If Dwight Eisenhower came back from the dead...

[Rockefeller GOP]

He'd be a moderate Democrat.

No, he wouldn't.  He was a moderate Republican until the day he died, and his politics aren't remarkably different in tone than HW.  He'd be a moderate Republican now.

[Rockefeller GOP]

He'd be a moderate Democrat.

No, he wouldn't.  He was a moderate Republican until the day he died, and his politics aren't remarkably different in tone than HW.  He'd be a moderate Republican now.

Thinking that HW has any place in the Republican party now, outside of a relic, is kind of cute .

Uh, he's not dead and hasn't changed to a "moderate Democrat," has he?

This forum SEVERELY overrates how many people would switch parties in today's environment.

[Rockefeller GOP]

He'd be a moderate Democrat.

No, he wouldn't.  He was a moderate Republican until the day he died, and his politics aren't remarkably different in tone than HW.  He'd be a moderate Republican now.

Thinking that HW has any place in the Republican party now, outside of a relic, is kind of cute .

Uh, he's not dead and hasn't changed to a "moderate Democrat," has he?

This forum SEVERELY overrates how many people would switch parties in today's environment.

Could he win a GOP primary on the same platform he ran on in 1988 or 1992?

No, absolutely not.  But that's different than saying he'd be a Democrat.  He is, in today's world, a moderate Republican, just as I believe Ike would be.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Dwight Eisenhower was a Republican entirely by circumstance. He was not a loyal man of the party by any means. I suspect, by the tone of the party now, he'd probably be a moderate Democrat.

RINO Tom posted a quote from a book one time totally shattering this myth.  Ike was a Republican from birth, and it actually strained his otherwise close friendship with Harry Truman.