Reminder of what a Republican was once upon a time

[Peace Piper]

Contrast this speech with the Trump Buffoon's crude attempts to communicate


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyBNmecVtdU

The most important part


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCEOgamC1p0

If only Americans had listened to Eisenhower. But they didn't.

And now every single day another ~$200 million dollars is stolen from the nation (http://costofwar.com)and used to bomb, invade and chase "terrorists" (that the US Funds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAXg2gwktxY)) around sand dunes 8,000 miles away.

[Anti Globalist]

Yeah the Republican party is in shambles. Been that way for a very long time.

[acptulsa]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5puwTrLRhmw

[PAF]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5puwTrLRhmw

Great words. Great words to live by.

Too bad many here don’t live by those words, and hope... no, expect... no, demand, that this “government do something”.

[Anti Federalist]

Operation Wetback. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback)

Uh oh...

[Anti Globalist]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5puwTrLRhmw
A man we need now more than ever.

[Swordsmyth]

Operation Wetback. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback)

Uh oh...
And Coolidge sharply limited legal immigration.

[specsaregood]

"Reminder of what a Republican was once upon a time"
The first republican president was Abraham Lincoln who led the US into a war of aggression in which more Americans died than any other war. Good reminder.

[Anti Federalist]

And Coolidge sharply limited legal immigration.

Why yes, yes, he did.

And the Act he signed restricted or ceased immigration by country and ethnicity. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924)

Double "uh-oh".

That Act was law until 1965 when Ted Kennedy and other First Gen shadow Marxists passed the Immigration and Nationality Act in 1965 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965)

They lied and told the American people that "the bill would not affect US demographic mix."

They knew what they were doing all along.

And they have been wildly successful.

[ILUVRP]

i like ike

[acptulsa]

And Coolidge sharply limited legal immigration.

Did he violate the Constitution in order to build any insanely expensive infrastructure that couldn't possibly work (even if it didn't have a big beautiful door in it)?

Then I guess Trump is no Calvin Coolidge.

[Anti Globalist]

Eisenhower may have warned us about the MIC but that doesn't change the fact that he played a role in it. Remember, he got us involved in the Vietnam War when he sent generals and troops there.

[Superfluous Man]

Eisenhower's warning against the MIC was commendable, and the fact that he gave that speech puts him in a class above most of today's Republicans (which isn't saying a lot). But saying something in a farewell address when you no longer will ever have power to do anything about it at the tail end of 8 years when you did have that power, and didn't use that power to do much good, can only be worth so much praise.

Don't forget that Eisenhower was nominated by the Republicans in 1952 as the establishment's big-government choice to shut down the candidacy of Robert Taft, a true small government Republican of the Old Right. What Taft faced that year, as well as in previous presidential elections was not unlike what Ron Paul faced.

[PAF]

Eisenhower's warning against the MIC was commendable, and the fact that he gave that speech puts him in a class above most of today's Republicans (which isn't saying a lot). But saying something in a farewell address when you no longer will ever have power to do anything about it at the tail end of 8 years when you did have that power, and didn't use that power to do much good, can only be worth so much praise.

Don't forget that Eisenhower was nominated by the Republicans in 1952 as the establishment's big-government choice to shut down the candidacy of Robert Taft, a true small government Republican of the Old Right. What Taft faced that year, as well as in previous presidential elections was not unlike what Ron Paul faced.


Like signing Omnibus and then promising not to do it again, until the “emergency” bill... it helps ease the conscious.

Hind sight is 20/20, even when know in advance.

[CCTelander]

Operation Wetback. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback)

Uh oh...


Or, Operation Keelhaul, the forced repatriation of millions of Russian POWs and others after WWII. They were considered by Stalin to be traitors to communism and were either summarily shot or hanged, or sent to gulags to be worked to death. That was Ike's baby too, as I recall.

Not my idea of a sterling character to be emulated.

[fedupinmo]

"Reminder of what a Republican was once upon a time"
The first republican president was Abraham Lincoln who led the US into a war of aggression in which more Americans died than any other war. Good reminder.

And virtually destroyed Federalism in the process...

[specsaregood]

Don't forget that Eisenhower was nominated by the Republicans in 1952 as the establishment's big-government choice to shut down the candidacy of Robert Taft, a true small government Republican of the Old Right. What Taft faced that year, as well as in previous presidential elections was not unlike what Ron Paul faced.

Indeed:



At the Republican nominating convention, "dirty tricks" abounded. The rules for selecting delegates were changed; Taft delegations from Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas were thrown out and replaced by Eisenhower supporters.

"First, it was the power of the New York financial interests and a large number of businessmen subject to New York influence, who selected Gen. Eisenhower as their candidate at least a year ago... Second, four-fifths of the influential newspapers in the country were opposed to me continuously and vociferously and many turned themselves into propaganda sheets for my opponent."--Taft
From: "Shadows of Power", pg. 103

[Anti Globalist]

To be fair, even if Taft got elected President in 1952, his presidency would have been short lived. Taft ended up being diagnosed with cancer a few months after the election and died in July 1953. Had he got elected in 1940 or 1948 it wouldn't have been a problem.

[Swordsmyth]

Eisenhower may have warned us about the MIC but that doesn't change the fact that he played a role in it. Remember, he got us involved in the Vietnam War when he sent generals and troops there.
:check:

[Swordsmyth]

To be fair, even if Taft got elected President in 1952, his presidency would have been short lived. Taft ended up being diagnosed with cancer a few months after the election and died in July 1953. Had he got elected in 1940 or 1948 it wouldn't have been a problem.

We are lucky that Ron didn't turn up with some convenient fatal illness.