November 22, 1963

[timpage]

Originally Posted by Jackie S

JFK would have a very difficult time fitting into today's Democrat Party.

Not as hard a time as Ronald Reagan would have looking for a spot in your party.

[Yssup Rider]

Originally Posted by timpage

Not as hard a time as Ronald Reagan would have looking for a spot in your party.

No shit!

[TheDaliLama]

JFK was a tax cutter.
Pro life.
Big military spender....


The Dems had him knocked off.

[timpage]

Originally Posted by TheDaliLama

JFK was a tax cutter.
Pro life.
Big military spender....


The Dems had him knocked off.

Oh, those were the good old days where people didn't endlessly argue about abortion. It was kept in dirty back room, along with the coat hangers.

Kennedy would still be a democrat. He'd never be able to suffer the rubes that make up the GOP these days.

[gnadfly]

[Mr MojoRisin]

Originally Posted by gnadfly

Who would Sing" Happy Birthday" now? This disgusting clip may say it all. Times and presidents certainly do change, lol.

http://youtu.be/jY1rqtWQwbs

Jim

[gnadfly]

Perhaps. Maybe the press coverage is just more controlled.

[Yssup Rider]

Originally Posted by gnadfly

Perhaps. Maybe the press coverage is just more controlled.

Maybe that's the most ridiculous statement you've made in weeks!

[Texas Playboy]

Originally Posted by timpage

Kennedy would still be a democrat. He'd never be able to suffer the rubes that make up the GOP these days.

Ideologically, Kennedy would be pretty close to Joe Lieberman. A social liberal, a budget hawk and a defense hawk. And a partisan who would be willing to be bi-partisan when the situation required it. In retrospect, his biggest flaw was that he was late to the party on civil rights.

He would be right in the middle, where there really is no survivable ground in today's political climate. Oddly enough, in retrospect he was probably more conservative than Nixon turned out to be (wage and price controls, EPA, off the gold standard, etc.).

[Yssup Rider]

What's amazing to me is how the Teawipes term ANYBODY to the left of them as lefties or centrists.

Today's Democratic Party stands for the same thing as the one of yesteryear... Only back then most of the Southern conservatives (Dixiecrats) hadn't yet switched parties. So they needed to be elected by disenfranchised minorities and had to campaign accordingly.

Kennedy would be shoulder to shoulder with Obama. In fact, had he lived, we probably would never have had Nixon, Reagan or definitely neither Bush. Probably not Carter either.

[BJerk]

Jimmy Carter is a fine person. It is a shame he wasn't reelected. He has done a lot of good in the world.

[Yssup Rider]

Jimma was way too intellectual for the Beltway bunch and they smacked him down. Reagan knew how to play them and did a masterful job.

[bambino]

JFK was a Rock Star. He had a hot wife and still fucked everything that moved. He was a stud. We now have this dickhead Obama. We have gone down hill. And he cut taxes.

[bambino]

JFK was a rock star, classy wife and he fucked everything that moved. Plus, he cut taxes. A Democrat everyone should love.

[Yssup Rider]

Great POLITICAL commentary, Bambi. We're your parents born yet?