I have a deep, dark secret and it's time to let it go.

[Jackpine Radical]

I voted for Eisenhower. Both times.

(Of course it was in grade school mock elections, but still...)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. You know......if Ike were alive today...

He'd be a Democrat...

[provis99]

6. things are so far out of whack,

that if Nixon were alive today, he'd be too liberal for Republicans, and HE'D be a Democrat.

[ShadowLiberal]

15. Yep, didn't Ike warn against the kind of conservatism that conservatives embrace today?

[ashling]

17. If I were alive today

I wouldn't be a zombie
:rofl:

[itsrobert]

2. Worse: You voted for Nixon

He was on the ticket.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Oh, fuck, you're right! I hadn't thought of that.

[Dinger]

28. Well Now You've Done It JR

You're screwed.:evilgrin:

[Oregone]

23. He was more liberal than some modern Dems

And probably just as corrupt. Still a racist dick

[Colobo]

4. Ike seemed to be a decent person.

You know, I have a soft spot for Gerald Ford. I wasn't even born yet, but I've tried to find as much as I can about his presidency and who he was as a person, and he seemed to be a decent person trying to do what he could in the midst of disaster. Perhaps I'm very wrong, but I like what I know about the man.

[connecticut yankee]

13. I voted for Jerry Ford

He was a decent person,and he did try to do what he could in the midst of disaster.

I thought he was right in pardoning Nixon. The country would have been torn apart if he (Nixon) had been tried and convicted. And no one despised Nixon more than I.

I have always been an avid Democrat, but I voted for Ford because I thought Jimmy Carter was inept. And I was proven right.

I think Carter has been an excellent Former President, though. He's done many wonderful things.

By the way, when Carter ran for re-election in 1980, I voted for John Anderson.

[DURHAM D]

25. I voted for Carter in 1976.

But, just last weekend I cleaned out my closet and was going through my political t-shirt collection. I found a t-shirt I bought in N.Y. during that campaign that said "Re-elect Ford". The street vendor did not even know what was funny about it. Its a keeper.

Like you I voted for Anderson in '80.

[vixengrl]

5. I voted for Reagan in one of mine.

I was eight--what did I know?

[Crunchy Frog]

7. Ike was practically a commie by today's standards.

[DJ13]

8. Dont feel bad, my first real vote was in 76 for Reagan in the primary

Voted for Carter in the GE though.

Couldnt stand Ford for 4 more years.

[Honeycombe8]

10. I voted for Reagan in the GE (blush). But wasn't that in 1980? Not '76?

It was Carter vs. .... who...in 1976? Was it Reagan then, too?

[DJ13]

12. Reagan challenged Ford in the primaries

[The Magistrate]

9. He was The Man For The Job At The Time, Sir

Gov. Stevenson was a fine man, but he would never have been able to hold LeMay in check. Gen. Eisenhower could.

[Jackpine Radical]

34. That was another time in history when the rabid monkeys were running loose.

Joe McCarthy was still going strong in '52, and I remember people in my family who supported Douglas MacArthur in the primary because he wanted to use nukes to settle the Korean War.

BTW, I seem to recall that Ike surreptitiously helped to put the skids under Tail Gunner Joe.

[susanna]

11. Well, I think you need to go sit in the corner and consider your behavior.

Nah, just kidding. Great post. A moment of humor is always welcome. :-)

[pnwmom]

14. Eisenhower would probably be a Democrat today. n/t

[Arkana]

16. There are worse things.

[TheKentuckian]

18. Ike was the last respectable Republican President and I mean the last

they'll probably never offer another even capable candidate.

[NBachers]

19. I still respect that name

"I Like Ike" probably rang a bell with you.

Kennedy and Mad Magazine brought me into the Democratic fold, and I haven't wavered with my vote once since then.

Oh wait- I did a write-in vote for Barry Commoner in 1980. He was an eco-Socialist, running as a member of the Citizen's Party. I've always been a strong Carter advocate, but I think I saw the Reagan writing on the wall.

From Wikipedia: His 1971 book, The Closing Circle, suggested a left-wing, eco-socialist response to the limits to growth thesis, postulating that capitalist technologies were chiefly responsible for environmental degradation, as opposed to population pressures. In 1980, he founded the Citizens Party to serve as a vehicle for his ecological message, and his candidacy for President on the Citizens Party ticket won 233,052 votes (0.27% of the total) <1>. His official running mate was La Donna Harris, although she was replaced on the ballot in Ohio by Wretha Hanson.

Sorry, Jackpine- kind of a Highjack!

[Jackpine Radical]

35. Great highjack, though.

Haven't thought about Barry Commoner in years. Gad, what a great name for a proto-Green socialist.

[fishnfla]

20. if you were wearing a monkey mask at the time you are scot free

i'm getting me one of them

[nevergiveup]

21. "In Ike we trusted and now we are busted"

I remember seeing these bumper stickers in 1956. I grew up in what at the time was a very Democratic rural county in southern Illinois. My Dad, however, was a Republican and I am sure I voted for Ike in grade school. This county today is unfortunately very racist and Republican.

[Dinger]

22. *FREEPER* *ALERT*

:sarcasm:

Just kiddin' ya. You know I :loveya:

P.S. JUst sent this to the greatest page.:patriot:

[Froward69]

24. Ike was the last

Honest, Decent Republican. he would have been elected no matter what party he was.
forgivable. (I once voted for Regan the same way)

[DURHAM D]

26. Eisenhower was my first presidential campaign.

My grandfather was one of his county chairman and we campaigned all over my home state (Kansas) in his DeSoto.

I still have a bunch of "I Like Ike" buttons. In fact, just for fun, I wore one during much of last year's primary.

[madamesilverspurs]

27. Ah, that rang a bell.

My mother, who just turned 90, still has a test paper that was given to her during my third grade parent-teacher conference. Seems I'd finished the test and gotten bored, so I'd turned the paper over to do some doodling. My classmates got done with the test before I finished my doodling and we had to turn them in, so the back of that paper displays crudely drawn block letters proclaiming, "Yay Ike! Boo Ste". Got an extra nickel in my allowance that week.

[create.peace]

29. i drank goldwater (pop) at a goldwater rally at knott's berry farm

i was just a kid, and made up for it by not standing up for reagan years later, when my folks took me to the opening of the john wayne theater. my mother thought the secret service (or the california equivalent) was going to take me away. he was gov, then.

[Shanti Mama]

30. I sang this song in early elementary school

Whistle while you work.
Kennedy is a jerk.
Eisenhower has the power
To make Kennedy work.

Hello?

[Raine]

31. I have a deeper darker secret

the first vote I cast was for :blush: ... Richard Nixon. :hide:

[Arugula Latte]

32. We sang a mean song on the playground:

"McGovern is a nut
He has a rubber butt
And every time he turns around
He goes putt, putt."

Sorry, Sen. McGovern! :hi: I wised up when I was 14 and that asshole Reagan came along. I hated everything that came out of his mouth and couldn't believe people fell for his stupid lies. Turned me liberal on the spot.

[proud patriot]

33. I forgive you

:)

[Yuugal]

36. Ike "got it"

"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."

Too bad Obama doesn't seem to understand that.