70 Years of ReTHUGlican Lying - isn't that enough, America?
Eisenhower (basically a good man) rode McCarthy's lies to become President.
Nixon flat out lied to become President. (Not just Watergate, he lied about deescalating Vietnam).
Ford was an unelected patsy who pardoned Nixon for his lies.
Raygun too lied to become President. (Made a pact with Iranian hardliners to hold the hostages a few extra months.)
H.W. Bush lied (surprise!) about not raising taxes to become President (and lost a 2cd term because of those lies).
Cheney (the REAL power behind the throne) took advantage of the lies about the election in Florida, and the lie he was only the VP. Bush 2 was just plain dumb, another patsy for the sharks in his party.
TFG...well we all know how those lies in 2016 about Hillary, and all the other 23 brazillion fibs played out.
(In fairness here is the comparison of the Democratic Presidents over the same period:
Yes, Democrats have told a few small whoppers *in comparison* over those years, but they all paid the price politically.
Johnson's lies about Tonkin Gulf eventually lost him the office.
Ted's lies about Chappaquiddick prevented him from taking the office.
Bill's lies about Monica (he did come clean in the end and apologized - a first) gave Newt Raw meat to chew and spew about.
Carter and Obama meh.
I can't think of any major gaffs Jimmy made, perhaps just too nice of a guy to survive in a cutthroat environment.
Maybe Obama broke a few campaign promises that got him in trouble with the Left side of Our Tent, that is debatable.
(Personally, as a progressive Union supporter I was hurt when he never did anything about Union election rights, but otherwise I never stopped vocally - and financially - supporting President Obama.)
Biden is currently getting railroaded by the 1% controlled M$M, but what else is new.)
There it is. Now answer me this: Who let the Dogs out????? It weren't the Dems that is for sure.
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Joseph McCarthy’s detractors used to enjoy noting the irony that one of the worst senators in American history had replaced one of the best. In a year of political upsets, McCarthy’s defeat of “Young Bob” La Follette in the 1946 Wisconsin Republican Primary had been the biggest surprise of them all. La Follette was heir to Wisconsin’s famous political dynasty and one of the most distinguished senators of his or any other time. If Young Bob could be beaten, reporters said, anyone could be beaten. Before Wheeling, Joe McCarthy was still known primarily as the man who had defeated “Young Bob” La Follette.
But the irony ran deeper than a single senatorial succession in the heart of Midwestern progressivism. For it was La Follette, not McCarthy, who had made the “Red Menace” the central issue of the 1946 campaign, a fact that haunted Young Bob to the end of his days. According to close associates, La Follette had McCarthy on his mind when he committed suicide in 1953. The shared anti-communism between two men otherwise radically dissimilar is a significant story in its own right, for it sheds new light on an old problem in American historiography—the relationship between Progressivism and McCarthyism.
Robert La Follette, Jr.—everyone called him Young Bob—was the son of Wisconsin’s legendary progressive governor and senator, Fighting Bob La Follette. When Fighting Bob died in 1925, Young Bob succeeded him, becoming the youngest senator since Henry Clay. He rose to national prominence during the Great Depression upon the strength of his economic recovery programs and his defense of labor rights and civil liberties. Before foreign policy drove them apart, La Follette was one of FDR’s favorite senators. Rexford Tugwell, a charter member of FDR’s Brain Trust, once recalled, “If Franklin had not been a Roosevelt, I am quite certain he would have liked to be a La Follette.” Over the years, Roosevelt talked up Young Bob as a possible successor in the White House, as a vice-presidential running mate, as a secretary of state, and as a Supreme Court justice. Not bad, considering the fact that La Follette wasn’t even a Democrat or, when you think of him as a Supreme Court possibility, a lawyer.
Despite his maverick ways, Young Bob was one of the Senate’s most esteemed members—admired by colleagues and reporters alike. One notable admirer was reporter-turned-novelist Allen Drury, who in his classic Washington novel, Advise and Consent, partly modeled after La Follette one of the main characters, the tragic Brigham Anderson.
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