RINO Tom
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« on: July 25, 2016, 09:50:23 AM » |
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I encourage all who have heard the myth that Eisenhower *picked* the GOP at the last minute to read up on his life. He was courted by the Democrats for two reasons and two reasons alone:
1) As a high-ranking American general, he largely kept his political views out of the spotlight.
2) He was a very good personal friend to Harry Truman.
In the book The Presidents' Club, Eisenhower is quoted as saying he was a staunch Republican his entire life, and it actually strained his friendship with Truman when he found out (one quote on Truman was something to the tune of Ike disgustingly recalling that Truman "couldn't imagine anyone worth a damn wouldn't be a Democrat."), and Ike even went so far as to personally tell him that he had pretty enthusiastically voted against his friend in favor of Dewey.
Eisenhower was a pragmatist first and foremost, but it's pretty obvious the more and more you dig into his life that he had the philosophical outlook of a conservative Republican.
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