Why do cons keep trying to claim JFK as one of their own?

Question

First of all, when JFK made that tax cut speech to the Economic Club of NY, he said he felt like a secularist in front of the church pulpit talking about seperation of church and state. These were not his people.
http://www.antiauthority.com/propaganda/speech_to_the_economic_club_of_ny-jfk-19621214.asp

Second of all, the JFK/LBJ tax cut was next to nonexistent. Tax rates were lowered in 1964, but tax loop holes were closed resulting in an actual net increase in tax revenues.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2007/sheets/hist01z3.xls

OTHER THEN THAT, JFK WAS A TOTAL LIBERAL

- He was endorsed by the New York Liberal Party for president. In the acceptance speech he

details why he is a liberal.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/35_kennedy/psources/ps_nyliberal.html

- He was a strong supporter of the separation of church and state.
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/40/story_4080_1.html

- He declared war against the "common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself" in his 1961 inaguration speech.
http://www.jfk-info.com/jfkinaug.htm

- He created the Peace Corps to help developing nations on education, farming, health care, and construction. Today's cons make fun of Kucinish for wanting to create the Peace Department.

- He created the Alliance for Progress that promised 20 billion within one decade for developing nations in central and southern America on the condition that they create progressive economic policies that included democratic governments (no coup d'etats), land reform, a more equitable income distribution, and taxing "those who have most." He said, "those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable."

- He did not pre-emptively attack Cuba over the Cuban Missile Crisis which could have resulted in a nuclear war. Instead, he negotiated with the Soviet Union and got the ballistic missiles removed in exchange for America removing its missiles in Turkey.

- He signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 along with the Soviet Union and United Kingdom.

- He had his own version of FDR's New Deal program called "New Frontier". It ambitiously promised federal funding for education, medical care for the elderly, and government intervention to halt the recession. Kennedy also promised an end to racial discrimination.

mong the laws/programs passed:
--- Massive liberal federal funding (22 billion in 1960 dollars) for the Apollo Project to take man to the moon. Such an effort created rapid scientific advancement that led to a stronger economy.
--- Passed the Fair Labor Standard Act of 1961 that expanded FLSA's scope and gradually increased the minimum wage.
--- Passed the Omnibus Housing Bill of 1961 that asked for 3.19 billion (again in 1960 dollars) to provide for affordable housing for middle and low income families. In addition, the bill provided for mass transportation, urban renewal, community development, and technical assistance to local and state government. All this was to be overseen by the newly created Department of Housing and Urban Affairs
--- Passed the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 that authorized a three-year program aimed at retraining workers displaced by new technology.

--- Passed the Area Redevolopment Act of 1961 whose goal was government funding of the private sector (usually urban or rural depressed areas) in an effort to stimulate job creation. The effort also included $4.5 million per year for vocational training programs.
--- Passed the 1963 amendment to the National Defense Education Act. It included $731 million for state and local governments maintaining vocational training programs.
--- Passed the the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963, beginning a new era in federal support for mental health services.
--- Proposed the Medical Health Bill (later known as Medicare) to Congress, but congress failed to enact it.

- He was a liberal supporter of civil rights. His actions include:
--- Assigned federal marshals to protect liberal northern Freedom Riders from racist southern conservatives.
--- Sent 400 federal marshals and 3,000 federal troops to protect James Meredith, a black student, from angry white crowds and to ensure he could enroll at the University of Mississippi.
--- Intervened once again with federal marshals when Alabama Governor George Wallace refused to allow tep black students into the University of Alabama. Later that evening, he proposed legislation that would eventually become the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
--- Sent the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to Congress in June 1963, before he was assassinated. His successor, liberal LBJ signed it to law.
and

--- Created the President’s Commission on the Status of Women in 1961 to investigate questions regarding women's equality in education, the workplace, and under the law. The commission was chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt and other women's right activists.
--- Passed the Equal Pay Act of 1963, to address sex-based pay discrimination.

http://www.answers.com/topic/new-frontier

Based on the above, JFK was a TOTAL LIBERAL.

- For seperation of church state.\
- For government spending to lift people out of poverty.
- For government spending to take care of our elderly.
- For progressive economic systems in latin america
- For liberal civil rights laws
- For women's equality

THE GUY EVEN CALLS HIMSELF A LIBERAL. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT???

Answer 1

He was a true democrat...not the farce it's metamorphosed into today.

Answer 2

Kennedy was also a maverick. He warned the public about secret societies, a la Scull and Bones. And he also attempted to release America from the chock hold that powerful bankers have on this country with his Executive order 11110 which would have dismantled our illegal Federal Reserve system and would have eventually lead to the elimination of the Federal wage tax.

The Federal Reserve is a group of PRIVATE banks that print our money and lends it to us with interest. Every single dime we spend in Federal Wage taxes goes to pay that interest. Executive order 11110 gave the US Treasury the right to print money backed by our silver reserves. Eventually Kennedy’s new silver backed money would have replaced the Federal Reserve’s fiat money and would have put them out of business. THIS, I believe is what led to Kennedy’s murder. Powerful private bankers stood to lose trillions, and they just couldn’t have that.

Note that Executive order 11110 was never repealed. All it will take is a President and a group of House representatives with some balls to reinstate Kennedy’s order, and we will immediately change the course of American history, and will once again be on the road to freedom.
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Answer 3

I don't claim that he was a Rep, however, I do understand the drastic change that the Dem party has went under in recent decades. The Dems of the JFK era are NOT the same as many Dems are today. That is probably he point people are making.

Answer 4

Send us another like him and perhaps we will talk. Ronald Reagan was a Democrat at that time too. He soon saw the Commie take over and became the God Of the Republicans. Jack would never had stood for this mob!@

Answer 5

JFK has little to nothing in common with the modern Democratic Party.

Therefore, it is confusing to call him a Democrat, because when people hear that term, they think of the Quasi-Socalistic party now, instead of the New Deal Democrats of 40 years ago.

Answer 6

JFK supported Hitler.

Answer 7

I don't. But he was no modern Lib, either. Neither was Jefferson, or any other framer. Neither was FDR.

So who's kidding who, here?

Answer 8

I was not aware incarcerated prisoners were making that assumption, I do believe he was an American if I am not mistaken, so that makes him Americas President.

Answer 9

Because they would like to have an intelligent politician associated with their party instead of movie stars and cowboys.

Answer 10

All that text to tell us something 99% of America already knows. Anyone claiming Kennedy was a conservative needs to remove their head from their rectum.