Thomas Edmund Dewey

Thomas Edmund Dewey - Running for President of the United States - 1948

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• President
• United
• States
• 1948

[MRY6]

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

[bitterchew]

why is he wearing that big dress

[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.

[JubalCalif]

@bitterchew

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

[mindspring57]

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

[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]

@JohnKelly32102 It is called bunting.

[JohnKelly32102]

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

[MickeyMorandini1]

Somehow I see Mitt Romney standing there

elitist republican liberal coward

[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.

[jbond5150]

@Kippe1702 TR's daughter; Alice Roosevelt Longworth