Which Republicans of the past would be Dems now?

[LittleClarkie]

Eisenhower?

Lincoln?

Teddy Roosevelt?

Earl Warren?

[LynneSin]

1. I'd probably say just about anyone before Thurmond & Helms

left the democratic party and joined the repukes. It was all downhill from there.

[teenagebambam]

2. My grandfather

[LittleClarkie]

4. I just recently found out that my favorite silent star was a Repub

Harold Lloyd.

I was quite distressed until I looked up who he supported for president. Chief Justice Earl Warren and Ike.

I think he'd be a Dem now too.

Kinda silly, but that's what prompted the thread.

[smokey nj]

3. I'd say all four.............

In fact, Eisenhower's son left the Republican junta and endorsed John Kerry in 2004.

[Turbineguy]

5. Nixon

n/t

[LittleClarkie]

6. You think?

He was kinda liberal for a Republican. I sorta toyed with putting him in the original post, but I didn't wanna get jumped on.

But he surely wasn't a neocon. And he knew diplomacy. And iirc was in favor of health care.

[Turbineguy]

7. My first impulse

was to get a chuckle, but seriously? Yes.

[JI7]

14. he wasn't liberal, it was the Democratic Congress which forced him

to pass many of the liberal things that passed during his time in office. he was also the one who used the racist "southern strategy" to win votes.

he isn't as bad as many of the current ones, but he would still have been a Republican.

[rniel]

8. Me thinks Teddy Roosevelt

Because he was one that broke up the monopolies, and fought for a minimum wage. Pretty much the opposite of todays republican party

[Nay]

9. Goldwater. He didn't like what the repub party was becoming way

back then. Can you imagine what he'd think now??

[VOX]

11. True! BG *hated* the religious right, for starters. n/t

[VOX]

10. You can start with that big-government, bleeding heart liberal, Lincoln...

Old Abe actually gave a damn about holding his country together, to the extent that he made war on the states that wanted to leave the union.

And how about the Emancipation Proclamation? There are those who say that everything Lincoln did was calculated for effect (noting how he didn't free any slaves in border states that hadn't seceded: Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware, Maryland, etc.) Phooey on that, Abe was a genius.

And Abe would be a Democrat through and through today. :thumbsup:

[Rocknrule]

12. All the good ones

[cali]

13. I can think of three Vermont Senators

Senatior Flanders- famed for being instrumental in taking down Joe McCarthy, Senator Stafford, an avid environmentalist, and Senator Aiken, who said about Vietnam, "Let's declare victory, and get the hell out."

[Sapere aude]

15. I was reading about the political battles behind the B-1B bomber and

Eisenhower was against having a military that was superior to Russia. He believed we needed just enough to balance the power so that neither would go to war and then he wanted to reduce weapons on both sides. He had to fight the military and congress who wanted to always build more and more weapons. This was also true for Kennedy and Carter. The idea was to have a sufficient military not to be a superior military power. That idea sounds like a weakness but the willingness to negotiate treaties is much harder than to keep spending for weapons.