"You have defended Nixon over the years for being an environmentalist, and Reagan"
I'm not sure whether I would consider them environmentalists, but both passed a lot of environmental legislation. Unless you are an R, what's not to like about clean air and water, or the EPA, or the special exemption which lets California have stricter mileage requirements?
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"The Democrats put forth Adlai Stevenson who would have been another Lincoln"
I doubt that. I don't even know if he would have been another FDR.
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"That is our job, and we have had to fight the Republicans for 100 years to get the job done."
You know what happened 100 years ago?
The Democratic Convention of 1924
The two leading candidates symbolized a deep cultural divide. Al Smith, New York's governor, was a Catholic and an opponent of prohibition and was bitterly opposed by Democrats in the South and West. Former Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo, a Protestant, defended prohibition and refused to repudiate the Ku Klux Klan, making himself unacceptable to Catholics and Jews in the Northeast.
Newspapers called the convention a "Klanbake," as pro-Klan and anti-Klan delegates wrangled bitterly over the party platform. The convention opened on a Monday and by Thursday night, after 61 ballots, the convention was deadlocked. The next day, July 4, some 20,000 Klan supporters wearing white hoods and robes held a picnic in New Jersey. One speaker denounced the "clownvention in Jew York." They threw baseballs at an effigy of Al Smith. A cross-burning culminated the event. |
