Fat Teddy no JFK

For some odd reason JFK remains a hero to the American left. Odd because, JFK passed the largest one-time tax reduction of the marginal income tax rate in history. He proposed reducing the top marginal rate from 91% to 65% and capital gains from 25% to 19%. He used and threatened the use of unilateral and preemptive military action and brought the world to the brink of nuclear war when he felt that the security of the US was threatened (Cuba [missile crisis & Bay of Pigs], Vietnam and “Bear any burden” speech). He dreamt of an America where we asked what we could do for our country not what kind of free medical care America owed us.

How do liberals square their near idolization of JFK and his policies with all of their wackiness of today? Shouldn’t they be maligning JFK for a tax policy that turned its back on the poor while offering tax breaks only to the rich? Shouldn’t they be condemning JFK’s administration for its unilateral, preemptive and utterly inept attack of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs? Shouldn’t they be reeling at the thought of JFK nearly destroying the world just because the Soviet Union wanted to put some missiles in Cuba? Shouldn’t they be as critical of JFK’s “Bear any Burden” speech which was every bit as much outside the mainstream realpolitik at the time as President Bush’s liberty speech is today?

How do liberals of today hold JFK and his brother Fat Teddy simultaneously in such high esteem? They could not be more different. What would JFK say to Fat Teddy about supporting America’s enemies in a time of war? Would JFK have led the once great Democrat party away from policies and candidates that support abortion on demand including the gruesome practice of partial birth abortion? What would he have to say about gay marriage? Would JFK support the removal of every vestige of God from the public square? Would JFK have shared the presidential box at the Democrat Convention with a blame America first lunatic such as Michael Moore?

JFK’s advice to Fat Teddy, likely would be, “Aaah, Teddy you need to aaah, sobeah up and, aaah, shut up. Aaah, not necessarily in that owder.”