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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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