Dwight D. Eisenhower

Whom if serving currently, you and the left would slander and berate, based only on his skin color and political party. Evil leftism is as impossible to hide as your double standards and self contradictions.

You seem to know me so well. My most popular current memes are one that calls out Al Franken over his photo in which he mimes the grabbing of a woman's breats. She is a conservative commentator, and was sleeping at the time. He never got her permission. That makes it wrong on so many levels. The second one, which is more popular than the first one is a criticism of Bernie Sanders over his double standards concerning a $15 per hour minimum wage. I am not perfect. But, I don't know much about you. So, I will only comment on your comment. It is meritless, not supported by facts.

I guess you couldn't find any factual information to support your position. You don't, by any chance work for the IRA. It is about time for their bots to start showing up again. And, you remind me of them. Thanks for mentioning me in a Meme. Like Sinatra said, "There's no such thing as bad publicity, as long as they spell your name right."

Sure thing lefty LaRue

"A witty Mother." William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew

But he was the last decent Republican president.

His fiscal conservatism is a matter of record. As a matter of fact, he is considered to be the most fiscally conservative of the post WWII Presidents. His refusal to use traditional methods to stimulate the economy at any time, including right before elections as was the custom, caused an economic slowdown and possibly cost Nixon the 1960 election. He saw the Russians as a potential enemy, yet was unwilling to spend the money it took to compete with them to develop armaments, causing what was called a "Missile Gap." His support of personal freedom was part of traditional Republican values, as were his constant references to faith. He added, "One Nation under God," to the Pledge of Allegiance," and "In God We Trust," to our currency. His support of equal rights for Black Americans was in keeping with Republican policy and philosophy that dated back to their Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 14th Amendment, which was passed by Republicans. Support of philosophies that date back a century is the very definition of conservative. It only seems like a radically liberal idea to racists. He said on many occasions that the first rule he put to any suggestion, movement or law was, "Is it good for America." In fact Al Capp's "What's Good for General Bullmoose, is Good for the USA," was inspired by this. If historians, economists, the general public of his day and the man himself consider Eisenhower a conservative, why should we think otherwise? Finally, my Father who was a Rock Ribbed Republican for his entire life, considered Ike to be one.

As a matter of fact, Eisenhower was not a fan of the idea that the Federal government building a national highway system. A fellow Republican convinced him that such a system was needed to move military equipment and personnel quickly to repond to Soviet aggression. His "Is it good for America," motto was seen by some as a reaction to the America First movement that supported of his chief GOP rival in 1952, Governor Taft of Ohio. One of his chief detractors was the uber-"conservative," writer, William F. Buckley. Buckley wrote an editorial titled "Why the South Must Prevail," in 1957. He said that Blacks were intellectually inferior and Whites were the only race fit to run things. He was the conscience for an extremist movement among conservatives of his day. As the founder of the National Review, his philosophies survive today among extremists. The chief among these are the branding of real-conservatives as something else. Ike's economic conservatism produced budget surpluses and three recessions, including the worst since the Great Depression, prior to 2008. He refused to stimulate the economy and accepted these, precisely because he was a conservative. Those who call him otherwise appear to be steeped in the racist conservatism of Buckley, that equates supporting the Constitution as it relates to the rights of all, as not keeping with conservative thought. When support for the Constitution is not a conservative position, we have landed in Bizarro World.

I lived during the 1950s and 1960s. Almost all of America appeared to support the American idea of equality for all people. Only Southern DEMOCRATS, and other racists, vehemently opposed it. Some very conservative people did not want the Federal government to have the responsibility for enforcing Constitutional Rights on the state and local level. The civil rights laws of the time were enforcement tools. The Constitution, as amended, did not have such mechanisms. The founders believed that people would obey the Constitution's provisions, but left it to the people to decide how they would be enforced, when necessary. Conservatives in the mid-1950's supported the idea of equal rights, as guaranteed by the Constitution. They had issue, with the chosen enforcement method. I believe your statement that equality under the law was a radical idea at the time of Eisenhower's presidency, is not supported by the words of the real conservatives of his day. In 1957 the Southern Democrat who was governor of Arkansas, refused to obey the provisions of the Supreme Court Ruling against the concept of "Separate, but Equal," in public education, and refused to allow the Arkansas National Guard to enforce it. It become evident that enforcement would fall on the Federal government. The opinion overturning Separate, but Equal was written by the Republican Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. It was immediately condemned by the KKK and other racists.