The Other McCain

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‘It’s Only Ever an Issue If …’

Posted on | April 20, 2012 | 11 Comments

“. . . the politician is Republican,” says Jim Hoft, speaking in particular of polygamy, but you could apply it to many “scandals.”

John Kennedy’s father was arguably pro-Hitler in the 1930s, but you don’t hear much about that, do you? Bobby Kennedy authorized J. Edgar Hoover’s wiretaps of Martin Luther King Jr., another subject you don’t hear much about.

One of the weirdest things is how almost everyone under 40 has been taught to think of Vietnam as “Nixon’s war,” when in fact U.S. military involvement began under Kennedy, was escalated by Lyndon Johnson and was ended by Nixon.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012, Gateway Pundit, Mitt Romney

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11 Responses to “‘It’s Only Ever an Issue If …’”

  1. Diana
    April 20th, 2012 @ 3:56 pm

    Thank you for that … it’s ABOUT TIME somebody said it.

  2. Adobe_Walls
    April 20th, 2012 @ 4:26 pm

    And it was John Kennedy who gave the OK to the military to launch the coup against Diem resulting in his and many other deaths. Romney’s father or grandfather wasn’t a bootlegger either.

  3. Brian D Paasch
    April 20th, 2012 @ 4:45 pm

    “One of the weirdest things is how almost everyone under 40 has been taught to think of Vietnam as “Nixon’s war,” when in fact U.S. military involvement began under Kennedy, was escalated by Lyndon Johnson and was ended by Nixon.”

    It is always astonishing to me how effective and durable lies are and how easily we believe them. But Eve believed that damned snake and Adam was happy to jump off the cliff with her….

  4. Bob Belvedere
    April 20th, 2012 @ 6:07 pm

    So…Willard’s grandfather was a polygamist…well, Obama’s declared/official father was one too.

  5. So, Whose Father Was a Polygamist? | The Lonely Conservative
    April 20th, 2012 @ 6:54 pm

    […] Gateway Pundit notes, these things are only issues when they’re used against Republicans. The Other McCain points out this rationale applies to all sorts of scandals.John Kennedy’s father was arguably […]

  6. Adjoran
    April 20th, 2012 @ 8:32 pm

    George was raised in a monogamous household; I don’t know enough about Granddaddy to state he had never been polygamous, but he wasn’t by the time GR was born.

     There are probably a lot of practices in Obama’s family tree that will appear very strange to Americans.

  7. Quartermaster
    April 20th, 2012 @ 9:01 pm

    That is, if His father wasn’t actually Frank Marshall, which he probably was.

  8. Quartermaster
    April 20th, 2012 @ 9:03 pm

    Actually, Ike sent a few advisors to Vietnam. JFK escalated things a bit, and also had Diem killed, which put us in over our heads. LBJ put us in to the extent we had half a million troops over there at the height. I have no problem with fighting the Vietnam war. But LBJ would really allow it to come to that. Nixon inherited a mess that he ended in a rather dishonorable way.

  9. Pathfinder's wife
    April 21st, 2012 @ 12:29 am

    I think we can probably get beyond the “Bootlegger Joe was arguably pro-Adolf” and got with “there is a high probability creeping towards relative certainty that Bootlegger Joe thought Hitler was the shizzle”.
    And what Quartermaster said about Vietnam — although something should likely be said about how the media and certain politicians and influential movers and shakers of the time kinda helped “lose” that one for us, arguably at least.

  10. Mike Rogers
    April 21st, 2012 @ 8:56 am

    Since you’re linking Amazon, don’t forget the PIG to the Vietnam war.

  11. ThePaganTemple
    April 21st, 2012 @ 1:02 pm

     His grandfather wasn’t, his great-grandfather was. The commune Mitt’s grandfather and father lived in while in Mexico was a mixed commune which just happened to include some polygamists.