Posted on 05/12/2007 6:49:50 AM PDT by rhema
If Harry were alive today he’d be a Republican. Can anyone imagine Harry S. Truman supporting a Party which advocated homosexual marriage? Or, abortion that is really infanticide? Or cutting and running from our obligations in the Middle East?
NEWSWEAK is right about one thing, we could use another Truman, and maybe his name is Fred Thompson.
You mean Weekly Standard, right?
At least Truman didn't claim to see into the man's soul.
I don’t remember any Memorial hospital in KC. There is a Truman Medical Center, however.
Weekly World News
FDR would pick Truman to be his running mate in 1944 and in the Spring of 1945 when FDR passed President Truman now had a need to know and was briefed on the weapon that would change the world.
I remember, when I read his memoirs, that he believed that one of the key components of a President's policy positions was a reading of and appreciation for HISTORY!
I have q degree in History and a minor in Political Science. I hereby throw my hat in the ring. You won't be sorry!
Yeah, I mean WEEKLY STANDARD; NEWSWEAK can’t even be right about one thing.
You got my vote.
That's only fair. If Mussolini were alive today he'd be a democrat.
He’d get my vote in a New York minute.
Can anyone imagine Harry Truman in a party whose elected members refused to close the borders, and prosecuted its own border agents and Marines for attempting to kill the enemy?
The majority of leading DEMs and especially those in the South were violently opposed to Truman's stated civil rights positions.
VP Henry Wallace ('41-'45) is an example of the DEMs even then... he would have been POTUS if he had remained VP in 1944 with FDR's pending death. Wallace ran against Truman in '48 on three major issues; Turn our nukes over to the United Nations, nationalize all the railroads and coal mines, and provide huge reconstruction funding for the Soviet Union.
Just few points from McCullough's book Truman.
Harry bears little resemblance to today's DEM traitors.
Harry’s conduct at Postdam was pure Democrat Party “roll over and play dead” tactics. Read his impressions of Stalin at this time...disgraceful.
Hmmm. Methinks the Weekly Standard is parodying some Republicans who are pining for another Ronald Reagan. I haven’t heard any Dems looking for another Harry.
Much better to be in Bush’s highly trained Army and get more respect from the Marines.
“Some day we’ll awake, have a reformation of the heart, teach our kids honor and kill a few sex psychologists, put boys in high schools with men teachers (not cissies), close all the girls finishing schools, shoot all the efficiency experts and become a nation of God’s people once more.”
From Truman’s diary some time in the 30’s
He might suspect the loyalty of some soldiers if they didn’t kill the enemy efficiently enough but merely “attempted.” A new degree of political correctness unfortunately now binds us.
And to think: Truman was more Republican than our current crop. (Think “roadmap.”)
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