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Ironically, the White House occupant who best represented the views that now dominate the American right was a Democrat: Grover Cleveland, the only Democratic president from the eve of Civil War to Woodrow Wilson in 1912. When Cleveland, a rotund New Yorker, was first elected in 1884, his party’s base was remarkably similar to that of the GOP today: white Southerners from all classes and white workers everywhere who did not belong to unions. The Democrat’s standard-bearer ALSO expressed doubt that any “sensible and responsible” woman would ever want to vote.

As President, Cleveland took several opportunities to denounce those Americans who, as Mitt Romney expressed it to his donors in Boca Raton, expected the government to provide them with the necessities of life. In 1887, he vetoed a bill that earmarked $10,000 to buy seed for drought-stricken farmers in Texas. “I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution,” Cleveland explained in his veto message, “I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.” He then added a pithy note of pedagogy: “The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.”

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice
Writng in The New Republic, historian Michael Kazin draws an interesting (imho) parallel between Mitt Romney and conservative Deomcrat Grover Cleveland, best known for being the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms.

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Writng in The New Republic, historian Michael Kazin draws an interesting (imho) parallel between Mitt Romney and conservative Deomcrat Grover Cleveland, best known for being the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms.

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Ironically, the White House occupant who best represented the views that now dominate the American right was a Democrat: Grover Cleveland, the only Democratic president from the eve of Civil War to Woodrow Wilson in 1912. When Cleveland, a rotund New Yorker, was first elected in 1884, his party’s base was remarkably similar to that of the GOP today: white Southerners from all classes and white workers everywhere who did not belong to unions. The Democrat’s standard-bearer ALSO expressed doubt that any “sensible and responsible” woman would ever want to vote.

As President, Cleveland took several opportunities to denounce those Americans who, as Mitt Romney expressed it to his donors in Boca Raton, expected the government to provide them with the necessities of life. In 1887, he vetoed a bill that earmarked $10,000 to buy seed for drought-stricken farmers in Texas. “I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution,” Cleveland explained in his veto message, “I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.” He then added a pithy note of pedagogy: “The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.”

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Writng in The New Republic, historian Michael Kazin draws an interesting (imho) parallel between Mitt Romney and conservative Deomcrat Grover Cleveland, best known for being the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms.

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Writng in The New Republic, historian Michael Kazin draws an interesting (imho) parallel between Mitt Romney and conservative Deomcrat Grover Cleveland, best known for being the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms.

Grover fathered a bastard child when he was in Buffalo. You don't suppose that Mitt has ever been in Buffalo and ..... nahhhh, guess not.

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Writng in The New Republic, historian Michael Kazin draws an interesting (imho) parallel between Mitt Romney and conservative Deomcrat Grover Cleveland, best known for being the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms.

Grover fathered a bastard child when he was in Buffalo. You don't suppose that Mitt has ever been in Buffalo and ..... nahhhh, guess not.

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Writng in The New Republic, historian Michael Kazin draws an interesting (imho) parallel between Mitt Romney and conservative Deomcrat Grover Cleveland, best known for being the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms.

Grover fathered a bastard child when he was in Buffalo. You don't suppose that Mitt has ever been in Buffalo and ..... nahhhh, guess not.

Not only would that not surprise me at all but I want to know...was it between administrations ?

Those Texas farmers today no doubt good ole American republican farmers, would be showered in seeds from good ole Mitt...ya'know, being a good small govt., fiscal conservative n'all.

Farm subsidies have near and dear to the repub political (thus taxpayer) heart ever since a whole host of they themselves...jumped on that bandwagon. It's a real cash cow from Uncle Sam. (I have had lawyers tell me to buy some land...get a check)

Cleveland's intervention in the Pullman Strike was likely the modern confirmation that govt. exists to first serve the capital or investor class and certainly...not the working class.

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Writng in The New Republic, historian Michael Kazin draws an interesting (imho) parallel between Mitt Romney and conservative Deomcrat Grover Cleveland, best known for being the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms.

Grover fathered a bastard child when he was in Buffalo. You don't suppose that Mitt has ever been in Buffalo and ..... nahhhh, guess not.

Not only would that not surprise me at all but I want to know...was it between administrations ?

Those Texas farmers today no doubt good ole American republican farmers, would be showered in seeds from good ole Mitt...ya'know, being a good small govt., fiscal conservative n'all.

Farm subsidies have near and dear to the repub political (thus taxpayer) heart ever since a whole host of they themselves...jumped on that bandwagon. It's a real cash cow from Uncle Sam. (I have had lawyers tell me to buy some land...get a check)

Cleveland's intervention in the Pullman Strike was likely the modern confirmation that govt. exists to first serve the capital or investor class and certainly...not the working class.

A It was when he was Governor of New York.

B He broke up the Pullman strike because it halted mail shipments, much like T Rooseveltdbreaking up the coal strike because it cut off everyones heat in the winter.