[golux]

Kennedy was ten times the man Clinton is, and would have made a fine Republican to boot.

Here we find the crowd what screamed for McCain and Romney pissing on Kennedy, who was much, much more “conservative” than either.

[dfwgator]

Thanks (or No Thanks) to JFK, we got the 1965 Immigration Bill which has ruined this country.

[CaptainK]

I find nothing admirable about the Kennedy clan. Not one of them.

[knarf]

not many would agree with you

I do

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Here we find the crowd what screamed for McCain and Romney pissing on Kennedy, who was much, much more “conservative” than either.

Compare almost anybody in 1960 to almost anybody today and the 1960s person would be "more conservative" because the issues that are so divisive today weren't even on the horizon back then. So it's not really meaningful to say that JFK 1960 was somehow "more conservative" than McCain 2008.

For what little it's worth, if JFK had lived longer I really don't believe that he'd somehow go against his state, his party, and his family by becoming a Republican or being especially conservative. Most likely he'd drift the way they did. And if Kennedy were still alive today, at 99, he wouldn't be much of anything politically.