Would Eisenhower be a Democrat today?

[ButterflyBlood]

Well his son endorsed Kerry today, but if his dad was still around would he be a Republican? I doubt it after seeing this quote:

“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.”

Doesn't sound like a Repuke to me!

[Big Al from WI]

1. Both the Dems and the Repubs wanted him

he just chose the Repubs. And the Dems countered with Adlai Stevenson, who from what I heard would have been great too. Would that it were, that we had not one, but two excellent choices today. Instead we have a horrible president in the lead against a very good candidate.

[Lucky Luciano]

2. Eisenhower definitely seems liberal compared to

the latest fascists. Maybe it is all relative. He also warned in his preseidential farewell address against the impending military industrial complex. Good thing, American politicians got the message :eyes:.


I now join the dreaded 700-club....

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

3. Hell, Nixon would be a liberal by today's standards

Supported...welfare, nationalized health care, strong foreign diplomacy, a balanced budget, social security...the list goes on.
BTW, I am no Nixon fan. This just shows how far to the right the radical right is. MKJ

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

4. Dupe

MKJ

[elperromagico]

5. He mainly ran as a Republican to hold back the conservative element

of the party, commonly known then as the Taft wing. And his election as President certainly helped hold it back until '64 - Nixon was many things, but he wasn't a diehard conservative - when the uber-conservatives asserted themselves by holding back "liberal Republicans" like Rockefeller and Romney and choosing Goldwater instead.

[JohnKleeb]

7. yep

[Barney Rocks]

10. I agree!

Goldwater was scary! The Ronald Reagan of his day. If Eisenhower (and yes, even Nixon--who was socially OK) had not held the line--we would have had this horrible "conservative" take-over of the government even sooner. Imagine the horror of neo-cons fighting us for control from the sixties on! At least Eisenhower (and Nixon and Ford) were much more moderate--and we didn't get stuck with the neocons until 1980 and Reagan.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

6. I have read his entire farewell speech

and I have read many more of his speeches and a short biography of his and I have NO DOUBT he would be a Dem if he were alive and running for office today.

No doubt of it.

[Barney Rocks]

8. you know something,

even back then--I think he could have gone either way. He seems (from reading history and hearing remembrances of older folks) like a pretty good guy--a decent general and well liked. Not an outstanding president--but not terrible either.

[eridani]

9. I think he would probably have pulled a Jim Jeffords--

--and become independent. Wonder how long the two Maine senators will be with the Rethugs.