Wednesday Toon Roundup 2- Goodbye, Shirley

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[Gothmog]

1. Thank you for the cartoons

[planetc]

2. all toons

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024486739

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024486746

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024486750

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024486752

[madokie]

3. Thanks

[marble falls]

4. Nice Shirley Temple stuff.

[SheilaT]

5. Am I the only one who remembers

that she became quite conservative as an adult? Not a Tea Partier, but certainly conservative. I can recall listening to her probably in the 1980's and being quite bothered by her conservatism.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

6. Same here. I thought she was absolutely adorable as a child, but I was disappointed

that she supported so many things I opposed. Her films seemed to show people doing much of what conservatives do as the bad guy, so why would she end up on their side?

[SheilaT]

7. Because she got rich, not to put too fine a point on it.

And I'm not sure she was ever actually poor as a child. As a movie star, she was very protected from the Depression.

[BuelahWitch]

8. She grew up a Republican

Her parents were Republicans before she ever got into the movies. Her second husband, Charles Black, was also a Republican.

[alp227]

9. Don't know about her specific political positions,

but Temple ran for Congress in 1967 special election as a conservative challenger to liberal anti-war Republican Pete McCloskey. She also served as an ambassador during the Nixon, Ford, and Bush 41 administrations (those presidents weren't particularly conservative). Temple also campaigned for Eisenhower in the '50s after marrying Charles Black.

[JHB]

10. Nixon wasn't "particularly conservative"?

The guy whose redbaiting was second only to McCarthy? The guy whose loss in 1960 has been a bloody shirt for conservatives to waive since before I was born? Former boss of Roger Ailes, William Safire, and Pat Buchanan?
That Nixon?

If Nixon seems "not particularly conservative", it's because the political environment he had to operate in wasn't dominated by guanopath zealots on the right and "centrists" who in Nixon's day would have been the conservative end of the Rockefeller Republicans.