Opinion of Nelson Rockefeller

[Phony Moderate]

Probably nastier than today's average Tea Party member of Congress.

[RFayette]

Terrible, terrible, terrible.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Wasn't he a Niemeyerite in his plans for Albany? HP

[SWE]

Cartoonishly evil

[P123]

Rockefeller was literally the worst. I love the "he's a FF because he was a LIBERAL REPUBLICAN" logic.

The guy should be hated across the spectrum, literal filth. Massively corrupt for one.

[Vosem]

We, as a modern American political spectrum, can agree that this guy was horrible and it's a good thing we've left his sort back in the past.

[RINO Tom]

We, as a modern American political spectrum, can agree that this guy was horrible and it's a good thing we've left his sort back in the past.

Speak for yourself.  I'll take a pro-civil rights Rockefeller over the hick trash that gets to define "conservative" today...

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

We, as a modern American political spectrum, can agree that this guy was horrible and it's a good thing we've left his sort back in the past.

Speak for yourself.  I'll take a pro-civil rights Rockefeller over the hick trash that gets to define "conservative" today...

Talk about damning with faintest praise.

[All Along The Watchtower]

hick trash

lmao

[RogueBeaver]

Mega-HP. Thankfully, his kind are in the party where they belong.

[RINO Tom]

Mega-HP. Thankfully, his kind are in the party where they belong.

The GOP?  I agree, bro.

[RINO Tom]

hick trash

lmao

Call it what you will, I really don't care.  Self-described "populists" belittle and demean normal Republicans 24/7.  If dishing it back makes me an elitist or an idiot or oblivious or mean or whatever in some's eyes, I'll deal with that.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

hick trash

lmao

Call it what you will, I really don't care.  Self-described "populists" belittle and demean normal Republicans 24/7.  If dishing it back makes me an elitist or an idiot or oblivious or mean or whatever in some's eyes, I'll deal with that.

But those people are the 'normal' Republicans.

[RINO Tom]

hick trash

lmao

Call it what you will, I really don't care.  Self-described "populists" belittle and demean normal Republicans 24/7.  If dishing it back makes me an elitist or an idiot or oblivious or mean or whatever in some's eyes, I'll deal with that.

But those people are the 'normal' Republicans.

Says who?  Them?  Liberals who have a vested interest in making the GOP look as bad as possible?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

To offend the right:
-He appeased labor unions
-Legalized abortion in New York State
-Tried to botch his own party's nominee
-Seemed to favor a "big government" (term used slightly tongue-in-cheek) approach to every social and economic problem
-Increased the New Yorker's tax burden
-Contributed to New York's later debt crisis
-Helped promote Henry Kissinger to national significance

To offend the left:
-The Rockefeller Drug Laws
-Seems to have attempted to pave New York in highways, though this is based on other posts in this thread and previous ones
-Presided over the last execution in the Northeast prior ot Furman v. Georgia
-Aided in deaths from the Attica Prison Riot
-Helped promote Henry Kissinger to national significance

I'm sure there's more.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

hick trash

lmao

Call it what you will, I really don't care.  Self-described "populists" belittle and demean normal Republicans 24/7.  If dishing it back makes me an elitist or an idiot or oblivious or mean or whatever in some's eyes, I'll deal with that.

But those people are the 'normal' Republicans.

Says who?  Them?  Liberals who have a vested interest in making the GOP look as bad as possible?

I'd rather be in a party of 'hicks' than Rockefellers.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Hmm...where to begin?

Positive:
-Fought for civil rights
-Supported most of the New Deal and Great Society
-Pro-law and order
-Rockefeller drug laws
-Squashed the Attica prison riots

Negative:
-Legalized abortion statewide
-Used eminent domain to evict Radio Row & build WTC
-Raised taxes

Yeah, I'd say a pretty big FF on balance.  That said, he was far from perfect (as the negative section demonstrates)

his kind are not in the party where they belong.

Fixed.

[TDAS04]

Hmm...where to begin?

Positive:
-Fought for civil rights
-Supported most of the New Deal and Great Society
-Pro-law and order
-Rockefeller drug laws
-Squashed the Attica prison riots

You think a person should spend a minimum of 15 years in prison for possessing four ounces of pot?

[P123]

hick trash

lmao

Call it what you will, I really don't care.  Self-described "populists" belittle and demean normal Republicans 24/7.  If dishing it back makes me an elitist or an idiot or oblivious or mean or whatever in some's eyes, I'll deal with that.

But those people are the 'normal' Republicans.

Says who?  Them?  Liberals who have a vested interest in making the GOP look as bad as possible?

The GOP electorate.

[The Dowager Mod]

The guy went out like a champ though. lol

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

The guy went out like a champ though. lol

You may say he did accomplish something badass at the end.

[RINO Tom]

We, as a modern American political spectrum, can agree that this guy was horrible and it's a good thing we've left his sort back in the past.

Speak for yourself.  I'll take a pro-civil rights Rockefeller over the hick trash that gets to define "conservative" today...

It's very unlikely that you're from a social strata that Rockefeller wouldn't have regarded as the equivalent of "hick trash," although that's no guarantee that he would not have taken the first possible opportunity to sleep with your wife...

Mega-HP. Thankfully, his kind are in the party where they belong.

This is an odd statement to make only four years after Mitt Romney won the nomination of a Republican Party chaired by Reince Priebus. As much as we talk about how the Republican Party was reborn in the image of Goldwater's conservatism, Ronald Reagan is the only nominee since 1964 who hasn't had more in common with descendants of the Rockefeller faction.

LOL, fair enough on both.  I guess I'd rather be constantly complaining about elitism in my party than the lack of it.  I don't expect this to carry much weight, but if anyone here knew me, they'd know that something is seriously wrong with the GOP if I'm complaining that it's not "elitist" enough (and I pretty much mean unapologetically anti-intellectual).