Firing Line With William F. Buckley: The Future of The GOP With Richard Nixon (1966)

Posted on August 21, 2014 by Rik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat 

This is where Richard Nixon rebuilt his political career as someone who can not only raise a lot of money, but build up a lot of support not just for himself, but for candidates he endorsed and use that influence to get other Republicans elected and reelected. To the point that so many Republicans in Congress by 1968 owed the former Vice President lots of favors and he had countless political endorsements he could count on when he ran for president against in 1968.

Dick Nixon spent a lot of 1966 campaigning for Republicans especially in Congress and campaigning for Congressional Republican candidates to the point that House Republicans picked up forty-seven seats in 1966. And Senate Republicans picked up four seats and this was when House Republicans only had one-hundred forty seats out of 435 in the House of Representatives in 1965-66 and only had thirty-two seats out of a hundred in the Senate.

1966 is where we get a real good look at the American political landscape changing and where we were no longer a country dominated by Democrats politically. Because Republicans moved into the South and West by winning races there not just in Congress, but at the state level as well with Ronald Reagan being elected Governor of California. And at the same time Republicans were able to hold on and manage their strength in the Northeast and Midwest.

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NBC News: Democratic Response to President Ronald Reagan’s 1985 State of the Union

Posted on August 21, 2014 by Erik Schneider


Source:The New Democrat 

This is where we start to see the Democratic Leadership Council the New Democrats in the Democratic Party starting to take over the Democratic Party after the Democrats had just lost 4-5 presidential elections starting in 1968. The McGovernites the New Left took over the Democratic Party in the late 1960s from the liberal and progressive establishment in the party. And as a result Democrats were seen as tax and spend, government can do everything for everybody, people shouldn’t have to work and support themselves, soft of welfare, soft on defense, soft on crime. All the stereotypes that killed the Democratic Party at the presidential level in those four presidential election losses.

What the New Democrats were saying is “that we won’t win the White House back and perhaps even come close until the change the image of the party and how we are presented. So we don’t look like we want to spend most of the money that people make for them. That we will do what it takes to defend the country from domestic and foreign predators within the Constitution. That we’ll use Welfare and other public assistance to help move people out of poverty instead of expecting nothing from them as so many other Americans struggle to just pay their bills through working and not collecting public assistance”.

And by 1992 we saw the results with Bill Clinton being elected President of the United States with large majorities in Congress and by 1996 we saw most of the negative stereotypes disappear to the point that Americans trusted Democrats more than Republicans when it came to taxes, the economy, fiscal responsibility, crime, foreign policy and national defense. Because the New Democrats took control of the Democratic Party from the McGovernites.

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The Today Show: George Wallace on the Eve of the 1972 Florida Primary

Posted on August 20, 2014 by kireschneider

Source:The New Democrat 

If George Wallace couldn’t win in Florida in 1972, he wasn’t going to win anywhere outside of Alabama. Because Florida looked like Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina culturally and politically in 1972. Not to pick on those three states, but only Florida has progressed somewhat economically and culturally to the point where you don’t have to be with the Religious Right in order to do well in the state politically. So if Governor Wallace doesn’t win Florida, he might of well just ended his presidential campaign then and there.

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The Woody Allen Show: William F. Buckley (1967)

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Derik Schneider

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Source:Metrazol Electricity– Woody & Billy?

Source:The New Democrat

“Woody Allen invites the legendary conservative icon William Buckley on his show”

From  Metrazol Electricity

As conservative, snobby, and Anglo-Saxon waspy as Bill Buckley came off at least came off as, he had a damn quick and good sense of humor. He wasn’t so preppy and full of himself and thought he knew it all about everything, that he couldn’t take a joke and fire one back right on target and get a reaction and even laugh out of the people he was talking too. And I think that comes off in this quick little interview between two of the best wisecrack artists who ever lived, in Woody Allen and Bill Buckley.

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John Stossel: Illegal Everything

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Ederik Schneider


Source:The New Democrat 

Gee I got a crazy idea. How about we outlaw the big government nanny state instead? Yeah from now on any legislature that votes for or passes big government nanny laws, they get charged with infringing on free adults freedom to live their own lives. Probably would need more technical language that sounds like Greek or something. But I’m not a lawyer, so I don’t speak Greek, so I apologize. (Wait what am I apologizing for) And when legislatures try to pass some brain dead idea like this, they can spend time in the jails that they want free adults who they feel are too stupid to manage their own affairs to do time in.

Outlawing lemonade stands, or making it illegal to drive or sit in a car without a seatbelt, or illegal to ride a bike without a helmet, “who do these laws protect?” Nanny statists would naturally say “the people”. But the natural response to that would be, “protecting the people from who?” They would be less inclined to answer that question and if you ask a nanny statist with any kind of honesty, they may say “protecting people from dangerous behavior”. Who’s dangerous behavior” The nanny statist again if they are honest may say “from the individuals dangerous behavior”.

Again I’m not a lawyer, so I don’t speak Greek or Chinese. But I do speak English real good. (Ha ha) And the people that nanny statists want to protect free adults from are themselves. People who believe in nanny laws want to protect people from themselves. Hey I got a radical idea here. Instead of nanny laws we allow for free adults to make their own decisions. Require that all of the information to be out there so free adults can make the best decisions possible and then hold them responsible for the decisions that they make. More free people on the street, less people in prison.

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CBS News: Face The Nation: Richard Nixon (October 27, 1968)

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Rik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat 

Politically and ideologically Richard Nixon would be called what we call a Northeastern Republican today at least on social issues and even as it related to the safety net. He wasn’t against the safety net, but didn’t want it running people’s lives for them and believe mentally and able body people who could work should be required to work. Even though he was from California and lived there, or at least had a home there his whole life he was ideologically very similar to a New York or New England Republican on those issues.

People like to call Dick Nixon a Centrist or perhaps even a Progressive or Liberal today. But the fact was he wasn’t crazy about big government in our economic or personal lives. (Unless he felt it benefited him politically, IE Watergate and other snooping operations) He was a true Federalist when it came to economic issues and the safety net at least. Believed in a strong national defense and was a Conservative Internationalist on foreign policy. Law and order, I mean he had serious traditional Conservative Republican leanings, but wasn’t as far to the Right as the Tea Party or even Ronald Reagan.

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CBS Evening News: Ohio 1972 Presidential Democratic Primary

Posted on August 19, 2014 by kireschneider

Source:The New Democrat 

The Democratic Party didn’t have a traditional frontrunner for president in 1972. They were out of the White House and even though Hubert Humphrey who was their nominee for president in 1968 was still running for president the Democratic Party was very divided between the progressive establishment that then in 1972 Senator Humphrey came from, the New Left in the party that I least call the McGovernites led by Senator George McGovern and the George Wallace Dixiecrats.

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Liberty Pen: Saul Alinsky – Mobilizing The Poor (1967)

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Derik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat 

What I got in from this discussion from the few moments that Saul Alinsky got to talk about his own personal philosophy even though this is about a fifteen-minute video, is that Mr. Alinsky was saying that “democracy that of course it is not perfect, is the best political system on the planet. But that democracy needs to work for everyone and not just be there for people who have money, or a lot of money. That everyone should have power and the ability to live in freedom. And that freedom shouldn’t just be for people born to wealth and even just for people who create their own wealth.”

Which sounds very mainstream to me and values that I believe Liberals, Progressives, Socialists and perhaps even Conservatives can all agree on. But the only question being what is the best way to make that happen so we don’t have a country with very few wealthy people and a lot of poor people. But where where a lot of people are at least successful with money in the bank and not living paycheck to paycheck and struggling just to pay their bills. Whether they are rich or not.

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Libertarianism: Video: Campus Censorship and the End of the American Debate: Trevor Burrus & Jason Kuznicki Interview Greg Lukianoff

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Ederik Schneider

This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on Blogger

Campus censorship and fascism is not real liberalism, but real fascism. And the New Left in America is much further left and statist and politically correct oriented then what liberalism is and is supposed to be. And have decided to redefine the Constitution including the First Amendment to fit their collectivist and statist ideology to protect people they care about at the expense of everyone else. The New Left is not the Center-Left in America, but a Far-Left ideology that came into existence in America in the late 1960s and early 1970s. But they aren’t Liberals and part of the Center-Left in America.

Free Speech Champions

Free Speech Champions

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The Federalist: Opinion: David Harsanyi: “Sorry, Libertarians. You’ll Will Never Convert Liberals”: Distinguishing Liberals From Libertarians & Statists

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Rik Schneider


The Federalist: Opinion: David Harsanyi: Sorry, Libertarians. You Will Never Convert Liberals

This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on Blogger

Just to correct David Harsanyi for a moment. The creation of the nanny state is not a “big city liberal idea”. The nanny state is anti-liberal and statist at its core. It is the ultimate “we the state know better than you even though we never met you or know you, but we still know better than you how you should live your own life”. And both statists on the Left and Right are in favor of the nanny state. Whether it comes to soft drinks, junk food, light bulbs on the Left. Or pornography, certain types of music, movies, homosexuality and speech on the  Right. And gambling, narcotics even marijuana, alcohol and tobacco on both the Left and Right. The Far-Left and Far-Right tend to agree on certain key personal choice issues.

As far as young Americans and this is where both the future of liberalism and libertarianism looks good. Millennial’s on the Left like the idea of a public safety net, but there to help people in need. Not to manage their lives for them. So they like the idea of a public social insurance system for people who are unemployed, can’t afford enough food, health insurance, housing etc. But don’t want a large welfare state to manage their economic affairs, or nanny state to manage their personal affairs for them. You have young Liberals like this in the Democratic Party. And you have young Libertarians who are against the safety net all together in and outside of the Republican Party.

Which is good news for people who believe in both economic and personal freedom on both the Left and Right. That you have a large percentage of Americans in my Generation X who believe in both whether they believe in a safety net or not. And you have such a large percentage of Millennial’s who believe in both economic and personal freedom on the Right as well. Which gives both Democrats and Republicans Liberals and Libertarians a real opening to appeal to these voters if they choose to. 

 

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