Looks like some moderates are worried the Dem nominee won't line up with them ideologically.

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40. JFK

1. A tax-cutter who championed across-the-board, top-to-bottom reductions in corporate tax rates.

2. Suspicious of welfare, "“I do not believe that Washington should do for the people what they can do for themselves through local and private effort."

3. A Cold War anticommunist who aggressively increased military spending.

“I am not a liberal at all,” Kennedy once told the Saturday Evening Post. “I’m not comfortable with those people.” Journalist and JFK insider Ben Bradlee confirmed it. “He hated the liberals.”

“When young, wealthy, and conservative John Fitzgerald Kennedy announced for Congress, many people wondered why,” it began. “Hardly a liberal even by his own standards, Kennedy is mainly concerned by what appears to him as the coming struggle between collectivism and capitalism. In speech after speech he charges his audience ‘to battle for the old ideas with the same enthusiasm that people have for new ideas.’ ”

Eleanor Roosevelt was asked in a TV interview whom she would support if forced to choose “between a conservative Democrat like Kennedy and a liberal Republican [like] Rockefeller.” FDR’s widow, then as now a progressive icon, answered that she would do all she could to make sure Kennedy wouldn’t be the party’s nominee.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2013/10/19/would-jfk-never-liberal-still-find-home-democratic-party/ZrxV7lJYHrvWxOjXItAuZJ/story.html

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/08/the-new-new-left-is-no-new-frontier-and-jfk-was-no-liberal.html