Drip Drip Drip
“Heightening the contrast”
Senator Kassebaum:
“I’m a Republican, but that doesn’t mean you walk lock step always with the party,”
Someone needs to remind Nancy what the party is like now… She remembers a party that had Barry Goldwater, Nelson Rockefeller, and others who would be shown the door today for their views.
I hope those endorsements make a difference we need. This race as it stands now seems to be pretty much a toss-up and every bit of help matters.
Wanna’ laud Nelson Rockefeller? Fine.
But Goldwater???
That motherfucker STARTED this whole paranoid, conspiracy theory-driven, Bircher-pandering, rabble-rousing mishegas.
And Ronzo Ray-gun was his senile spawn.
Fuck Goldwater, now and forever!
And the stubborn 2-time loser running as an “independent” isn’t helping matters, either.
Yeah, and that happens too often in too many close races, not just in this one. I want to kick all those idiots in the ass, those candidates AND voters.
There was also Jacob Javits, John Lindsay as well as James Buckley all from NY, all moderate Rs. Maybe Senator Kassebaum knows more about her party than she is letting on. But I’d have to agree with @pike_bishop about dropping Goldwater from the pantheon but with less fury.
It is only my opinion, I was NEVER a Goldwater fan, but his stand on social issues would never fly in today’s GOP… it’s starting to get to the point were Reagan might even not fly with some of the “most crazy” GOPers
Reagan was a godamm socialist compared to this crew…
Poor Kris, can’t even get support from members of his own party. Too bad . . . . for Kobach, . . . but very good for Kansas, and the rest of the U.S.
Maybe after Kobach loses he’ll crawl back into the hole from which he came.
Always remember Reagan announced his 1980 run in Philadelphia, Mississippi. He was following the Southern Strategy playbook, and he never left it.
Don’t worry, I wasn’t cutting the Gipper any slack…
He might have been the first to perfect dog whistle politics…
You joke, but Reagan was a union official for a time, not to mention a Democrat for decades — and a real one, too: an FDR Democrat and not a “Reagan Democrat.”
Then things changed.
Just try to imagine George Shultz as Sec State now. Wouldn’t last two minutes.
As for good old “Au H2O” as the Herblock cartoons used to tag him, he did settle down a bit in his older and wiser years…
…or maybe the party left him, to borrow a phrase.
Actually it was his union official stint that apparently set him on his right wing path. He also appeared before the HUAC Committee and named names.
Strangely enough, Nixon is practically a Communist compared to the present TrumParty.
I blame Jane Wyman.
I don’t blame anyone external to Ronald Reagan himself. He was a shallow, mediocre actor with a shallow, mediocre mind. The USSR Roku Channel has a propaganda film he narrated/read and the part about the Spanish Civil War is full of total made up Cold War Era lies about the Spanish Republic that was abandoned by the US and UK to fight a well trained and supplied Falange/Army without access to arms and food imports. Anyway, probably typical of his post Hollywood Gig as scripted public speaker for General Electric, one of the most right wing, anti union employers on the face of the Earth in the post-Medieval era. It launched him into his political career, the first stop of which was being the worst Governor in the history of California.