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ruggerson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 11:25 PM Original message |
Would JFK Have Been Bashed Here As A DNC DINO? |
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Vinnie From Indy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 11:28 PM Response to Original message |
1. Yeah but he banged Marilyn. Those other guys haven't done shit! |
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win_in_06 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 09:01 AM Response to Reply #1 |
34. and let his brother bang her too. But he was a big-time advocate of |
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Gman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 11:29 PM Response to Original message |
2. Hell, FDR wasn't liberal enough for some people here |
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Andromeda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 03:41 AM Response to Reply #2 |
29. How true.... |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
3. Very, very different time in America--you can't compare then to now... |
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jackbourassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 12:10 AM Response to Reply #3 |
17. One problem...JFK wasn't a DLC "Dino" |
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PretzelWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
4. 2002 and 2004. DEMS got SCREWED for being Republican-LITE |
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Somawas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
5. And yet, by the standards of today's Republicans, Nixon would be a |
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Czolgosz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 11:36 PM Response to Original message |
6. You're nuts. Dixiecrats were the DINOs of JFK's day. JFK was not GOP-lite. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 11:38 PM Response to Original message |
7. Probably, first thing he did was cut taxes on his rich buddies. |
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SaveElmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 12:20 AM Response to Reply #7 |
21. True about tax cuts...but |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 12:29 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Yes they were! For God sake, can't even the DU folks agree that |
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snowbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 11:39 PM Response to Original message |
8. We'll duke it out right up till a candidate is chosen.. :o) |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 11:45 PM Response to Original message |
9. You are talking about an entirely different era |
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Rowdyboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
10. Primary 1960 would have been absolute HELL on DU!!! |
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ruggerson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 11:55 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Didn't Kefauver run too? |
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Rowdyboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 12:03 AM Response to Reply #11 |
15. I think Stevenson let the convention decide between Kennedy and Kefauver |
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Catchawave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 11:57 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. LOL....those were the days! |
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Rowdyboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 12:02 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. There would have been a few, but he'd have been too conservative |
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shance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
13. JFK had signed instructions to withdraw from Vietnam before he was killed. |
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Catchawave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 12:07 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. What happened ? |
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tsuki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 12:13 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. LBJ. |
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radio4progressives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 12:31 AM Response to Reply #16 |
24. He was about to start right after the thanksgiving holidays .. |
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lostnfound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 04:05 AM Response to Reply #13 |
31. OMG. I didn't know that. |
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1932 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 09:21 AM Response to Reply #13 |
37. He had to prepare them in secrecy from State and Defense Departments. |
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...of J.Temperance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
18. I've had Repukes tell me that JFK would be a Repuke today |
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ruggerson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 12:18 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Lyndon had far more liberal instincts than JFK |
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...of J.Temperance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 12:25 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Have you ever read |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 12:40 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. LBJ had some great ideas, but as a person, he was sure not |
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...of J.Temperance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 12:46 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. But to survive in politics THAT'S how you have to be |
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1932 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 09:24 AM Response to Reply #20 |
38. LBJ wasn't in Kennedy's foreign policy inner circle and wasn't |
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liberalpragmatist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 01:52 AM Response to Original message |
27. Probably - he was a pretty moderate Democrat |
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MrBenchley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 02:56 AM Response to Original message |
28. Probably |
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ToeBot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 03:50 AM Response to Original message |
30. I would certainly hope so |
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mrgorth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 08:42 AM Response to Original message |
32. NO |
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MaineDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
33. Of course there was a DNC |
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purji (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 09:17 AM Response to Original message |
35. So I'm supposed to trust the opinion of some one |
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1932 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
36. Kennedy wasn't a Market Fundamentalist, was critical of empire and |
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nickshepDEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
39. Probably... |
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BlueAwards (165 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
40. Yes... but |
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jonnyblitz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
41. yeah I probably would and so what if I did? |
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wiley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
42. Who here would bet against you? |
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