The contested 1920 GOP convention offers lessons for today

By Rick Moran

Historian Ron Radosh has written an excellent article for The Observer that looks at the contested GOP convention of 1920, where a superior delegate strategy by candidate Warren Harding allowed him to capture the nomination on the 10th ballot. Harding's campaign manager, Harry Daugherty, developed a plan that would deny the two frontrunners, General Leonard Wood and Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, a majority, while making Harding everyone's second or third choice......

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My Take - I'm not a fan of Ron Radosh for a couple of reasons.  First he an ex-commie - and I mean a real member of the Communist Party of the United States of America - and secondly he's not someone whose views I can trust after he attacked Diana West and her book American Betrayal and in the manner he did it. As time went by a number of people who researched and wrote extensively on the subject or experienced the realities of what she wrote came forward to defend her. Radosh had been very vocal and unpleasant with his attacks at the beginning but the tide turned against him.  Historians in the universities are leftists and blind leftophiles, and it's pretty clear FDR knew he was surrounding himself with traitors, ergo, FDR was also guilty of treason - none of which Radosh and his ilk will accept irrespective of how much information demonstrates it's so. 

When Ann Coulter attacked him for his position on West's work Radosh wrote he "is appalled at the damage Coulter has done to the work he and many others have painstakingly done over the years."  And that works was?  The work he and his ilk have done over the years was to painstakingly hide the truth about FDR, Joe McCarthy and just how badly communists, socialists and fellow travelers - all agents in one way or another for Joe Stalin and the Soviet Union - infiltrated all the agencies of the federal government, including the OSS, which became the CIA,.  An agency these traitors continued to infest.  That doesn't even count how badly these traitors infested America's universities, newspapers, Hollywood, all media entertainment and the unions. 

 But - if the article the author cites proves worthwhile it proves only one thing- even a blind monkey can find a coconut once in a while. 

Oh, one more thing - I only posted the link to this article so I could rant against Radosh.  I really don't like him!  Former American commies, who were party members, but were born and raised in American just aren't to be trusted.  And I put Horowitz in the same category and for the same reason.  He came out in favor of West's book - that how I found it - and then apparently he talked to his buddy Radosh and then attacked West.  Ex-commies are at best leaky vessels as allies.