From a republican

[Cetacea]

"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 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."

And, of course, "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."

Gen.Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address to the Nation, 1961

[Mz Pip]

1. I doubt Eisenhower

could win the GOP nomination in this political climate. Even Nixon would be considered too liberal.

[blondeatlast]

5. The GOP of today would call Eisenhower a "fringe" candidate--and yet Pawlin and Huckabee

are mainstream for them.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

7. ...and Reagan, too!! n/t

[arbusto_baboso]

13. Ike couldn't even get the nomination as a Dem.

That's how far right the spectrum has shifted since then.

[Skidmore]

2. Thank you.

I sending this on to my friends.

[T Wolf]

3. If only we had Democrats who spoke like this - in charge of our party. Those in power today would

probably call Ike a communist.

[atreides1]

4. Ike was a Republican

Unfortunately those who claim that title now in office, are not.

They for lack of a better definition are fascist, they embrace the integration of government and corporations.

The Republican party ceased to exist after St. Ronnie became president, the title was kept so that the morons, rubes, and those that are easily manipulated, would have a sense of the familiar.

[Demoiselle]

6. Right, atreides 1.,

I miss Republicans. Of course, there are many days when I miss Democrats, too.

[Kennah]

12. There will be at least one Democrat ...

... so long as Sen. Bernie Sanders serves.

[Drale]

8. Its kind of funny Eisenhower said this

since he is the only president in history to institute a peace time draft.

[Roma]

9. And this from a guy who started us down the road

To the quagmire that was Viet Nam with financial aid, military advisors and of course the CIA's Air America.

And then as a follow up he ordered the planning of the ill fated Bay Of Pigs invasion. I remember at the time it was said Eisenhower planned it, Kennedy implemented it and the CIA bungled it. And the finger pointing began. Ike's apologists famously contended that the plan was only a contingency and was never considered seriously.

Interesting times some of us lived in.

[Kennah]

10. Ike would probably be attacked today by the GOP ...

... because he wasn't a "real soldier" who served in combat. The Tea Baggers would put a hating on him unlike anything they put on Gen. Colin Powell who did serve in combat.

[librechik]

11. I love that quotation. So true

[progressoid]

14. Commie Liberal clap trap.

Oh, wait.