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2016 Postmortem

liberal N proud

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1. Kennedy is the reason the Right Wing created the Ronald Reagan myth

Reply to RBInMaine (Original post)

Mon Nov 25, 2013, 08:17 AM

Nov 2013

They needed a hero to look up to so they proclaimed Reagan to be the greatest Conservative President in history. It was all a myth that with a little help from the media has made Reagan their hero, sort of.

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Debunking the SILLY right wing meme that "Today, Kennedy would be a Republican." [View all] RBInMaine Nov 2013 OP

Kennedy is the reason the Right Wing created the Ronald Reagan myth liberal N proud Nov 2013 #1

Yes..Before him, they had to "borrow" past democrats..Remember the awesome Lloyd Bentson response to whathehell Nov 2013 #30

He was also for universal healthcare .... Scuba Nov 2013 #2

If Republicans want to model themselves after Kennedy, I can live with that. Tigress DEM Nov 2013 #3

A product of his times - TBF Nov 2013 #4

Also Robbins Nov 2013 #5

Kennedy would have bombed and invaded if the Russians didn't blink. Invasion was ready to go. BUT, RBInMaine Nov 2013 #12

We have no way to know for sure what he would've done if the Russians didn't blink Hippo_Tron Nov 2013 #26

Today's Republicans NewJeffCT Nov 2013 #13

OMG...The anti-historical, anti-intellectual nature of the GOP is getting absolutely 1984-ish. whathehell Nov 2013 #6

Well, it's very debatable if he was more progressive than BC or BO, but he was progressive. RBInMaine Nov 2013 #11

I'm sorry, but I doubt most would find it debatable at all.. whathehell Nov 2013 #16

None of those you mention could ever win a national election. Sorry, but you're pipe dreaming. And, RBInMaine Nov 2013 #31

Yeah, that's what Bill Clinton, and many others, said about Obama in '08.. whathehell Nov 2013 #32

Kennedy did a lot of shitty things to fellow Democrats, Arkana Nov 2013 #7

Such as? whathehell Nov 2013 #18

Well, his family donated to Richard Nixon's Senate campaign Arkana Nov 2013 #20

Okay, but that's only one thing, and as you said, he later regretted it. whathehell Nov 2013 #23

Not as pro-union as you might like: Arkana Nov 2013 #24

Maybe not, but that still translates whathehell Nov 2013 #28

You're gonna try logic and fact with the repiggies? rock Nov 2013 #8

I don't expect them to listen. But they do "hear" it, and it makes them squirm. So I have fun. :-) RBInMaine Nov 2013 #14

The successful Kennedy said "Success has a thousand fathers, defeat is an orphan." nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2013 #9

Ask them if they want to go back to JFK's "Republican" tax rate? NewJeffCT Nov 2013 #10

Yes, I'm sure they'd LOVE that, Lol...By the way, he did that ONLY with the provision that whathehell Nov 2013 #19

Hell, Ike would be a Democrat for sure. Lasher Nov 2013 #15

Republicans must not really think much of themselves and their *leaders* Proud Liberal Dem Nov 2013 #17

They have a simple mindset... Wounded Bear Nov 2013 #21

Repukes can only wish they had a JFK Carolina Nov 2013 #22

That top tax rate was 90%, Kennedy cut it to 70% Hippo_Tron Nov 2013 #25

Tell them to read Goldwater's last speeches HockeyMom Nov 2013 #27

They like to pretend the same thing about Truman. yellowcanine Nov 2013 #29