Posted on 09/12/2012 10:09:48 PM PDT by Libloather
Clinton: Republican party controlled by most extreme members
By NBC's Andrew Rafferty
4 hours ago
ORLANDO, Fla. – Former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday painted Republicans as a party controlled by its most extreme members, unwilling to compromise and too conservative for former GOP leaders like Richard Nixon and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
"Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower – Richard Nixon’s too liberal for these people. It’s amazing," Clinton told the 2,000 people packed into a hotel ballroom here. He said the most right-wing members of the GOP control the party's nominations and "political operations."
**SNIP**
"The American people have to believe me on this; I have traveled all over the world, not just when I was president, but since I left,” Clinton said. “I work everywhere. I'm telling you what works; what works is cooperation. What fails is constant conflict. You've got to vote for cooperation."
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Nixon believed in price controls, high taxes and tariffs.
Buddy boy, there is no kinship between Nixon and Romney.
I wish.
Romney may not believe in price controls.
Perhaps because he is not but he is not president yet. Romney does however certainly believe in growing government as did Nixon.
The next president will likely have to deal with inflation (it is already here but is being covered up for the benefit of the One) and you can bet that the suggestion of price controls will come up. Do you really believe that Romney won’t consider them?
HA! FUBC!!!!!!
If the Republican Party was controlled by its most extreme members we would not have Romney as our candidate.
“Richard Nixon’s too liberal for these people”
Nixon? As in only Nixon can go to China? Mr. “We’re all Keynesians now”? Mr. Wage and Price Controls? Mr. Detente? Mr. EPA/OSHEA? Remind me why we’re supposed to like him. Alger Hiss?
Did Nixon say that? I thought that was Time magazine.
But you forgot dropping the gold standard.
Well he did bring the Viet Nam war to a conclusion that would have been in our favor had it not been for the communist in the congress.
“you forgot dropping the gold standard”
Yeah, but it was more of a technicality. 1933 was the watershed, which makes Nixon anticlamactic.
Projection. It amazes me how the libs love to project their pathologies on the right.
Nixon is the conservative extreme? My God are these people ill informed, delusional, brain dead, moonbat, libtard, ideologues.
“Did Nixon say that?”
I am a bit guilty of perpetuating a media myth, here. Milton Friedman said it, as reported by Time. What he actually said was that we’re all Keynesians now in one sense, but in another sense no one is. I forget what the two senses are. Nixon explicitly said “I am now a Keynesian” when we went offthe good standard. Which isn’t the exact quote, but was bundled in people’s minds with Frirdman’s quote.
So though the quote is spiffied up, he essentially said the same thing.
So they’d all be members of the Communist-Fascist-Mohammadan-Anti-American Democrat Party instead ?
I was just browsing through the web when I thought of looking up the Clinton Foundation. Does Clinton actually benefit financially from his foundation? Anyway look at some of his contributors, seems like his has lots of friends in Muslim countries. Notice the UN agenda code words as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Foundation#Criticism
Yeah, since RINOs are socialist/RAT poseurs, and they control the party...I guess he's correct.
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