My Favorite Republican, whose yours?

[annabanana]

This World in Arms
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft
from those who hunger and are not fed, those who
are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not
spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its
laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its
children... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense.
Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging
from a cross of iron.

[Itchinjim]

1. Other than Abe Lincoln?

Teddy Roosevelt
A true Progressive.

[Gildor Inglorion]

4. Yes, he was...

I agree 100%. Where are the Republicans now who will go after "the malefactors of great wealth"? The neocons and their puppet, Bush*t, are engaging in history's most fantastically successful transfer of wealth UPWARD, from the poor to the ultra-rich. Instead of "busting the trusts," as TR did, the merger of giant corporations is actually encouraged and facilitated. Can you imagine TR's reaction to the horror "Exxon-Mobil"?

[liberalitch]

2. Living and dead

Dead..... Lincoln hands down

Living.... Chuck hagel

[Dzimbowicz]

3. If I had to make a choice

then Ike would probably be it.

[Obamarama]

5. Such a creature does not exist in my world....

It's sort of like asking "Who is your favorite Nazi." There simply is no answer to that question.

Edit: I'm not flaming the originator of the thread for posing the question. I'm not offended by the question or the DUer who asked it. I'm just stating how the question strikes me.

[Isere]

6. I have no favorite either...

Eisenhower's son is no longer a Republican, BTW. He changed his registration to Independent.

I used to have some "pet" Republicans that I admired, but no more. Sure, Chuck Hagel is speaking the truth about Iraq, but at the end of the day they are all collaborators. Snowe, Collins, Chaffee, McCain...the whole sorry lot of them. They approve the extremist judges, they vote for majority leaders like Lott or Frist. They go out on the stump for Bush.

So I've just given up on them.

Now if you want to discuss favorite Democrats...:-)

[Obamarama]

7. Are you in Paris (re: your Tour Eiffel avatar image) ?

[Isere]

8. Only in spirit...

Are you in Kalamazoo?

[Eric J in MN]

9. Kevin Phillips, author of "The Politics of Rich and Poor" and

a book about Bush, has something to be said for him.

[Mz Pip]

10. Chaffee

He said he isn't voting for Bush.

None of the other Pugs have said that.

MzPip
:dem:

[Kanary]

11. In his day, I had great respect for John Heinz. COMPASSION was his middle

name.

A very sad loss.

Kanary

[Cha]

12. John Eisenhower!

Dude Rocks!

[Maestro]

13. For comic relief

Zell Miller...:lol:

[VotefurKerry]

14. Abe Lincoln

n/t

[FlemingsGhost]

15. My father.

God bless him.

[proud patriot]

16. My Grandfather and Grandmother tie

I love them dearly :loveya:

[MADem]

17. Ed Brooke

First 'modern day' Black Senator from Massachusetts, knew how to do the Hustle (when the Hustle was big) and a generally cool dude.

[slinkerwink]

18. My father----who's voting for Kerry

[5thGenDemocrat]

19. Hazen S Pingree

Mayor of Detroit (1890-96), Governor of Michigan (1896-1900). Maybe America's first progressive -- even before Teddy Roosevelt, Tom Johnson and Fighting Bob LaFollette. I encourage all DUers to Google him sometime.
John
Pingree was both mayor AND governor for a short time until the Michigan Supreme Court said he couldn't do that. He turned vacant city lots over to the poor to raise gardens in Detroit during the 1893 recession and kept the street railway fares at three cents.
He was a big hero to the working class though, it should go without saying, the wealthy hated his guts and thought him a traitor to his class (they were right).

[sweetheart]

20. Tony Benn

I've just been searching for a reference, but he said something like:
Every time i had to kneel and take an oath before the queen i had
my fingers crossed.

A republican, an outstanding socialist and statesman.

http://www.tonybenn.com

All the american ones supported just too much racism for being
held up as heros... even great ones like eisenhower.

Lincoln was wrong to kill 2% of americans... bzzzt.
TR was an egotist who wrongly lead the country to war.
Eisenhower did not end the tyrrany of the very military complex
he warned of... leaving him the most honourable of a litany of
losers... but tony benn has at least been true, minus his ass
kissing to the monarchy.