John and Bobby were our heroes and the people here act like they were total cretins. Both were allies of Joe McCarthy and both often transcended common politics.
I remember when Molly Ivins died and Freepers refused to trash her; even though she was an absolute enemy of conservatism. The loss of John Kennedy was a great loss for my generation and this country, and he was far more a friend than a foe.
JFK was a disaster for America, and Reagan despised the man as a Marxist. Reagan wrote a hand written letter to vice president Nixon saying that he was going to switch parties, and wanting permission to help Nixon defeat Kennedy.
Here are Reagan’s private thoughts on JFK-
"I do not include Kennedy's acceptance speech because beneath the generalities I heard a frightening call to arms. Unfortunately he is a powerful speaker with an appeal to the emotions. He leaves little doubt that his idea of the "challenging new world" is one in which the Federal Govt. will grow bigger & do more and of course spend more. I know there must be some short sighted people in the Republican Party who will advise that the Republicans should try to "out liberal" him. In my opinion this would be fatal."
””One last thought,— shouldn’t someone tag Mr. Kennedy’s bold new imaginative program with it’s proper age? Under the tousled boyish hair cut it is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Govt. being Big Brother to us all. Hitler called his “State Socialism” and way before him it was “benevolent monarchy.””