Peter T. King Quotes
Newt Gingrich is road kill on the highway of American politics.
Peter T. King, U. S. Congressman (Republican, NY), The Weekly Standard, March 31, 1997
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Agnew had to resign as vice president when he was convicted to taking bribes and committing fraud as the Governor of Maryland.
Kennedy hated Roosevelt who had forced him to resign as the U. S. Ambassador to England. Kennedy was an admirer of Mussolini and Hitler. He had allied himself with the part of the British aristocracy that was pro Fascist and opposed Winston Churchill and the democratic element in Britain. Kennedy had opposed aid to Britain to fight Hitler and advised all who would listen that Britain could and would not stand up to Germany. Roosevelt’s support of Britain with Lend Lease and other means proved Kennedy wrong pragmatically and Kennedy’s own statements had forever proved him wrong morally. Although Kennedy opposed our entry in WWII, his sons did not. His oldest son volunteered for a very dangerous mission and was killed. Kennedy blamed his death on Roosevelt {616651} and forever after slandered FDR whenever he got a chance until his son Jack got into politics when his ambition for his son outweighed his hatred.
This quotation shows American tolerance and freedom of speech even for our head of state.
Ickes was a patrician Republican who was an extremely effective politician and administrator. FDR had invited Ickes to join the New Deal Cabinet. He accepted and was the New Deal’s best and most enthusiastic salesman other than President Roosevelt himself. He also campaigned vigorously for FDR. In this case Wendell Willkie, another patrician Republican, a businessman with almost no political experience sought and won the Republican nomination. Ickes defined and framed Willkie immediately with his own classic sarcastic wit.
In 2012, the Republican party had shifted to the right and was split between two factions. None of the 4 leading candidates had the support of a majority of the activist Republicans who vote in Primary elections. The then started to vie with each other for the most conservative elements of the party and did so by attacking the other candidates, making moral pronouncements and attacking President Obama. None of them offered any positive programs or solutions to the problems they claimed existed, and the attacks on the others were always that they were “really not conservative” and “could not get elected.” The result was that all the candidates negatives rose.
The party was officially still in existence but it was becoming more irrelevant each year.
The Republicans and the George W. Bush Administration were extremely unpopular. The 2008 Great Recession Meltdown had not yet taken place and many Republicans were worried about the 2008 elections while others were in denial. They had reason to be, The Democrats won the Congress and the Presidency.
Peter Thomas King is a former American politician who represented New York in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2021. He represented a South Shore Long Island district that includes parts of Nassau County and Suffolk County and was numbered as the 3rd and later the 2nd district.
