Posted on 04/09/2016 5:31:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Good article. The Demorat convention of 1924 has been on my mind ever since Wisconsin. This is going to be a very hotly contested convention. The fight between the candidates has become personal and deeply acrimonious. And if their respective supporters are to be believed, they will not support any other candidate in the general election other than their guy.
We might as well save the country a lot of money by canceling the election and declare the wicked witch to be the winner right now.
You seem to be rather ignorant. Canot you express a thought without sounding like a child who just learned the dirty words?
If voting made such a difference, it would not be allowed.
No one wants to explain to his pals in the cabal how he was voted out.
What fun is being a titan if you can’t stay up on Mount Othrys?
Poor Ted, just not very well liked, and way behind in the accumulation of delegates.
How’d that Christian vote in the South go Ted?
That’s a neat story!
-JT
I’m ignorant? You are the one who made a ridiculous claim that doesn’t pass the laugh test.
My grandfather, from the same old neighborhood as Al Smith, became one of Smith’s NYPD bodyguards for the new governor of New York. Alas I did not know my grandfather but of the many stories passed down in the family by my grandfather on being a detective during the roaring twenties, the ‘24 convention was legend. The heat, the visceral excitement in the garden contrasted with the normal guarding of the Governor which my grandfather said was boring.
Except this time.
What Trump may show is that it is not possible to do a hostile takeover of a political party where the party if fundamentally dishonest and corrupt. That includes Cruz. In the business world, this kind of behavior would land a board of directors in jail. The rules of a takeover are clear and enforced by courts. Not for political parties.
And so, the end result is that instead of taking over the Republican party, it must simply be killed. Great damage may occur to the country in the meantime.
JFK was not a Conservative, not in 1960 (save perhaps for his notions on cutting the absurdly high income tax rates of the time). The party was already Socialist by then and would not brook someone not of the left. His views on expansionist and activist government would not make him “Conservative” by today’s standards, either.
In 1928, he was an average “Progressive” Democrat. The big question is whether he would’ve pursued the same agenda as FDR had he been elected in 1932. Because of his animosity to FDR’s radical agenda, he was already casting his lot with the GOP in 1936 and 1940 (he died before the 1944 elections), although he never officially became one. He’d probably be revolted by their social positions today, most sane folks of that era would (except, of course, for Eleanor Roosevelt - she’d be at the vanguard of the radical sodomite movement today).
FK was not a Conservative, not in 1960 (save perhaps for his notions on cutting the absurdly high income tax rates of the time). The party was already Socialist by then and would not brook someone not of the left. His views on expansionist and activist government would not make him “Conservative” by today’s standards, either.>>> actually he was the last president to issue real money. i think he was killed for it.
1924 is 1924. A contested convention means GOP goes into minority, probably forever.
There is no party loyalty anymore, because the the GOP is as a party has ceased to have a platform.
I personally believe Patton knew what was going on and it cost him his life.
Al Smith would be a conservative by today’s standards. He opposed FDR’s reelections.
With 20/20 hindsight I rather wish he would have won in ‘28. He’d likely not have been any worse than RINO Hoover and the GOP wouldn’t have gotten the blame. I wonder though if maybe some left-wing RINO like Senator Borah would have gotten elected in 1932 then. That would have been bad.
I never would have voted for Smith at the time of course. Coming from a Catholic family I’d probably have been gungo against him. My mom’s parents were the among the only ones in her Catholic school who were for Nixon. When the teachers asked the kids who their parents were for only one other hand in her class went up for Nixon, besides hers. I don’t know much about her grandparents (all Catholic) but one Grandpa would have cut his own arm off before voting for a democrat. Especially after FDR made him trade in his gold.
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