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« on: September 05, 2011, 08:22:43 AM »
Discuss.
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« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2011, 08:28:58 AM »
Considering that "right-wing" only makes sense to me in an economic sense, it has to be Nixon.
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« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2011, 08:31:24 AM »
Nixon.
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« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2011, 08:50:49 AM »
W
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« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2011, 09:03:54 AM »


W is the most right-wing social president we've ever had so far. Not in the fiscal sense though.


For the most least right wing Republican president, Richard Nixon. Affirmative action, price controls, creation of the EPA, China, and busing. Teddy Roosevelt is the most all time historical.
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« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2011, 09:27:28 AM »
Nixon.
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« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2011, 09:28:58 AM »
Eisenhower, because political landscape was far diffrent than current one.

Otherwise, in modern understanding, Nixon.
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« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2011, 10:14:36 AM »
Ford, though Nixon was a close second.
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« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2011, 10:16:54 AM »
Quote from: Northeast Assembler  RFK on September 05, 2011, 09:03:54 AM


W is the most right-wing social president we've ever had so far. Not in the fiscal sense though.


For the most least right wing Republican president, Richard Nixon. Affirmative action, price controls, creation of the EPA, China, and busing. Teddy Roosevelt is the most all time historical.
Oh yes, W is the most Social Conservative--No Child Left Behind, Stem Cell Research, Patriot Act, his immigration reform attempt, and the proscription drug benefit...W was rather moderate in all sense of the term.
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« Reply #9 on: September 05, 2011, 11:06:40 AM »
Ike and Nixon.
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« Reply #10 on: September 05, 2011, 11:24:59 AM »
Quote from: Imperial Speaker Sanchez on September 05, 2011, 10:16:54 AM
Quote from: Northeast Assembler  RFK on September 05, 2011, 09:03:54 AM


W is the most right-wing social president we've ever had so far. Not in the fiscal sense though.


For the most least right wing Republican president, Richard Nixon. Affirmative action, price controls, creation of the EPA, China, and busing. Teddy Roosevelt is the most all time historical.
Oh yes, W is the most Social Conservative--No Child Left Behind, Stem Cell Research, Patriot Act, his immigration reform attempt, and the proscription drug benefit...W was rather moderate in all sense of the term.

I didn't say everything Bush did was social conservative. And the Patriot Act is neither a issue of left or right but a issue of authoritarian and libertarian. NCLB was bipartisan that gets hate from both sides of the issue.
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« Reply #11 on: September 05, 2011, 11:38:14 AM »
In their rhetoric, Eisenhower followed by Ford. As for actual governance, Nixon.
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« Reply #12 on: September 05, 2011, 12:29:31 PM »
« Edited: September 05, 2011, 01:20:35 PM by paul who is a ghost »
Quote from: Imperial Speaker Sanchez on September 05, 2011, 10:16:54 AM
Quote from: Northeast Assembler  RFK on September 05, 2011, 09:03:54 AM


W is the most right-wing social president we've ever had so far. Not in the fiscal sense though.


For the most least right wing Republican president, Richard Nixon. Affirmative action, price controls, creation of the EPA, China, and busing. Teddy Roosevelt is the most all time historical.
Oh yes, W is the most Social Conservative--No Child Left Behind, Stem Cell Research, Patriot Act, his immigration reform attempt, and the proscription drug benefit...W was rather moderate in all sense of the term.

Don't forget "humanitarian" intervention overseas, the "rebates" (to people that didn't pay taxes), increase in subsidies or the bank and auto bail outs...
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« Reply #13 on: September 16, 2011, 05:51:06 AM »
Eisenhower is most alien to the modern American right.
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« Reply #14 on: September 16, 2011, 05:58:48 AM »
I'd say Eisenhower, followed by Nixon.
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« Reply #15 on: September 16, 2011, 06:22:28 AM »
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« Reply #16 on: September 16, 2011, 01:54:54 PM »
« Edited: September 16, 2011, 03:47:53 PM by Dean Barkley »


He did spend lot. In fact, Bush is a moderate conservative.
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« Reply #17 on: September 16, 2011, 02:17:37 PM »

This is what we call a totally failed definition of the left/right divide.
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« Reply #18 on: September 16, 2011, 03:22:26 PM »
Left and Right only make sense in terms of macro policy and in that sense...
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« Reply #19 on: September 16, 2011, 04:05:32 PM »
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« Reply #20 on: September 16, 2011, 04:23:47 PM »
Quote from: phk on September 16, 2011, 03:22:26 PM
Left and Right only make sense in terms of macro policy and in that sense...
Who? please don't leave us in suspense!
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« Reply #21 on: September 16, 2011, 09:14:59 PM »
Why do more people here think Nixon was more liberal than Gerald Ford? 
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« Reply #22 on: September 16, 2011, 09:59:51 PM »
To be more precise:

Domestic spending:

Right

1. Eisenhower
2. Ford
3. Reagan
4. Nixon
5. H.W. Bush
6. W. Bush

Left

Taxation:

Right

1. Reagan
2. W. Bush
3. Nixon
4. Eisenhower
5. Ford
6. H.W. Bush

Left

Foreign Policy:

Non-interventionist/Conservative

1. Eisenhower
2. Ford
3. Reagan
4. H.W. Bush
5. Nixon
6. W. Bush

Left-progressive/Internationalist/"Neoconservative"

Monetary policy:

"Hard money"

1. Reagan
2. H.W. Bush
3. Nixon
4. Ford
5. Eisenhower
6. W. Bush

Keynesian

Supreme Court appointments:

Right

1. W. Bush
2. Reagan
3. H.W. Bush
4. Nixon
5. Eisenhower
6. Ford

Left

Right (weighted 4:4:4:2:1 average in parentheses, where 1 is most right-wing and 6 is most left-wing)

Reagan (2.1)
Eisenhower (2.6)
Ford (3.3)
Nixon (3.9)
H.W. Bush (4.3)
W. Bush (4.6)

Left

Which is roughly correct.  (I probably should've added a centralization vs. decentralization axis, but I'm kinda getting bored with this post...)
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« Reply #23 on: September 16, 2011, 10:15:44 PM »
I enjoy how you think there's some sort of numbered metric to it.
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« Reply #24 on: September 16, 2011, 10:32:01 PM »
Obama is more conservative than Ike.
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