Thomas Edmund Dewey

[DanMcCollum]

Okay, this needs a response. First, and foremost, Dewey was in no way close to the Rockefeller family, in fact he generally refused to support Nelson Rockefeller throughout the later's reign as the leader of the Liberal Republicans.

Second, the Neo-cons did not emerge until the 1970s, many of which were former liberals, as a response to the New Left of the 1960s.

Seriously, get your history straight, please, if you are going to comment on it, please.

[papawx3]

Dewey was a bought & paid for Rockefeller whore. He was {along with Wilkie}, one of the first phoney neo-con republicans, that today was infected our nation like a plauge. even then the money power was busy at work. They bought the democrat party back in Wilson's administration, and bought the republican party twenty solme years later. Here is your proof. Goldwater was the last true republican to win the nomination, and it has been all down hill since.

[MickeyMorandini1]

Somehow I see Mitt Romney standing there

elitist republican liberal coward

[BenAliGtor]

If Dewey were running today, the wingnuts would lambast him as a "RINO".

[TylerHinds]

This was a great man! I have a book about him and he is an interesting fellow.

[Kippe1702]

Roosevelt's daughter once said that "Dewey was the little man on the top of the wedding cake." XD

[jbond5150]

@Kippe1702  TR's daughter; Alice Roosevelt Longworth

[18Sheababy]

We all love Harry Truman! He was down to earth kind of person. He loved his family and this country!

[spasski1000]

This guy was a phony. During the election year of '48 he didn't even campaign or meet the people of the USA. He was an elitist who would have allowed big business to run the country.

[geekjazzrock]

His son is a friend of mine, classy gentleman!

[marcostar57]

Duh... I know Dewey is long dead...GOP nomine in '44 and '48. YOU said he "is weak on terrorism" using a present-tense verb which makes little sense. I was being sarcastic.

[marcostar57]

Dewey was a rational, logical Republican -- he wouldn't even recognize his party today now that it's been overrun by kooks, wackos & religious nuts.

[MRY6]

He's closer to a real republican, which means not conservative. Dewey was a liberal center-left republican.

[eldiceuf]

Based off hours of research I did, the fate of the GOP, of what we see today, is because of the Southern pro-segregation states left the Democrat party after Truman supported Civil Rights.  "Moderate Republicans" such as Dewey and Rockefeller supported Truman and New Deal reform. Basically all the racists and bible thumpers (who were the joke of the Democrat Party) became the laughing stock we see in the Republican Party and the "Right Wing" today. Pathetic...isn't it.

[Speegs23]

@eldiceuf Hours of research you say? What poor research, up until the 1968 election there was scarcely a discernible difference between the two parties, in fact one could argue Nixon was the Keynesian and JFK supply-side as he cut the highest tax bracket down to 23%, something not replicated until Reagan.

The so called silent majority saw the realignment and flight of every manifestation of conservative/ libertarian from the Democratic party thanks to welfare state expansion by FDR and LBJ.

[mindspring57]

@Speegs23 The Republicans' economic policy of the 1920's crashed the country into a wall known as the Great Depression, and except for Eisenhower (who could have won in any party), they could not thereafter elect anyone to the Presidency. But alas, the Republicans saw their chance. Using code words like "law and order," they opposed the Civil Rights Act, and built a base in the South, and appealed to gullible Fundamentalists who only needed to be assured that the Repubs had "accepted Jesus."

[mindspring57]

@Speegs23 (continued) the Republicans were also able to capitalize on the fact that liberal Democrats turned radical by abandoning traditional moral principles.

[marcostar57]

Huh... is Dewey still alive...??

[canmexus1]

by marriage via my step-grandpa, Thomas Dewey was a cousin.

[toodarkmark]

Communism wasn't a problem then, it was just a tactic to create a fearful enemy to gather all the brainwashed angry bitter masses into being fearful and maintaining power for a certain elite.

Not unlike communism, terrorism is mostly hogwash in the US. Im from NYC and I saw the towers fall, and then I saw America fall because what the Bush Admin did to our great country, using the fear to get "bitter gun owners" to vote for them. Where did it get is? In the gutter. Than God for Obama.

Mc

[nukenate]

Dewey is cool.

YAY!

[TylerHinds]

I take back what I said about Truman. I am sorry for my cowardice I was giving into what my friend was saying when I typed that comment. Truman was right when he fired MacArthur, his containment policy worked and I like him. I would have voted for him even though I am Republican.

[TylerHinds]

The three things that Truman did that I agree with the most are desegregating the armed forces, dropping the atomic bomb, and instituting the Marshall plan. That said I don't think Truman was a good president, he was weak on Communism, bad for the economy, and very corrupt. I would have voted for Dewey.

[TylerHinds]

Dewey Rocks.

[AWE319]

A Dewy republican is in fact excactly what we need right now. not a left Wing Democrat or a right wing loon.

[Kent776Wx3]

Thank god Truman won, lol

[Mprator]

Wrong. Truman sucks, Go Dewey!

[NotoriousPimp24]

Word up. Truman hired communists!

[erikfloan]

The way he talks about his nasty thoughts makes him sound like a classical "evil guy" from a movie XD

[IAMASTRONGMAN]

I don't like Dewey, but he'd be a good President to alternate history with.

[urbild]

Oooh, you weally out-smarted those wascally communist!

[kolaboy]

Dewey would be a fine president, and he had a much better singing voice than Truman.

[bitterchew]

why is he wearing that big dress

[JohnKelly32102]

@bitterchew It is red white and blue and white stars if you look real hard.

[mindspring57]

@JohnKelly32102 It is called bunting.

[JubalCalif]

@bitterchew

Maybe he was trying to outdo J Edgar Hoover with a more becoming frock!

[n4napalm]

rigging occurs in US elections. u can see almost all elections, 2000, 2004, 1948...need to say more? 1876, 1888....what more? what about 1824 election?

[jamessedlock]

dewey might just have been the president that could have prevented the monstrously destructive and deadly "cold war" from killing and immiserating millions in Korea, southeast Asia, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq. Yeah, thanks a lot, Harry, for the Red Scare, for American Empire, for Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, all fear-obsesses war-mongering assholes!

[FlatulenceFox]

I disagree with your re-writing of history. And I do agree with Winston Churchill that Truman saved civilization.

[McLarenMercedes]

Amen. Respect to both Truman and Churchill.

[bol1923]

He doesn't come across well on video, but I still think his presidency would have been more productive than Truman's second term. Truman's best work (the Marshall Plan) was done by 1948, and Dewey would have carried out pretty much the same policies without the craziness of McCarthyism, since McCarthy would have been less aggressive with a Republican in the White House.

[bittergunowner12]

There probably wouldn't have been any communists in a Dewey Administration, they've never liked Republicans.

McCarthyism happened for a reason.

[billyguns2]

For once the American people saw through a phony and elected the right man, Harry S Truman.

[wollam11]

paranoid much, dewey?