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Ted Cruz Channels John F. Kennedy
Reason.com ^ | June 8, 2015 | Ira Stoll

Posted on 06/10/2015 11:48:26 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

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1 posted on 06/10/2015 11:48:26 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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2 posted on 06/10/2015 11:48:59 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

I hope not. I’d rather him channel Reagan and Coolidge.


3 posted on 06/10/2015 11:49:51 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: SoConPubbie
Channels John F. Kennedy

Multiple Choice Exam:

a) Pay any price, defeat any foe...

b) Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

c) Now, my wife is never going to find out about this, right?


4 posted on 06/10/2015 11:57:43 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SoConPubbie

Global corporate fascism is ObamaTrade.

ObamaTrade is Keynesian.

Cruz supports ObamaTrade.

Thus, Cruz is a Keynesian.


5 posted on 06/10/2015 11:59:44 AM PDT by WIBamian (I will not be abused by liars.)
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To: SoConPubbie
“As JFK said, ‘Some men see things as they ahh and ask why. I see things that never wahh and ask, why not?’”

RFK said that, not JFK.

6 posted on 06/10/2015 12:03:40 PM PDT by Will88
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I don’t like this game that republicans play with JFK, but I guess it is useful, Rush does it, and the democrats do it with Lincoln.

The election of JFK was the end of America, Vietnam, the 60s, LBJ, government unions, and the fatal pill of immigration.

“However, if there is one man who can take the most credit for the 1965 act, it is John F. Kennedy.

Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Boston’s WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s.

In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedy’s blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960.

In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin.

After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFK’s legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, “I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies.”

Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.”


7 posted on 06/10/2015 12:03:53 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: WIBamian

Oh lookie here, a n00b who hates Cruz.

Oh woe is us.


8 posted on 06/10/2015 12:04:12 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Resolute Conservative

He is doing what Reagan did. He is appealing to Reagan Democrats by identifying with the tax cuts made by JFK, a policy also supported by Reagan and many Democrats of that time.


9 posted on 06/10/2015 12:05:53 PM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: Will88
RFK

Have a very definite memory of who said that. Ted or someone for him did some bad research. Was not particularly inspired by RFK, either.

10 posted on 06/10/2015 12:07:26 PM PDT by Will88
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To: WIBamian

You were never going to vote for Cruz anyway and obviously know less than nothing about him. Anyone who does know what Cruz supports knows you are a Lame troll.


11 posted on 06/10/2015 12:08:30 PM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: WIBamian

Fools say stupid things.

What you said is stupid.

Therefore, you are a fool.

There, solved it.


12 posted on 06/10/2015 12:10:39 PM PDT by TNMOUTH
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To: cripplecreek

Your support for ObamaTrade is sickening.


13 posted on 06/10/2015 12:10:52 PM PDT by WIBamian (I will not be abused by liars.)
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To: conservativejoy

When asked about unions in Michigan he wisely said that union members are individuals and that they understand how the taxation and regulation are harming them along with everyone else.

Very Reaganesque.


14 posted on 06/10/2015 12:12:10 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: conservativejoy

Cruz supports ObamaTrade.

ObamaTrade is an untreatable disease that will kill the hard-working middle-class of America.

Thus, I do not support Cruz anymore.


15 posted on 06/10/2015 12:13:14 PM PDT by WIBamian (I will not be abused by liars.)
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To: WIBamian

Not nearly as sickening as that Hillary running down your chin.


16 posted on 06/10/2015 12:13:31 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: cripplecreek

Hillary has dementia due to the bumps on her head from falling down so much.

Naaa, I’m a concussion-free voter.


17 posted on 06/10/2015 12:18:10 PM PDT by WIBamian (I will not be abused by liars.)
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To: WIBamian

You come across as a seriously messed up dude. You need professional help. At the very least you need to learn how to play better with others.


18 posted on 06/10/2015 12:32:19 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: be-baw

My mother won’t allow the neighborhood bully, ObamaTrade, to play with me in my sandbox.

Something about being kicked in the face with sand that really stings the eyes, you know?


19 posted on 06/10/2015 12:36:07 PM PDT by WIBamian (I will not be abused by liars.)
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To: be-baw

So, Kennedy was the great tax cutter. Problem was his tax cuts did not go in until 1964.

Anyone see an issue with that? His economic principals were more traditional and inheriting a recession from Eisenhower (who by the way screwed Nixon because he chose not to do anything fiscally to help Nixon) forced Kennedy to make some hard choices.

When you look at what Kennedy did to help pull the country out of its doldrums, it was US Steel that forced Kennedy’s hand. They were going to raise prices and send the stock market into a crash. In addition, with unemployment hovering at 7%, Kennedy’s only option was to give in to US Steel.

So along with that came tax cuts to businesses and individuals. One thing about the move by Kennedy. It went against his fiscal advisors advice to adopt Keynesian economic policies and save the country. That thinking by Kennedy is what made him a Conservative.


20 posted on 06/10/2015 12:43:49 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liawatha, because we need to beat a real commie, not a criminal posing as one.)
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