I am still waiting to hear what the John Birch society said that was so bad? I mean I hate republicans with a burning passion but I usually look for a reason for this? I have yet to hate against JBS regardless of what some 90 year old woman in a rocking chair says about communist conspiracy theories...so can you please cite some sources or at least some quotes?
I am sure I am not the only one confused, so if you could provide some sources that would be excellent. As an example, If you could provide such a thing as credible information with a top leader of this organization talking about a communist conspiracy theory that would be fantastic.
I will admit I am doubtful such a thing exists as I have never seen credible evidence proving such.
Welch wrote in a widely circulated statement,
The Politician, "Could
Eisenhower really be simply a smart politician, entirely without principles and hungry for glory, who is only the tool of the Communists? The answer is yes." He went on. "With regard to ... Eisenhower, it is difficult to avoid raising the question of deliberate treason."[SUP]
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The controversial paragraph was removed before final publication of
The Politician.[SUP]
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The sensationalism of Welch's charges against Eisenhower prompted several conservatives and Republicans, most prominently Goldwater and the intellectuals of
William F. Buckley's circle, to renounce outright or quietly shun the group. Buckley, an early friend and admirer of Welch, regarded his accusations against Eisenhower as "paranoid and idiotic libels" and attempted unsuccessfully to purge Welch from the Birch Society.[SUP]
[47][/SUP] From then on Buckley, who was editor of
National Review, became the leading intellectual spokesman and organizer of the anti-Bircher conservatives.[SUP]
[48][/SUP] In fact, Buckley's biographer
John B. Judis wrote that "Buckley was beginning to worry that with the John Birch Society growing so rapidly, the right-wing upsurge in the country would take an ugly, even
Fascist turn rather than leading toward the kind of conservatism
National Review had promoted."[SUP]
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