Nixon had won not had the election stolen from him.
It's pretty much agreed that Kennedy stole Illinois from Nixon thanks to the Daley machine in Chicago. But Kennedy got a total of 303 electoral votes, whereas only 268 were needed to win an outright majority of them. Illinois had 26(?) electoral votes, so even if Kennedy hadn't cheated there and lost Illinois, he still had enough to win the national election.
That means that in order to argue that the fraud was decisive and the election was stolen, you would have to demonstrate a decisive amount of chicanery in some other state or states outside of Illinois. What do you know about other states?