Was Eisenhower The Last Republican President

[banana republican]

Nixon -> Watergate
Regan -> Iran Contra
Bush I -> Iraq I
Bush II -> Iraq II

Was Dwight Eisnehower the last *honorable* republican President

[lcordero]

1. kinda

Nixon was a liberal(maybe the last). He passed OSHA, EPA, and his Supreme Court apointees supported Roe vs Wade.

He(Ike) had his own set of "neocons" I think. The coup of Iran happened during his administration.

[DieboldMustDie]

8. So you agree with Ann Coulter re. Nixon's being a liberal?

;) While OSHA and the EPA were created on his watch, keep in mind that Democrats controlled both houses of Congress back then.   Granted he wasn't anywhere near the right wing extremest that George II is.

[demsrule4life]

2. Just wondering

what was wrong with Iraq 1?

[madrchsod]

3. Ike had to deal

with Stalin,who killed more people than Hitler.the Russians were challenging the united states interests all over the world. given the fact that even our form of democracy is not perfect it is much better than Stalinizm Ike had his faults but they pale in comparison to the bush the lesser and the boy king

[FloridaPat]

4. Your forgot Ford. Actually I thought Nixon was the last

republican president. He did some good things - got us out of Vietnam; got the veterans that were arrested by DOJ out of jail. YHes, he had Watergate, which at this point seems like a stupid prank after Regan and the Bushes.

[LTR]

7. Ford was an honest guy

Did some things that were unpopular to some at the time, but honestly felt he was doing it for the good of the country. I even understand his reasoning for pardoning Nixon. He really wanted to move the country ahead.

Hell, he actually was pro-choice and supported the ERA. How many Repugs can you say that about?

[flaminbats]

14. Ford was the first to discover Reagan wasn't a GOD...

and that supply-side was the quickest path into hell. :evilfrown:

[DieboldMustDie]

5. Though Eisenhower did overthrow democracy in Iran.

see All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer.

[kskiska]

6. Ike LIED!

I was a teenager back then, but I vividly remember when Francis Gary Powers' U2 was shot down over the USSR. Ike assumed he was dead, and repeatedly denied the US was spying on Russia. Then Kruschev produced Powers – alive. It was very humiliating.

[mykpart]

9. Actually I read someplace that Ike

was a Democrat until he ran for President!

[kskiska]

11. Not really. Ike was apolitical while in the Army.

After the war, both parties tried to get him to run on their tickets. He had to choose, and chose Republican for unknown reasons.

[starroute]

13. Democrats were wooing him in 1948, Republicans in 1952

Truman was looking very weak in the spring of 1948, and there were party members who thought Ike would be a better bet as a candidate. Then Truman's support picked up again, and the idea was dropped.

In 1952, it was the Republicans who were looking for a candidate with mainstream appeal, and they approached Eisenhower in a more serious and committed way than the Democrats ever had.

[Gadave]

16. Generals have to be political too

All Generals have to play politics to varying degrees. Maybe not the same rep/dem style we are used to, but its present.

[MAlibdem]

10. I think at some point

The Republican Party of the past joined with the modern Democratic Party (see Joe Lieberman, Breax, etc) and the other half (silent majority types?) began to lie lie lie and make crap up.

But I could be totally wrong.

There just seem to be two different wavelengths, one in reality, and one in la-la land of supply side economics.

(BTW DONT GET ME STARTED ON SUPPLY SIDE ECONOMICS, THIS SOON-TO-BE ECON MAJOR WILL GO NUTTY!)

[Cleita]

12. I think he was the only honorable one after Teddy Roosevelt.

Republican President Herbert Hoover brought us the great depression.

[CHIMO]

15. He Did

Warn against the military complex.