It’s time to brush out the Whig Party analogy again.<\/p>\n
Like, if the Republicans follow the path of Ted Cruz, they will go the way of the Whigs<\/a>.<\/p>\n Like, if the Republicans don’t go the way of Ted Cruz… they will go the way of the Whigs.<\/a><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Texas likes a fighter,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Patrick said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only been there 10 months, but he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s proven to be a fighter. If our party doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t lead as a bold conservative party, then we will disappear as a party.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n Or, we’d have some kind of splintering party working here.\u00c2\u00a0 Hillary Clinton versus Elizabeth Warren versus Jeb Bush versus Ted Cruz<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Something like the 1860 election battle between what was essentially two Democratic Parties and two Whig Parties.\u00c2\u00a0 And if we throw out the electoral vote, and the first to 26 percent of the vote wins! I see we’re getting the old diatribe on John F Kennedy: Conservative<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Being hawked all about… it’s the cover feature of the American Spectator.\u00c2\u00a0 The Reason interview here is a little too flip in by-passing the point that… er… sure, Senator Al Gore Senior belly-ached on Kennedy’s “Kenynesian Tax Cut” proposal, but it was still… taking the top marginal rate from a really high rate to a merely high rate<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And it faced opposition from a “balance the goddamned budget” right of — oh, Eisenhower and Byrd.\u00c2\u00a0 So what does this bring us to in terms of today’s policy fights?\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know.<\/p>\n No, I don’t much think the Tea Party — which I guess is how I’m obliged to define “Conservative” right about now — would much like Kennedy.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, he threw his lot in with Nixon against the Hollywood Left star Helen Gahagan Douglas in 1950<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 So we have some definition on what he considered too far out of bounds as he hewed to some conceived center, and ebbed and flowed with political currents.<\/p>\n The American Spectator image of Kennedy alongside Reagan is … rich.\u00c2\u00a0 At this time everyone was running around calling him a Marxist.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The entire city of Dallas<\/a>, actually.\u00c2\u00a0 And the same people insisting Kennedy as a conservative wouldn’t call Lyndon Johnson one, even as he pushed forward on Kennedy’s unfulfilled policy attempts.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose we can think that generally the story goes that Kennedy was saddled with a Democratic Platform further to his left than his … somewhat non existant and inconsequential Senate record.<\/p>\n Look!\u00c2\u00a0 A New Kennedy assassination debunking book<\/a>, which surely will silence everyone. It’s time to brush out the Whig Party analogy again. Like, if the Republicans follow the path of Ted Cruz, they will go the way of the Whigs. Like, if the Republicans don’t go the way of Ted Cruz… they will go the way of the Whigs. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Texas likes a fighter,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Patrick said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13260"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13336,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260\/revisions\/13336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOr… you know… whoever gets the most money into the right coffers will decide which Republican Party is victorious.\u00c2\u00a0 Jim Demint<\/a> and Club for Growth into Cruz and the Chamber of Commerce into Bush.\u00c2\u00a0 All this bickering back and forth becomes a sideshow<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Though, I suppose, we’ll probably see … urm… John McCain speak at the Hillary Clinton convention (though not the Elizabeth Warren one), and the Jeb Bush convention (though not the Ted Cruz one).\u00c2\u00a0 Does any of this make sense.<\/p>\n
\nThis bundle of Kennedy conspiracy theories will never go the way of the Whigs.\u00c2\u00a0 Which reminds me… just who did kill Zachory Taylor<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 When we get to the bottom of that, we’ll see the real story behind the death of the Whig Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"