Posted on 01/22/2024 11:26:33 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The 2024 Republican Iowa Caucus is now history. Donald Trump scored a decisive victory, capturing 98 of 99 counties and winning 51 percent of the vote. Trump’s opponents — Nikki Haley and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) — find themselves struggling to continue.
Haley jetted off to New Hampshire where she hopes to get enough support from independents to either win or finish a close second. DeSantis decamped to Haley’s home state of South Carolina hoping to appeal to that state’s evangelicals.
But the reality is that Donald Trump has an unshakeable base of support and is all but certain to be the 2024 GOP presidential nominee. As Donald Trump, Jr. bragged on Jan. 6, 2021, “This is Donald Trump’s Republican Party!”
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I did NOT say nor even allude to Ike/America going to war against ANY of the nations' actions, at that time! Words have meanings, both mine AND presidents'!
Trump kept our enemies at bay through his WORDS; some said in private, some in public!
And FYI...Ike sent some "advisors" to Nam, to help the French! He didn't even say ANYTHING AT ALL in '56, about what was going on in Hungary! He ignored it all!
And now, you know what I said and what those words meant...so toddle away and go study up on FACTUAL history!
Will read it.
You mean Dwight “Meatball” Eisenhower?
The presidential candidate “may” choose his/her running mate as long as “THE PARTY APPROVES”!
Otherwise the “PARTY” will foist it’s choice upon the candidate.
And that’s why we need to get rid of all political parties.
Um, I don’t think the author ever heard of “Operation Wetback”
I think that’s a reasoned response.
I still think there could be lurkers who would be misled by a
comment like that, and I want them to read a sound rebuttal.
I think it was a heart attack.
Thank you.
Eisenhower’s remarks defined both a military-industrial complex (which the left liked to talk about) and an academia-government research complex which uses computers to “prove” that we have many crises, the only solutions to which are non-military expansions of government. In the latter instance, Ike predicted what has birthed the climate change scam, the pandemic scam, etc. where some crappy unpublished computer code is used to justify “emergency” dictatorial government actions.
If we are going to drift off into political wish fulfillment, why not wish for a Washington?
Today’s Republican Party desperately needs an Eisenhower
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The same Eisenhower that appointed Earl Warren to The SCOTUS? No thanks.
Amen to that! Party politics needs to go away and die, like yesterday!
I thought as much.
ITA! I remember reading years ago that even Ike later said that his appointment of Earl Warren and William J. Brennan were the 2 biggest mistakes of his presidency.
The brilliance of the Eisenhower speech is he deeply understood that homo sapien elites tend to self-dealing and conflict of interest in all areas of human life.
They create narratives and therefore propaganda which makes them richer and more powerful—every time.
This is never a coincidence.
It is always a conspiracy.
I think it is the connection that is needed. We will or may end up with a Everyman type candidate. The question is evil or not.
When were you at Columbia?
“Eisenhower was the man for his time. Trump is the man for
ours.”
Barry Goldwater was the man for his time, but a TV ad clinched his loss—which turned into a catastrophe for US culture.
I view Douglas Southall Freeman as being equally as interesting in our history, as Eisenhower.
From an online abstract for a book about Freeman, Keeping the Faith: Douglas Southall Freeman, 1886-1953. (Volumes I and II):
[I separated the lengthy abstract paragraph into portions.]
This is a study of the life and career of Douglas Southall Freeman (1886-1953), whose careful scheduling of every minute of every day allowed him to pursue two full-time careers--one as a historian and one as editor of a major daily newspaper. In both occupations his views were shaped by the traditional values he acquired in this youth--religious conviction, reverence for heroes, devotion to duty, self-control, fortitude, industry, thrift.
Growing up in Virginia during the era of the Confederate celebration, Freeman came to admire one hero above all others--Robert E. Lee, a man whose character best exemplified his own moral values. In his Pulitzer prize-winning biography, R. E. Lee, he painted a vivid portrait of a moral hero. He followed up Lee with a study of the high command of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Lee's Lieutenants was his personal favorite among his books and represented his contribution to the training of a new generation of American soldiers. His last major historical work, George Washington never achieved quite the level of acclaim from either the reading public or the critics that Lee and Lee's Lieutenants did, but it constituted another monumental portrait of a moral hero for Americans.
In 1915 Freeman became editor of the Richmond News Leader, a position he held for 34 years. In state politics he was an independent Democrat who consistently, if cautiously, opposed Virginia's political machine.
In national politics he considered himself to be a liberal for the first two decades of this editorship. By his own definition of the term, he was perhaps a life-long liberal, but after 1935 his insistence on fiscal conservatism and limited federal power no longer placed him in the liberal camp.
Despite his growing opposition to the tax and spend policies of the New Deal, he endorsed each of Franklin Roosevelt's bids for re-election, primarily because he trusted FDR's experienced hand in guiding the nation's foreign policy.
He soon lost faith in Roosevelt's successor, Harry Truman, and openly endorsed Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President in 1952.
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