[lbo-talk] negligible and stupid

[Mark Bennett]

Hell, following on the heels of Pat Brown, Reagan was a fairly progressive
governor.  I still have a small paperback volume stashed away someplace that
was published in 1967, and which described Reagan's first year as governor
as a total disaster for California Conservatives.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Steven L. Robinson <srobin21 at comcast.net>wrote:


> Must not forget California. For decades it elected relatively liberal
> Republicans like Hiram Johnson, Earl Warren and Tom Kuchel. Most of the
> liberal Republicans disappeared from this state, at least, in the early
> 1980s. SR
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> On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:03:49 -0600 Carrol Cox writes:
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> The GOP was the long time political home of
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> Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr.,
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> who was for his day certainly considered to be
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> quite a progressive.  In 1924 he ran for president
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> as a third-party candidate on the Progressive Party
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> ticket, and enjoyed the support the early CPUSA.
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> In places like Wisconsin and Minnesota the GOP
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> was for a long time quite progessive,
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