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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsABC panel laughs at Bill Kristol for claiming JFK would be ‘more comfortable’ as a Republican today
Panelists on ABCs This Week couldnt help but laugh on Sunday as conservative columnist Bill Kristol claimed that former President John F. Kennedy would be more comfortable perhaps in the Republican Party of today.
During a segment on the 50th anniversary of Kennedys assassination, ABC News host George Stephanopolous gave Kristol a chance to weigh in on the debate over whether the the former president was a conservative or a liberal.
He was certainly an anti-communist and a hawk and believed in a strong defense, Kristol opined. And the speech he was going to give in Dallas on Nov. 22, he was calling for tax cuts across the board to give people incentives to get the economy moving again.
So in those two respects, I think he would have been a little more comfortable perhaps in the Republican Part of today than the Democratic Party.
Those comments elicited laughter and moans from Kristols fellow panelists.
Hes still a Democratic icon, Stephanopolous noted.
Its interesting, this is a moment when you dont know where the myth begins and reality begins, former George W. Bush aide Matthew Dowd remarked. Myth and reality got so mixed up in so many peoples minds that theyre still sorting out what was myth and what was reality.
Watch the video from ABCs This Week, broadcast Nov. 24, 2013.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/24/abc-panel-laughs-at-bill-kristol-for-claiming-jfk-would-be-more-comfortable-as-a-republican-today/
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Pretty sure JFK would be horrified. What is it with the GOP propagating this crap?
Wounded Bear
(58,765 posts)but he'd be no Repub, for sure.
In typical conserve fashion, they think everything great in history must have been conservative....must have.
It's the same twisted logic thye use when they claim Hitler was a socialist and NAZI-ism was a left wing ideology.
They're nuckin' futz.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)spanone
(135,919 posts)they are delusional at best.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)with big industry.
The tax cuts he wanted were targeted for the middle class and entrepreneurs.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)regard, contemporary vs. historic.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)In fact why do so many republican politicians have a reptilian look about them?
Also--
1- JFK was NOT by any stretch of the imagination, a hawk.
He did NOT want to stay in Vietnam, much less increase our minimal presence there.
2- He did NOT want to invade OR attack Cuba.
3-He and Krushchev both knew the other had insane, war loving military and spy agencies to deal with. Kennedy wanted detent with Soviet Union and Krushchev was on the same page.
4- He totally distorts the speech that Kennedy was to give in Dallas. And he either is ignorant of or lies about JFK's opinions on economic policy.
5- He also looks totally uncomfortable saying what he is saying either because he knows what he is saying is silly or because he is just lying.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)actually being Republicans while they were alive. Oddly enough Duke isn't even dead yet.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)lol Kristol the idiot who gave us Sarah Palin.
Blue Owl
(50,547 posts)n/t
BootinUp
(47,209 posts)they were primarily allied with liberals. They seem to shrewdly ally with whomever they can get to start wars I believe. But seriously they were quite different before 1970.
lumpy
(13,704 posts)political buddies.
applegrove
(118,880 posts)who were young and traumatized by Kennedy's death that they should feel comfortable mourning him and remaining part of the GOP base. He is so creepy.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Before you're never accepted on television ever again?