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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

      16. Prof. Kruse excuses this by noting that JFK left rates a lot higher than they are today. True! But he also pushed to increase defense spending, even though he inherited a *vastly* bigger defense budget than we have today.

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

      17. JFK pushed defense spending to almost 10% of GDP and 50% of federal spending; today it is roughly 3.5% of GDP & 16% of federal spending. He also ran on fears of a "missile gap" - that Eisenhower, of all people, was soft on nukes - & expanded our nuclear arsenal.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

      18. Like many aspects of JFK's policies, his expansion of defense spending was clawed back some, & he built more missiles but also signed a nuclear test ban treaty. But then again, Reagan signed arms control deals, too. History is complicated!

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

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      19. JFK urged "strengthening NATO, promoted free trade and denounced the use of protective tariffs." Yes, these are longstanding conservative positions, & are shared by many Rs in Congress today. This just shows that JFK was more conservative than Trump. https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1104826910306197504 …

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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

      20. Tariffs are taxes; JFK cutting them was consistent with his overall orientation towards tax cuts. Also "strengthening NATO" is an understated way of saying JFK was a vocal & vigorous Cold Warrior who almost came to blows with the Soviets in Berlin.https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/standoff-checkpoint-charlie-1961/ …

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

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      21. Prof. Kruse does the same thing here: "oh yeah, he stood up to the Russians." Tough-on-USSR was, of course, the conservative position throughout the Cold War, not the liberal one. It has remained the position of many non-Trump conservatives since. https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1104826923589554176 …

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    7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

      23. JFK's Vietnam policy remains controversial on Right & Left alike, as does what we *should* have done in Vietnam. But the fact that his Administration escalated our presence there & backed the overthrow of Diem in South Vietnam should tell you how far JFK was from the Left.

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    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

      24. JFK lifted regulatory & ratemaking burdens on natural gas producers: "If it is in the public interest to maintain an industry, it is clearly not in the public interest by the impact of regulatory authority to destroy its otherwise viable way of life." https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/special-message-the-congress-the-regulatory-agencies#axzz2hS0cKtX6 …

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    9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

      25. On welfare programs, JFK in his 1962 SOTU argued for "stressing services instead of support, rehabilitation instead of relief, and training for useful work instead of prolonged dependency." A 1990s neoliberal theme, but surely more Reagan & Newt than Pelosi.

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    10. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

      26. Prof. Kruse doesn't mention guns. JFK was the only Democratic president to be a Life Member of the NRA. He gave a pro-Second Amendment statement to Guns Magazine in 1960: https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKWHP/1961/Month%2004/Day%2028/JFKWHP-1961-04-28-C?image_identifier=JFKWHP-ST-91-1-61 … https://web.archive.org/web/20180326063342/http://gunsmagazine.com/1960issues/G0460.pdf …

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

      27. Note that JFK statement on guns stressed "the right of each citizen" to bear arms. Also some other lawmakers ducked the question; one who came out roughly where JFK did was Democratic Senator Willis Robertson, father of Pat.pic.twitter.com/KTFRI6bFZe

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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

          28. JFK in 1961: "Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life..." https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/life-of-john-f-kennedy/john-f-kennedy-quotations/commemorative-message-on-roosevelt-day …

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

          29. What about abortion & birth control? JFK was Catholic. He put Byron White, dissenter in Roe v Wade (& author of Bowers v Hardwick) on SCOTUS. In 1959-60, JFK described abortion as "repugnant" & opposed US funding of birth control abroad:pic.twitter.com/5z1SExXZvE

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        4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

          30. You get the point: JFK was liberal on some issues, but quite conservative on others. He was more conservative than the Democrats who preceded or followed him, & took key positions his party later renounced as anathema. Don't let progressives tell you history says otherwise.

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        5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

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          31 (epilogue) I see the Prof. has posted a response, which declines to engage with Kennedy's position on any issue & falls back mostly on numerical ratings. https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1105239767929761794 …

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        6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

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          32. More on this later, but note that the Congressional coalitions have shifted quite a lot since then https://twitter.com/jordanlperkins/status/1105207830926249984 …

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        7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

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          33. Also, Bob Novak calling him a liberal is...not surprising. He was arguing against electing him! https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1105239765358702594 …

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        8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

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          34. This too is unsurprising. As I noted upthread, JFK's primary strategy required courting liberals unenthused with Texan LBJ & Missouri's Stu Symington (backed by Truman). Thus his protean effort to paint himself as a liberal intellectual author https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1105239763420934144 …

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        9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

          35. Anyway, if @KevinMKruse wants to define this as what a "liberal" should believe, I'm fine with that. George W. Bush probably would, too.pic.twitter.com/hmrSZu58h9

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        10. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

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          36. That is not how this works. Each vote's scoring is subjective. Whether to weight different votes by importance is subjective. Not everything that has a number is a hard fact.https://twitter.com/jessphoenix2018/status/1105287272369336320 …

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          Jess Phoenix  🌋Verified account @jessphoenix2018
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          Hey Dan, where do you think numerical ratings come from? It's like in baseball...batting averages come from performance at the plate. Kennedy's liberal ratings came from his voting performance in office.
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        11. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

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          37. To put a bow (for now) on this thread, some furthe reading on numerical ratings....https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1105261747630411776 …

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          For the record, while they are not totally useless, I have been a skeptic of numerical ideological ratings for many years. They have unfixable methodological flaws. https://twitter.com/IraStoll/status/1105260411727814656 …
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        12. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

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          38. ...and the point where the Professor threw the towel. But again: don't take my, or his, word for it. Read the evidence yourself on an issue-by-issue basis & decide.https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1105265928386822149 …

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          Readers can go issue by issue through both of our threads, reviewing the primary sources & direct quotations & citations, & I encourage them to do so. The evidence speaks for itself. https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1105264846910693376 …
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