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Smartmouthwoman
06-04-2012, 11:14 AM
Excellent article... very insightful.

JFK and the Death of Liberalism (http://spectator.org/archives/2012/05/31/jfk-and-the-death-of-liberalis)

John F. Kennedy, the father of the Reagan Democrats, would have been 95 this week. May 29th of this week marked John F. Kennedy's 95th birthday.


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Had he never gone to Dallas, had he the blessings of long years like his 105 year old mother Rose, the man immutably fixed in the American memory as a vigorous 40-something surely would be seen in an entirely different light.

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Once upon a time -- in 1950 -- Bob Tyrrell notes that the liberal intellectual Lionel Trilling could honestly open his book The Liberal Imagination with this sentence:
In the United States at this time Liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition.

It was true in 1950 -- and it was still true on the day John F. Kennedy's motorcade began to make its way through the streets of Dallas.

It was still true a year later, when Kennedy's successor Lyndon Johnson swamped the GOP's conservative nominee Barry Goldwater.

But something had happened by 1964. Something Big. And it's fair to wonder on the anniversary of John F. Kennedy's 95th birthday if in fact that Something Big would ever have happened at all if Kennedy had not been in Lee Harvey Oswald's gun sight that sunny November day almost 49 years ago.

In short, one wonders. Did the bullets that killed JFK hit another target -- liberalism itself?

Unlike JFK, not killing liberalism instantly but inflicting something else infinitely more damaging than sudden death? Or, as Tyrrell puts it, inflicting "a slow, but steady decline of which the Liberals have been steadfastly oblivious."

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(http://spectator.org/archives/2012/05/31/jfk-and-the-death-of-liberalis/)***

Gotta luv "Uncle Cornpone and his Little Porkchop" -- so typical lib. It's no wonder they're on the way out...