Alfred Landon

[AwfulVision]

"As goes Maine, so goes the nation"

-a period magazine projecting a Landon landslide against FDR based on Landon's being ahead in polling in Maine.

"As goes Maine, so goes Vermont"

-The actual result.

[SSArcher11]

Electoral vote result for 1936 -

FDR 523 Landon 8

Even more lopsided than 1984.

[MassLiberal1]

Alf Landon, a real Republican.

[kimmy2727]

Me Too!!!

[Dotego]

he is related to me

[kenneth11361]

Just read his bio on wikipedia. After winning the nomination, this idiot did not campaign for 2 months. John McCain did a better job. What is it with many GOP candidates. They want to get the nomination yet don't seem to want the job. Bush I, Bob Dole and McCain. Repubs deserve better.

[daniel9991237]

He got creamed on election day 1936. He lost every state accept Maine and Vermont, the biggest loss for any Republican nominee for President.

[tefisher1984]

Happy 121st birthday Alf Landon!

[pzgratzinger]

Alf Landon was almost as far left as Roosevelt himself. Not a big loss with him not becoming president.

[erikfloan]

Not that far left. More liberal on social issues than Goldwater & Co, but a supporter of economical conservatism, i.e. non-intervention etc.

[TylerHinds]

he was way more right wing, not as right wing as Wilkie or Hoover, but more than Dewey.

[docmagnus]

"Not as right wing as Willkie or Hoover"????? I think you should go read up on those two! Hoover was what we'd call today a "moderate" Republican, and Willkie was a left wing, "Establishment" Republican, a la Nelson Rockefeller.

[TylerHinds]

I was saying he was way more right wing than Roosevelt but not as right wing as hoover or wilkie and that my friend is true. Dont question my knowledge of history it is one of the only things in this world that I care about. A far right conservative would have been annihilated by Roosevelt at the polls. My views are very close to Hoovers and as for Wilkie I admire his that he took more votes from Roosevelt than any of the other Republicans. Dont tell me to open a history book you don't know me.

[docmagnus]

You are wrong. I would also suggest, in addition to opening a history book, that you invest some time in the study of grammar. Wendell Willkie was a liberal Dem who switched parties. Hoover and Landon were both liberal Republicans. Calvin Coolidge (a conservative) once remarked that as Commerce Secretary, Hoover was always ready to dispense advice...BAD advice! Also, one member of the FDR gang admitted that the New Deal was basically an expanded version of Hoover's policies.

[TylerHinds]

Furthermore if you would use a political compass, figures out the time would measure out like this. Huey Long was far left, Roosevelt was left, Dewey was left of center, Landon was a moderate, Wilkie was a barely right of center, Hoover was right wing, Robert Taft was far right.

[docmagnus]

After the 1940 election, Willkie showed an interest in joining the new Liberal Party in New York. Do right wingers flirt with joining something called the "Liberal Party"? No. Willkie was a liberal when he supported FDR in 1932 and 1936, and when he himself ran for president in 1940. Also, right wingers support less government. Hoover increased government in an ill-fated effort to combat the Depression. Was Hoover right wing? No.

[TylerHinds]

You are obviously a libertarian not a Republican so I don't want to argue.

[docmagnus]

Not a libertarian, but also not a Republican, per se. What does "Republican" even mean? The party is opposed to monarchism? For that matter, are Democrats opposed to absolutism? Party labels mean little. The philosophy of government is the key factor for me. I am conservative.

[MRY6]

He was more of a Republican than any one today. Remember, the GOP was a centrist party in the past, with moderates and liberals a republican staple since Lincoln. These people, not the conservatives, were the Real Republicans. Think Lincoln, Teddy, Ike just naming the presidents. Not to mention the long history of progressive republicans.

[docmagnus]

Oh, I agree that he was "more of a Republican than anyone today." But that is quite irrelevant. Lincoln, TR, and the "progressive" Republicans had as little respect for the Constitution back then as liberal Democrats do today. Please reread the penultimate sentence in my previous post. Party designations are meaningless.

[mbmorrison]

I wouldn't mind selling my vote for bread as long as it was Honey Oat and I got a lot of it.