Stealing Kennedy: Conservatives Try To Hijack The JFK Legacy, some say he'd be in the Tea Party

[wyldwolf]

As the nation mourns the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, conservative media figures have attempted to appropriate his legacy and attribute to the beloved former president their conservative ideas and positions. This effort runs counter to Kennedy's stated positions, speeches, and other historical facts surrounding his presidency.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/11/22/stealing-kennedy-conservatives-try-to-hijack-th/197020

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

1. Just another expression...

...of their alternative reality. It must be so much work.

[spanone]

2. i love it when they demonstrate their sheer ignorance

[Initech]

3. Bill Maher is right: they live in a bubble.

[Journeyman]

4. Even if he were alive and inflicted with dementia, his family wouldn't let him be a teabagger. . .

Easy to test this delusion: How many in the Kennedy Clan are associated with conservative ideals today?

[The Magistrate]

5. That Would Be News To The John Birch Society, Sir

Largely financed by the same Koch family which bankrolls the tea-baggers today.

To right-wingers of the time, there was simply no end to President Kennedy's crimes; he was a treasonous appeaser of Communism....

[JHB]

6. Same thing they've done with MLK. And Jesus, for that matter.

Cherry-pick the bits they like, ignore the larger body that runs squarely against their favorite views.

[CanonRay]

7. Those people are way too stupid for JFK to deal with

not to mention racist.

[graywarrior]

8. They seem to have a lot of wet dreams, don't they.

[rainy]

9. They tried to do this with John Lenin

A few years ago.

[former9thward]

10. To go back 50 years of history and say what someone would be is beyond silly.

Kennedy was certainly no liberal as the word is now used. But he was an establishment Democrat and there is no doubt he would be one today if transported in a time machine. It is like trying to say what Lincoln, Washington or Jefferson would be. It is impossible. The country has changed and no one knows how those people would react if they saw modern America.

[tina tron]

11. Here is what I don't get

Many people who are into the JFK conspiracy theories are also rabid rightwingers. If Kennedy had lived they would have hated him.

[Historic NY]

12. They are nuts...