The thing that bothers me is the assumption the person would be “frozen in time” and thrust forward X amount of years and would magically be in the opposition. I have little doubt if most of these people were around today, they would’ve “evolved” (or devolved) with the party.
There’s a former Governor of Alabama, John Patterson, nearly 100 years old, he ran against George Wallace in 1958, painting Wallace as a left-wing integrationist radical (the infamous contest where Wallace disavowed his racially moderate agenda and screamed he’d never be “outniggered” again and would be 100% rock-hard on segregation from then on). Patterson was close with the Kennedys (unlike Wallace), even as the KKK-supported candidate. Flash forward 50 years to 2008 and Patterson heartily supported Zero for President as a “loyal Democrat.”
Exactly, 90 year old JFK would have been first in line to endorse Obama.
And you know how I feel about f8888g Truman. I’ll say it again, I first read his speel from 1948 in the year 2000 and it was indistinguishable from Al Gore’s. The only reason he’s not one of our worst Presidents is because there have been some many other democrat pigs who were even worse.
Liberal originally meant moderate, anti-monarchist, pro-liberty, ethical/moral, enlightened-self-interested, free-marketeer. We call that conservative now. No wonder they don't flock to the Republican Party. /rimshot!