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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

      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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      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
      Replying to @baseballcrank @KevinMKruse @IraStoll
      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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      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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          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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