I'm Voting Republican

[Modbert]

In 1956 that is! Republican Party Platform of 1956 with President Eisenhower running for reelection.

Republican Party Platforms: Republican Party Platform of 1956 - August 20, 1956

While jealously guarding the free institutions and preserving the principles upon which our Republic was founded and has flourished, the purpose of the Republican Party is to establish and maintain a peaceful world and build at home a dynamic prosperity in which every citizen fairly shares.

We are proud of and shall continue our far-reaching and sound advances in matters of basic human needs—expansion of social security—broadened coverage in unemployment insurance —improved housing—and better health protection for all our people. We are determined that our government remain warmly responsive to the urgent social and economic problems of our people.

We support this and his further offer of United States participation in an international fund for economic development financed from the savings brought by true disarmament. We approve his determined resistance to disarmament without effective inspection.

Nearly four years ago when the people of this Nation entrusted their Government to President Eisenhower and the Republican Party, we were locked in a costly and stalemated war. Now we have an honorable peace, which has stopped the bitter toll in casualties and resources, ended depressing wartime restraints, curbed the runaway inflation and unleashed the boundless energy of our people to forge forward on the road to progress.

We shall continue vigorously to support the United Nations.

We shall continue to oppose the seating of Communist China in the United Nations.

We will ever fight the demoralizing influence of inflation as a national way of life. We are proud to have fulfilled our 1952 pledge to halt the skyrocketing cost of living that in the previous 13 years had cut the value of the dollar by half, and robbed millions of the full value of their wages, savings, insurance, pensions and social security.

Further reductions in taxes with particular consideration for low and middle income families.

We endorse the present policy of freedom for the Federal Reserve System to combat both inflation and deflation by wise fiscal policy.

To meet the immense demands of our expanding economy, we have initiated the largest highway, air and maritime programs in history, each soundly financed.

Beginning with our creation of the very successful Small Business Administration, and continuing through the recently completed studies and recommendations of the Cabinet Committee on Small Business, which we strongly endorse, we have focused our attention on positive measures to help small businesses get started and grow.

Legislation to enable closer Federal scrutiny of mergers which have a significant or potential monopolistic connotations;

Procedural changes in the antitrust laws to facilitate their enforcement;

Simplification of wage reporting by employers for purposes of social security records and income tax withholding;

Workers have benefited by the progress which has been made in carrying out the programs and principles set forth in the 1952 Republican platform. All workers have gained and unions have grown in strength and responsibility, and have increased their membership by 2 millions.

Protect by law, the assets of employee welfare and benefit plans so thatworkers who are the beneficiaries can be assured of their rightful benefits;

Assure equal pay for equal work regardless of Sex;

Clarify and strengthen the eight-hour laws for the benefit of workers who are subject to federal wage standards on Federal and Federally-assisted construction, and maintain and continue the vigorous administration of the Federal prevailing minimum wage law for public supply contracts;

Extend the protection of the Federal minimum wage laws to as many more workers as is possible and practicable;

Continue to fight for the elimination of discrimination in employment because of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry or sex;

Revise and improve the Taft-Hartley Act so as to protect more effectively the rights of labor unions, management, the individual worker, and the public. The protection of the right of workers to organize into unions and to bargain collectively is the firm and permanent policy of the Eisenhower Administration. In 1954, 1955 and again in 1956, President Eisenhower recommended constructive amendments to this Act. The Democrats in Congress have consistently blocked these needed changes by parliamentary maneuvers. The Republican Party pledges itself to overhaul and improve the Taft-Hartley Act along the lines of these recommendations.

We have supported the distribution of free vaccine to protect millions of children against dreaded polio.

Republican leadership has enlarged Federal assistance for construction of hospitals, emphasizing low-cost care of chronic diseases and the special problems of older persons, and increased Federal aid for medical care of the needy.

We have asked the largest increase in research funds ever sought in one year to intensify attacks on cancer, mental illness, heart disease and other dread diseases.

We demand once again, despite the reluctance of the Democrat 84th Congress, Federal assistance to help build facilities to train more physicians and scientists.

We have encouraged a notable expansion and improvement of voluntary health insurance, and urge that reinsurance and pooling arrangements be authorized to speed this progress.

We shall continue to seek extension and perfection of a sound social security system.

We have strengthened the Food and Drug Administration, and we have increased the vocational rehabilitation program to enable a larger number of the disabled to return to satisfying activity.

In the last four years, under direction from President Eisenhower to improve the postal service and reduce costs, we have modernized and revitalized the postal establishment from top to bottom, inside and out. We have undertaken and substantially completed the largest reorganization ever to take place in any unit of business or government:

We pledge immediate statehood for Alaska, recognizing the fact that adequate provision for defense requirements must be made.

We pledge immediate statehood for Hawaii.

We shall continue to pursue our enlightened policies which are now producing exceptional advances in the long struggle to help the American Indian gain the material and social advantages of his birthright and citizenship, while maintaining to the fullest extent the cultural integrity of the various tribal groups.

We recommend to Congress the submission of a constitutional amendment providing equal rights for men and women.

Segregation has been ended in the District of Columbia Government and in the District public facilities including public schools, restaurants, theaters and playgrounds. The Eisenhower Administration has eliminated discrimination in all federal employment.

The regulatory agencies under this Administration have moved vigorously to end discrimination in interstate commerce. Segregation in the active Armed Forces of the United States has been ended. For the first time in our history there is no segregation in veterans' hospitals and among civilians on naval bases. This is an impressive record. We pledge ourselves to continued progress in this field.

The Republican Party accepts the decision of the U.S.. Supreme Court that racial discrimination in publicly supported schools must be progressively eliminated. We concur in the conclusion of the Supreme Court that its decision directing school desegregation should be accomplished with "all deliberate speed" locally through Federal District Courts. The implementation order of the Supreme Court recognizes the complex and acutely emotional problems created by its decision in certain sections of our country where racial patterns have been developed in accordance with prior and long-standing decisions of the same tribunal.

The Republican Party supports an immigration policy which is in keeping with the traditions of America in providing a haven for oppressed peoples, and which is based on equality of treatment, freedom from implications of discrimination between racial, nationality and religious groups, and flexible enough to conform to changing needs and conditions.

In recognizing this principle under previous Republican Administrations we established the Veterans Administration. This Republican Administration increased compensation and pension benefits for veterans and survivors to provide more adequate levels and to off-set cost of living increases that occurred during the most recent Democratic Administration.

We have also improved quality of hospital service and have established a long-range program for continued improvement of such service. We have strengthened and extended survivors' benefits, thus affording greater security for all veterans in the interest of equity and justice.

In advancing this Republican program we pledge:

That compensation for injuries and disease arising out of service be fairly and generously provided for all disabled veterans and for their dependents or survivors;

That a pension program for disabled war veterans in need and for their widows and orphans in need be maintained as long as necessary to assure them adequate income;

That all veterans be given equal and adequate opportunity for readjustment following service, including unemployment compensation when needed, but placing emphasis on obtaining suitable employment for veterans, particularly those disabled, by using appropriate facilities of government and by assuring that Federal employment preference and re-employment rights, to which the veteran is entitled, are received;

That the Veterans Administration be continued as a single independent agency providing veterans services;

That the service-disabled continue to receive first-priority medical services of the highest standard and that non-service disabled war veterans in need receive hospital care to the extent that beds are available.

Our national parks, national forests and wildlife refuges are now more adequately financed, better protected and more extensive than ever before. Long-range improvement programs, such as Mission 66 for the National Parks system, are now under way, and studies are nearing completion for a comparable program for the National Forests. These forward-looking programs will be aggressively continued.

We favor full recognition of recreation as an important public use of our national forests and public domain lands.

We favor a comprehensive study of the effect upon wildlife of the drainage of our wetlands.

We favor recognition, by the States, of wild-life and recreation management and conservation as a beneficial use of water.

We subscribe to the general objectives of groups seeking to guard the beauty of our land and to promote clean, attractive surroundings throughout America.

This ladies and gentlemen is the Greatest President of the Post Modern World War II Era.

Ironically enough, The Republican Party of 1956 is more Liberal today than the Democratic Party of 2010. I just don't see a place in the party in 2010 for those like Ike however.

 

[xotoxi]

Eisenhower is dead! And so are his ideals!

It's time to grab your tea bags and move on into the 21.1st century!

 

[CrimsonWhite]

In 1956 that is! Republican Party Platform of 1956 with President Eisenhower running for reelection.

Republican Party Platforms: Republican Party Platform of 1956 - August 20, 1956

While jealously guarding the free institutions and preserving the principles upon which our Republic was founded and has flourished, the purpose of the Republican Party is to establish and maintain a peaceful world and build at home a dynamic prosperity in which every citizen fairly shares.

We are proud of and shall continue our far-reaching and sound advances in matters of basic human needs—expansion of social security—broadened coverage in unemployment insurance —improved housing—and better health protection for all our people. We are determined that our government remain warmly responsive to the urgent social and economic problems of our people.

Our national parks, national forests and wildlife refuges are now more adequately financed, better protected and more extensive than ever before. Long-range improvement programs, such as Mission 66 for the National Parks system, are now under way, and studies are nearing completion for a comparable program for the National Forests. These forward-looking programs will be aggressively continued.

We favor full recognition of recreation as an important public use of our national forests and public domain lands.

We favor a comprehensive study of the effect upon wildlife of the drainage of our wetlands.

We favor recognition, by the States, of wild-life and recreation management and conservation as a beneficial use of water.

We subscribe to the general objectives of groups seeking to guard the beauty of our land and to promote clean, attractive surroundings throughout America.

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This ladies and gentlemen is the Greatest President of the Post Modern World War II Era.

Ironically enough, The Republican Party of 1956 is more Liberal today than the Democratic Party of 2010. I just don't see a place in the party in 2010 for those like Ike however.

Ahhh, the good ol' days.

 

[elvis]

Eisenhower is dead! And so are his ideals!

It's time to grab your tea bags and move on into the 21.1st century!

well dead people voted for kennedy. why can't dogbert vote for a dead candidate?

 

[Modbert]

Ahhh, the good ol' days.

Can't we bring Ike to 2010 and send Palin and Co. back to 1956? They'd fit better there.

 

[Modbert]

well dead people voted for kennedy. why can't dogbert vote for a dead candidate?

Dead people voted for Nixon too. Just more dead people voted for Kennedy.

And considering how many republicans probably vote for Reagan a year, I could probably vote for Eisenhower.

 

[elvis]

Ahhh, the good ol' days.

Can't we bring Ike to 2010 and send Palin and Co. back to 1956? They'd fit better there.

I'll make the sacrifice and go back to 1956. i'd like to see Mickey Mantle's triple crown season.

 

[Modbert]

I'll make the sacrifice and go back to 1956. i'd like to see Mickey Mantle's triple crown season.

What a sacrifice on your part. Especially when you know what's going to happen. Win a lottery or five.

 

[CrimsonWhite]

Ahhh, the good ol' days.

Can't we bring Ike to 2010 and send Palin and Co. back to 1956? They'd fit better there.

I want Ike 1956, Goldwater 1964, and John McCain 2000.

 

[Modbert]

I want Ike 1956, Goldwater 1964, and John McCain 2000.

The Republican Dream Team if it were the Olympics.

Though you could round that out with Teddy Roosevelt. I remember reading a book a little while back which detailed what would of been his 3rd and 4th term. If it had gone the way the book detailed, definitely would of been a better America to say the least.

 

[xsited1]

I miss Eisenhower as well.

There were three recessions during his administration:

• July 1953 through May 1954
• August 1957 through April 1958
• April 1960 through February 1961

GDP growth averaged just 2.5 percent over those eight years, slowed by high tax rates. Thank goodness the fiscal conservative John F. Kennedy lowered taxes.

 

[Modbert]

I miss Eisenhower as well.

There were three recessions during his administration:

• July 1953 through May 1954
• August 1957 through April 1958
• April 1960 through February 1961

GDP growth averaged just 2.5 percent over those eight years, slowed by high tax rates. Thank goodness the fiscal conservative John F. Kennedy lowered taxes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Dwight_D._Eisenhower#Domestic_affairs

Seems someone nitpicked from Wikipedia.

You at least should of been honest enough to list why he did that:

Eisenhower believed that a free enterprise economy should run itself, and he took little interest in domestic policy.[citation needed] While his 1952 landslide gave the Republicans control of both houses of the Congress, Eisenhower believed that taxes could not be cut until the budget was balanced. "We cannot afford to reduce taxes, [and] reduce income," he said, "until we have in sight a program of expenditure that shows that the factors of income and outgo will be balanced." Eisenhower kept the national debt low and inflation near zero.[4]

There were three recessions during Eisenhower's administration — July 1953 through May 1954, August 1957 through April 1958, and April 1960 through February 1961. Real GDP growth averaged just 2.5% over those eight years. Eisenhower allowed the recessions to occur, to wring out the inflation of wartime.[4]

But nice attempt trolling.

Edit: Oh, and I guess you don't like a President who keeps the National Debt low and the inflation near zero.

 

[Polk]

Read that, then also read the GOP platform from 1968 (may have been 1972) which called for a guaranteed minimum income, and then inform me what the people who claim politics have gotten so much more liberal over the years were smoking.

 

[Toro]

I'm thinking of supporting the Republicans in 2010. I haven't read through Obama's budget yet, but it appears that there is a whole lot of spending between now and 2020, and that makes me uncomfortable.

 

[Polk]

I'm thinking of supporting the Republicans in 2010. I haven't read through Obama's budget yet, but it appears that there is a whole lot of spending between now and 2020, and that makes me uncomfortable.

Do you honestly think the Republicans will be any better? They'll spend just as much, if not more, but also cut taxes, causing the deficit to skyrocket.

 

[jillian]

Ahhh, the good ol' days.

Can't we bring Ike to 2010 and send Palin and Co. back to 1956? They'd fit better there.

I want Ike 1956, Goldwater 1964, and John McCain 2000.

none of them would make it past the primaries now.

you can throw in richard nixon, too... minus watergate.

 

[Luissa]

Ahhh, the good ol' days.

Can't we bring Ike to 2010 and send Palin and Co. back to 1956? They'd fit better there.

I want Ike 1956, Goldwater 1964, and John McCain 2000.

Don't tell anyone but I voted for McCain in the primaries in 2000, and had to register as republican to do so.

 

[Luissa]

I heard about this on public radio the other day, I laughed a little.

I also used to take care of WWII vet who hated Eisenhower, blaming him for all the deaths on D Day along with something else that happened in Africa. It used to crack me when he would go off about IKE.

 

[LuckyDan]

Can't we bring Ike to 2010 and send Palin and Co. back to 1956? They'd fit better there.

I want Ike 1956, Goldwater 1964, and John McCain 2000.

none of them would make it past the primaries now.

you can throw in richard nixon, too... minus watergate.

One of them made it past the primaries less than two years ago.

And no one, last of all the nominee, reads a convention platform except those who write it, and even then only to proofread before sending it to the press, after which time it is mothballed.

 

[Modbert]

One of them made it past the primaries less than two years ago.

And no one, last of all the nominee, reads convention platforms except those who write them, and even then only to proofread before sending it them the press, after which time they are mothballed.

John McCain of 2000 is not the same John McCain of 2008.

And Eisenhower's Administration reflected his platform.