actually, he couldn’t be a RAT today.
He was for cutting taxes and got congress to cut taxes.
-reduced top marginal income tax rate from 91% to 70%
-reduced corporate tax rate from 52% to 48%
Read his inaugural address. Everyone quotes “ask not....”, but that comes at the end of the address. What comes before is powerful. It wouldn’t make it out of editing today.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=8032
What revisionist nonsense, about such a depraved man.
Don’t let the public language of all politicians of the 1950s lead you to think that they would not still be democrats today.
Reagan of that era, in a personal letter to the vice-president asked to campaign for the republican and register republican, to counter what Reagan labelled a Marxist, in the letter.
“”No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote; but a Republican bucking the giveaway trend might re-create some voters who have been staying home.
One last thought - shouldn’t someone tag Mr. Kennedy’s bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx - first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Government being Big Brother to us all. Hitler called his ‘State Socialism’ and way before him it was ‘benevolent monarchy.’””