Embarrassed Republicans Admit They've Been Thinking Of Eisenhower Whole Time

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Embarrassed Republicans Admit They've Been Thinking Of Eisenhower Whole Time They've Been Praising Reagan

[minionofmidas]

You provide me with a new signature image. And I had only just changed it.

[King]

The Onion is on a strange all-politics roll today:

History Teacher Has Unusual Favorite President (Calvin Coolidge)

There's Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself, And Also Me, The Ghost Of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

[Napoleon]

Did anyone see Rachel Maddow;s show where she went over Eisenhower's platform and compared it to the modern day teabagging Republicans? Absolutely hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ButHdBiUJYk

[Mr. Taft Republican]

Gotta admit, the Onion is informative sometimes. I mean, they still go about it like total dicks, but informative.

[tpfkaw]

That's like, not amusing at all.

[Marokai Backbeat]

I always love going back and browsing the Onion for new stuff every couple of months:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/future-us-history-students-its-pretty-embarrassing,19099/

[courts]

That's like, not amusing at all.

I can't remember the last time the Onion was actually funny.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I always love going back and browsing the Onion for new stuff every couple of months:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/future-us-history-students-its-pretty-embarrassing,19099/

That one actually makes me scared for the future.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Did anyone see Rachel Maddow;s show where she went over Eisenhower's platform and compared it to the modern day teabagging Republicans? Absolutely hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ButHdBiUJYk

I love that ... Eisenhower would never get anywhere in this GOP today.

I love the joke, "the political centre of the country has shifted to the right, and the GOP has shifted into a mental hospital"

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I thought this was going to be about Operation Wetback.

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Did anyone see Rachel Maddow;s show where she went over Eisenhower's platform and compared it to the modern day teabagging Republicans? Absolutely hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ButHdBiUJYk

I love that ... Eisenhower would never get anywhere in this GOP today.

I love the joke, "the political centre of the country has shifted to the right, and the GOP has shifted into a mental hospital"

Eisenhower complained about the military-industrial complex, making him too liberal to get the Democratic nomination today.

[Napoleon]

Did anyone see Rachel Maddow;s show where she went over Eisenhower's platform and compared it to the modern day teabagging Republicans? Absolutely hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ButHdBiUJYk

I love that ... Eisenhower would never get anywhere in this GOP today.

I love the joke, "the political centre of the country has shifted to the right, and the GOP has shifted into a mental hospital"

Eisenhower complained about the military-industrial complex, making him too liberal to get the Democratic nomination today.

Obama and Clinton are probably both to his right, thinking about it.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Did anyone see Rachel Maddow;s show where she went over Eisenhower's platform and compared it to the modern day teabagging Republicans? Absolutely hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ButHdBiUJYk

I love that ... Eisenhower would never get anywhere in this GOP today.

I love the joke, "the political centre of the country has shifted to the right, and the GOP has shifted into a mental hospital"

Eisenhower complained about the military-industrial complex, making him too liberal to get the Democratic nomination today.

Very true

[King]

Clearly Dwight Eisenhower was a Soviet spy.

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Some reasons why they don't like Ike.

1. He railed against the military-industrial complex
2. He said that only crazy Texas oilmen would want to mess with Social Security
3. FDR was his boss
4. He ended the Korean war
5. He sent troops to allow those darkies into Little Rock schools
6. He appointed Earl Warren as Chief Justice
7. He spent a lot of money on socialist projects like the freeway system and NASA
8. Kept the top income tax bracket at 90+%
9. France and the UK wanted to go to war with Egypt. He said no.
10. He admitted Hawaii as a state because he knew that some Kenyan would claim to be born there in 2 years

[King]

Some reasons why they don't like Ike.

1. He railed against the military-industrial complex
2. He said that only crazy Texas oilmen would want to mess with Social Security
3. FDR was his boss
4. He ended the Korean war
5. He sent troops to allow those darkies into Little Rock schools
6. He appointed Earl Warren as Chief Justice
7. He spent a lot of money on socialist projects like the freeway system and NASA
8. Kept the top income tax bracket at 90+%
9. France and the UK wanted to go to war with Egypt. He said no.
10. He admitted Hawaii as a state because he knew that some Kenyan would claim to be born there in 2 years

I like Barry Goldwater's take on GOPstalgia: "Do not associate my name with anything you do. You are extremists, and you've hurt the Republican party much more than the Democrats have."

[Iosif]

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Hehehe

[Redalgo]

Some reasons why they don't like Ike.

1. He railed against the military-industrial complex
2. He said that only crazy Texas oilmen would want to mess with Social Security
3. FDR was his boss
4. He ended the Korean war
5. He sent troops to allow those darkies into Little Rock schools
6. He appointed Earl Warren as Chief Justice
7. He spent a lot of money on socialist projects like the freeway system and NASA
8. Kept the top income tax bracket at 90+%
9. France and the UK wanted to go to war with Egypt. He said no.
10. He admitted Hawaii as a state because he knew that some Kenyan would claim to be born there in 2 years

Clearly Dwight Eisenhower was a Soviet spy.

11. He conspired with reds to crush a stalwart of Western capitalism, received the Order of Victory.
12. He was courted by the Democratic Party to run for President in 1948.
13. He refused to run for President in 1948 as the Republican candidate.

[Brittain33]

I always love going back and browsing the Onion for new stuff every couple of months:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/future-us-history-students-its-pretty-embarrassing,19099/

That one actually makes me scared for the future.

Boo.

Really, it'll be fine. My partner's Catholic, he has lots of traditionally married cousins, the fact he married a Jewish man in a civil ceremony hasn't brought the Catholic world to an end. The nature of the priesthood moving forward should be your #1 concern. I don't see how the church survives without married priests in the long term.

[Mechaman]

3. FDR was his boss

And from the looks of this Ike liked FDR, at least enough to sit next to him on a plane.

Also,



If this doesn't remind you of that one scene in (insert action movie here) where the big bad boss man is like "kill them" and the uber henchman gives a creepy nod of approval then I don't know what can.
Ike didn't just work for FDR, he was his homeboy.

[angus]

Embarrassed Republicans Admit They've Been Thinking Of Eisenhower Whole Time They've Been Praising Reagan

The funniest part is that "Reince Priebus" isn't satire.  That's actually the name of the RNC chairman.

I guess it could be worse.  At least the GOP didn't elect Hugh Jass or Mike Ockhurtz.

[opebo]

And from the looks of this Ike liked FDR, at least enough to sit next to him on a plane.

Ike didn't just work for FDR, he was his homeboy.

In point of fact FDR was a fine conservative or 'liberal' in the accurate sense, and all the nincompoops who worship Ayn Rand and join Tea Parties should be worshiping him for saving their precious system of exploitation.

[LBJ Revivalist]

And from the looks of this Ike liked FDR, at least enough to sit next to him on a plane.

Ike didn't just work for FDR, he was his homeboy.

In point of fact FDR was a fine conservative or 'liberal' in the accurate sense, and all the nincompoops who worship Ayn Rand and join Tea Parties should be worshiping him for saving their precious system of exploitation.

Everything he built is being destroyed.
WE'RE GOING BACK TO 1880!

[Redalgo]

And from the looks of this Ike liked FDR, at least enough to sit next to him on a plane.

Ike didn't just work for FDR, he was his homeboy.

In point of fact FDR was a fine conservative or 'liberal' in the accurate sense, and all the nincompoops who worship Ayn Rand and join Tea Parties should be worshiping him for saving their precious system of exploitation.

Everything he built is being destroyed.
WE'RE GOING BACK TO 1880!

From a Marxisant perspective, FDR can be condemned for one of two central reasons. Either he was a stooge for capitalists who tricked the workers into believing their interests can vie with those of elites who possess the means of production - thus mitigating the threat of workers realizing their plight and fighting for socialism - or he was genuinely leftist but naive to think he could defeat capitalist interests without fully destroying the system that empowers them. Those who advocate far right policies are a long-term threat to capitalism's survival whereas "third way," social liberal, and social democratic types are desirable because they can fool the proletariat into thinking capitalism is beneficial for workers. In this sense, ironically, FDR and DDE were better guardians of the system than Tea Partiers will ever be.

Or did I read into what Opebo was getting at in the wrong way?