Posted on 04/19/2012 12:14:56 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
States rights started it’s death throes during a stormy overcast July about 1 mile south of a small whistle-stop PA town in 1863. It took 3 days to finish the job.
Fixed.
Didn’t Henry Wallace later renounce his liberalism and endorse that liberal Richard Nixon in 1968?
Things are not the same today
Demographics is destiny
Even if Gas was $9.00 a gallon and Inflation and Unemployment were 30%+ a Ronald Reagan would still lose California, New York and Illinois and many other states.
Within 10 years the same will be able to be said of Texas
America was mortally wounded in 1965 with Ted Kennedy's Immigration and Nationality Act,
He’s popular over on Lew Rockwell, one of those “not welcome on FR” sites:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north-arch.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=Gary+North
He cites the late Paul Weyrich, and I found this interesting, in light of the former FReeper and moonbat Willie Green:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weyrich#Rail_transit_activism
Rail transit activism
In contrast with many conservatives, Weyrich had a long history of ardent support for rail mass transit.[12][13] He opposed “Bus rapid transit”,[14] (a particular type of bus transit with higher capacity but also higher costs than ordinary bus transit), and instead supported rail transit as a more effective alternative. In 1988 he co-founded a quarterly magazine on the subject of urban rail transit, called The New Electric Railway Journal, which until 1996 was published by FCF, and he was its Publisher.[15] He wrote an opinion column for most issues and contributed a few feature articles. FCF discontinued its affiliation with TNERJ in 1996, but the magazine continued being produced, under a different publishing company,[15] until the end of 1998, with Weyrich listed as “Publisher Emeritus”. In early 2000,[16] about a year after the last magazine was published, Weyrich and William S. Lind (who had been the magazine’s Associate Publisher until 1996) launched a website where they could continue to post their views and news about rail transit. They called the webpage “The New New Electric Railway Journal”,[16] and Weyrich wrote numerous op-ed columns in favor of proposed light rail and metro systems. He also supported bringing back streetcars to U.S. cities.[17]
Weyrich also served on the national board of Amtrak (1987-1993)[18] and the Amtrak Reform Council, as well as on local and regional rail transit advocacy organizations.
Thanks Tolerance Sucks Rocks.
If he did I'm unaware of it, and I'd be hard put to explain, if it's the same Henry Wallace, why a lifelong Red would endorse the consummate and preeminent anticommunist politician of his day.
From Wikipedia, FWIW:
In 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea, Wallace broke with the Progressives and backed the U.S.-led war effort in the Korean War.[5] In 1952, Wallace published Where I Was Wrong, in which he explained that his seemingly-trusting stance toward the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin stemmed from inadequate information about Stalin's excesses and that he, too, now considered himself an anti-Communist. He wrote various letters to "people who he thought had traduced (maligned) him" and advocated the re-election of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956.[5]In 1961, President-elect John F. Kennedy invited him to his inauguration ceremony, though he had supported Kennedy's opponent Richard Nixon. A touched Wallace wrote to Kennedy: "At no time in our history have so many tens of millions of people been so completely enthusiastic about an Inaugural Address as about yours."[5]
I learned something, too.
Wallace was a raring-to-go Red in the 30's. Be interesting to know what, if anything, changed his mind -- other than HUAC breathing down his neck.
So, we don't just lie there and bleed out and wait for the guy with the chalk. We get our butt to a hospital, get help, heal up, and then go looking with a bunch of our friends for the guy who cut us.
And we solve our social problem.
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