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    1. 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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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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    6. 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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    7. 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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    8. 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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    9. Kevin M. Kruse‏Verified account @KevinMKruse 11 Mar 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank @IraStoll

      Are you serious? Those "numerical ratings" are based on actual votes he took on actual issues. Here's the 1960 ADA scorecard counting votes on civil rights, taxes, medical care, minimum wage, public housing, education, etc. He voted the liberal position on each and every one.pic.twitter.com/HOUgwwkAin

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    10. Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON*‏Verified account @EsotericCD 11 Mar 2019
      Replying to @KevinMKruse @baseballcrank @IraStoll

      But it was an election year when he was fighting the primary for the Presidential nomination. C'mon Kevin, you haven't suddenly forgotten how Democratic politics works.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019
      Replying to @EsotericCD @KevinMKruse @IraStoll

      Or any politics.https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2008/01/mccains_acu_ratings.html …

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        1.  ❌MAGABOT ❌‏ @MAGABOT1776 11 Mar 2019
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          Numbers can be twisted to say anything you like. On the issues that matter, JFK was as conservative as Reagan or Trump.

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