Democratic Heretics . . . Would FDR, Truman, JFK, or LBJ be nominated by their party today?

by ~ The Rebel ~ Posted 2012/06/27 18:25:26

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The never-ending Democratic attempt to resurrect the strategy that destroyed Barry Goldwater in 1964—he’s an extremist, don’t you know—rolls on, with liberals and the media trying to tar the Republican party as an “ideological outlier” in American politics.

There are three legs to this rickety barstool of an argument. One is the pseudo-social science findings of Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann that congressional Republican voting records have lurched sharply to the right in recent years (though it is not obvious why this should be bad news). The second is the populism of the Tea Party, which, to be sure, is a disruptive force in the Republican party much as the anti-Vietnam war movement was a disruptive force in the Democratic party in the late 1960s and 1970s. The wobbliest leg of the triad is the argument, unfortunately abetted by Jeb Bush, that the GOP has become too extreme even for Ronald Reagan.

The use and abuse of Reagan has been going on for a while now, but the claim that Reagan could not be nominated by today’s GOP takes absurdity to a new level.

tncdel 2012/06/28 00:27:34

Both socialists FDR and Johnson would, but not the other two who were closer to be true Liberals.

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wolf sloan 2012/06/27 22:18:01

+1
unlikely

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Chris - The Rowdy One! #187 2012/06/27 18:47:32

JFK would not but I think the others would be without question.

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