Do You Think This Republican Would Change Parties Today?

[Playinghardball]

Dwight D. Eisenhower really nailed it, nearly 60 years ago.



Source: MoveOn.org

[GSLevel9]

1. awesome quote I couldn't agree more. nt

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

2. Eisenhower would not be allowed in the GOP nowadays....

Nevermind get the chance to leave it.

[starroute]

7. Eisenhower was not exactly a Republican to begin with

He was a war hero with no particular party identification. There were Democrats who wanted him to challenge Truman for the nomination in 1948, when it seemed that Truman had no chance of reelection.

The real difference is that the GOP would probably not be willing to accept an Eisenhower equivalent today (Petraeus, for example), even if they were able to saddle him with a Nixon equivalent as ballast.

[madinmaryland]

3. Recommended! Regardless of the party, all Americans should think this way.

What ever happened to this nation?

[City Lights]

4. K&R.

:thumbsup:

[tblue37]

5. Heck, if Richard Nixon were alive today, he would be to the left of the

Democratic Party on most subjects. For sure he would be too liberal for the Republicans!

[deaniac21]

6. Very true

[TexasProgresive]

8. Like many career military until recently he was likely unpolitical.

He made a choice when he decided to run for president. At the time the Republicans were anti-war and military-industrial complex. Ike shut down more then one defense plant including one where my Dad worked. Things are different now. (no shit Sherlock, to myself)

[abelenkpe]

9. K&R nt

[Scuba]

10. That filthy hippie!!!

[Kingofalldems]

11. He predicted wealthy Texas oilmen would come after Social Security

Gov. Perry called SS a Ponzi scheme.

[RZM]

12. If I remember correctly

It's been along time since I read a bio of him, but the Dems did try to recruit him after the war and he decided to go the other way.

I'd say the best guess would be that if he were alive now, his political leanings would be similar to those of high-ranking military officers today. That means there's a good chance he would be a Republican, though perhaps a moderate one unhappy with the current course that party is on.

[libinnyandia]

13. Liberal Republicans

It is so funny to hear so many Republicans worship at the temple of Rpnald Reagan. WWhile Reagan's legacy is pretty horrible, he raised taxes several times. You would think that the new Republicans wouldn't go near his library. He wouldn't get the nomination today and certainly Eisenhower wouldn't.

[Ishoutandscream2]

14. Yes. I knew who you were talking about before opening your thread

He would absolutely despise the extremism of the Republicans.

[jwirr]

15. Yes and I worked to beat him in every election. Economically we

Democrats were dissatisfied with many of his policies but not with his wisdom regarding the military and world issues. By the way he was asked to run by both parties. Took the rethug deal.

[indepat]

16. Proud my wife and progeny are Ike's cousins, albeit three- to six-generations

removed. :patriot:

[Brigid]

17. If Ike were in the GOP today . . .

He would be kicked out for saying this.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

18. I encourage people to use this quote uncredited as a sig on other message boards

And when the righties in the house say it sounds like Teddy Kennedy or Jimmy Carter......hit them with who said it.

[Brigid]

19. The interesting thing is . . .

Most of us here at DU know the source of this quote. I wonder how many at Freeper-type message boards can truthfully say that.