1956 - Republican Flip Flopping

[baraxor]

Stevenson's ad attacks GOP confusion, but doesn't say what his own positions are.

Thanks for playing.

[Hello59239]

Is this the first negative ad ever?

I love how the early political ads seem to attract Preschoolers.

I know a way the GOP could attract young voters: "Michelle Obama wants to take away your candy!!!! Vote GOP!!!" That would be funny.

[Hawkeye752]

I recall the music as the opening them to BOZO THE CLOWN cartoons....appropo given the circus background.

[Willredd94]

This is from 1952, not '56. Eisenhower ended Korea in 1953

[ctomarctus]

This is 1952. What I mean is, this AD is from 1952.

[GatewayGhettoProd]

Flintstone! You're fiiiiiired!!!

[Suprkit]

This ad was talking about staying in Korea after the war. Just because the war was over doesn't mean the troops come home all at once. My granfather went back in '54-'55.

[harfarhs]

@Suprkit - that's just the point. The ad dates not from 1956 but from 1952, when the war was still on. There was no chance of restarting hostilities after peace came in 1953, for the war was incredibly unpopular at home (much as would happen with Vietnam later on).

[Suprkit]

@harfarhs It was unpopular but sill unstable, such as it still is today.

[b5kalad]

Get rid of the United Nations.

[1prouddemocrat]

This ad was from 1952. The War in Korea was still going on at this time.

[b5kalad]

Good one.

[SamPD2]

@1prouddemocrat Technically, it still is. Even though it goes without saying unoffically the war is over, a peace treaty was never signed.

[scooticus]

Oh, those wacky republicans....

[jpheitman]

@scooticus It's funny, 'cause they won that round. :P

[Tokopol]

@jpheitman And then plunged the country into a recession shortly afterward.

[jpheitman]

@Tokopol Right, right, that was all the Republican's fault...

[Tokopol]

@jpheitman They controlled all fiscal policy. If it wasn't Republicans, who was it? Communists infiltrating our bodily fluids? Martians? The French?

[sciontist]

@Tokopol The Spanish Inquisition?



[whoo689]

Ike Eisenhower was a flip-flopper?? I thought he was the kind who would stick to his positions. And didn't Eisenhower campaign heavily in 1952 on getting out of Korea? And why the hell did the guy even ask about Korea in a 1956 ad?? The war was over!

[HoGraz]

@whoo689 I don't think he was but Adlai Stevenson's ads were very vicious towards Eisenhower. It is funny though both parties "Flip Flop" so much now. Kerry was the "Flip Flop" cause he was the bad guy when BUSH was like having Manson run the country. Bush also flip flopped on his campaign that he was not going to Nation Build. Lockhead was one of his donors. He was never TRULY flip flopping. He was just being a typical RepubLIE-CON.