I was rather pleased to see a column out on the Fox News site regarding 20th Century conservatism in America, and its ties to the JFK presidency. Such ties have been, and continue to be, ignored by both media and historians, who even in the far left “progressivism” that now dominates the Democratic Party, would have Americans believe they still have anything in common with the far more politically pragmatic and conservative-leaning John F. Kennedy.

The Cold War Warrior and Fiscal Conservative, President John F. Kennedy

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(via Fox News)

Can conservatives stake a claim to JFK’s legacy?

Ronald Reagan knew that there was always one reliable way to annoy liberals: When advocating for one of his conservative policies, he’d invoke the name of John F. Kennedy.

For his 1980 campaign against Jimmy Carter, Reagan made a television commercial in which he praised JFK’s broad tax cuts 20 years earlier, saying, “when he cut taxes everyone gained from an expanding, fully employed economy … If I’m elected, we’ll do it again.”

A broad swath of Democrats crossed party lines and contributed to Reagan’s victory that year (and thus were born “Reagan Democrats”), and in his re-election effort four years later, Reagan cited JFK 51 times on the campaign trail. The JFK references so irritated Kennedy’s brother, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (by then, the “Liberal Lion” of the Senate), that the younger Kennedy peevishly declared, “Ronald Wilson Reagan has no right to quote John Fitzgerald Kennedy!”

continue at The Ulsterman Report:

http://theulstermanreport.com/2013/11/15/the-conservative-legacy-of-jfk-and-how-far-obama-democrats-have-fallen/