Even after all these years, Harry Truman's comments about Republicans ring true today...

[Drunken Irishman]

It's the most succinct and accurate comments from a president made about a political party ever, IMO.

[RKP5637]

1. Timeless!!! So damn true today!!! n/t

[elleng]

2. ABSOLUTELY!

[Sherman A1]

3. Always one of my favorites

from President Truman.

[AJT]

4. I can't find this quote. Is there a source for this?

[msongs]

5. read this note on snopes attesting to it and giving the date..

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/october-surprise/

[Drunken Irishman]

7. It was during a speech when Truman was stumping for Hubert Humphrey in Minneapolis.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/october-surprise/

[msongs]

6. another truman quote dems would be wise to resurrect...

Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time

yet every election conservadems lose to real repubs

[UTUSN]

8. *SAY* it, HST!1

[SunSeeker]

9. This has been true of the GOP since at least Hoover.

They stopped being the party of Lincoln not long after Lincoln died.

[SunSeeker]

10. This has been true of the GOP since at least Hoover.

They stopped being the party of Lincoln not long after Lincoln died.

[ZeroSomeBrains]

11. Love it

[Karadeniz]

12. Wow! Some things never change. Amazing.

[Mr. Ected]

13. Give 'em hell, Harry!

They're impostors to the core.

[lpbk2713]

14. Give em hell Harry.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

36. "I don't give them hell. I just tell the truth about them and they think it's hell." n/t

[greyl]

15. Missing last paragraph and typo-corrected penultimate paragraph:

And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.

Now, my friends, that is the Wall Street Republican way of life. But there is another way — there is another way — the Democratic way, the way of the Democratic Party.

http://www.writersresist.com/2017/01/05/president-truman-calls-on-all-liberals-and-progressives/

[world wide wally]

16. If 40% of Americans don't get it by now...

When will they?

[zaj]

17. It's much worse today

[rpannier]

18. I thought you were going to post this Truman quote

“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.”

(borrowed and altered from Mark Twain)

[tblue37]

25. Isn't that a Will Rogers line? nt

[rpannier]

32. I first heard it as a Truman quote about republicans

According to brainy quote Twain said, "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/mark_twain_161288

[dlk]

19. At Least the Republicans are Consistent Over Time...

[FakeNoose]

20. I believe he said these words in 1948 when he was running for re-election

'Memba this? The famous 1948 photo when Truman was re-elected to his 2nd term. This was long before electronic voting machines and the vote counting could sometimes take as long as 24 hours. The Chicago Tribune printed their incorrect headline before the final vote tally came in, and boy did they look stupid.

I don't actually remember it myself, I wasn't born until 1951. But I remember my parents talking about it.

[DFW]

28. For my high school senior American History project, I chose the election of 1948

My grandmother had been a big fundraiser for Humphrey's Senate campaign in 1948, and my dad had just started his career as a print journalist. A friend of my dad's wrote what was to become a definitive book about the 1948 election called "Jumbos and Jackasses," and my dad got him to help me with my presentation with inside info. not all of which was in the book. My history teacher, a crusty old Englishman who did not suffer Southerners lightly, was visibly impressed and gave me my only high grade for the year on it. I had a great time relating Truman's wit, and it showed through. This guy delighted in failing a few students each year, and making them take summer make-up courses before they could graduate, so this was not a little deal.

[FakeNoose]

38. Cool story!

I'll bet you learned a lot while doing that project.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

37. Robert McCormick, the publisher and editor of the Chicago Tribune

Loathed Truman, just as he had loathed FDR. The early returns from the East Coast showed Dewey ahead, and he went with that headline (which is what he hoped would happen) despite his people telling him he should wait for the later returns.

[zentrum]

21. Wow.

[murielm99]

22. America needs you, Harry Truman.

[CentralMass]

27. ...

[Niagara]

23. K&R

It's sad that the mentality of the republican party is the same that it was 70 years ago.

[DFW]

29. There is much to that.

Like they view the ultra-rich televangelists who convince their impoverished donors to keep giving them money: "he looks like he's living in heaven with all his fancy clothes, cars, houses and private planes. Maybe if I donate enough, I'll get into heaven, too."

[Midnight Writer]

26. Harry didn't giv'm hell. He just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

[DFW]

30. There is not a word of this quote that does not apply today.

It describes every single Republican governor, Senator, House member, and appointed judge.

Thoroughly and accurately.

[BigmanPigman]

31. Perfect summary, but I want to know WHY

anyone would want to be one of them? That accurate description of the GOP is basically a very big insult to the GOP and their lack of character. Why would anyone with an ounce of self respect want to be in a group of greedy, inhumane asses? Are they proud be be cruel, heartless, selfish, uncaring and unfair?

[MicaelS]

35. "As long as I have mine"..

"The hell with everyone else. Government should only help when I need help. Otherwise it is too intrusive."

They really DO NOT care about anyone else. THAT explains it all.

[erronis]

42. Echoing BigmanPigman - Why?

I think it is hard for me and probably most of us to understand how somebody can be so selfish and unethical. Don't the parents, schools, even churches teach a modicum of caring? Is this a difference in brain wiring or is it brain washing?

I don't know and I'll go to my grave mystified by the apparent evil of some people.

[MicaelS]

44. You inspired me to explain why.

Read my long post over here.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211905005

Thanks for the inspiration.

[raccoon]

33. I'm beginning to appreciate Truman more these days. Nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

34. RepubliCONs bought the best government they could. USA is numerically Democratic. . . . nt

[MarianJack]

39. Give'em Hell, Harry!

RESIST!

[randr]

40. If only we could return to those thrilling days

when Democrats showed up to the fight and laid the enemy low with just the truth.
The new class in Congress may just be willing to step up.

[joe_stampingbull]

41. Truman: "The buck stops here."

The Orange Ogre: "The buck stops everywhere."

[BlueJac]

43. SOOOO true Harry!!

[TomSlick]

46. God's truth!

[Grins]

47. A better Truman quote...

"Wages and salaries in this country have increased from $29 billion in 1933 to more than $128 billion in 1947. That’s labor, and labor never had but one friend in politics and that is the Democratic Party and Franklin D. Roosevelt. And I say to labor what I have said to the farmers: they are the most ungrateful people in the world if they pass the Democratic Party by this year." - Harry S. Truman, Democratic National Convention, July 15 1948.

Or any year!

After Obama saved the auto industry in 2010, voters IN MICHIGAN voted for the Republicans in the mid-term election. FU Michigan.

And the same for the farm states.

[red dog 1]

48. K&R

Give 'em hell, Harry!

Go back to hell, Donald!