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Rupert Murdoch and his Wall Street Journal editorialists warns us that Mitt can easily be a John Kerry, a Michael  Dukakis, or even a Thomas Dewey redux….with Mitt snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
 
The 1948 POTUS race was a milestone; the opening salvo in the death watch of the FDR New Deal coalition.
 
Political junkies and historians know the 1948 details.
 
FDR forced Henry Wallace out of the VP office; and took Truman in 1944. Wallace was too “radical” in the eyes of the ruling elites.
Truman, a cypher,  mediocre,  mobbed-up Missouri Senator was safer.
 
By 1948, the New Deal Dem. coalition was unraveling.
The Cold War had solidified.
The combination of Stalin’s move to harden his one-party empire in Eastern Europe; and our recruitment of former Nazies into the new CIA had hardened the Cold War rivalry.
 
Wallace, and other progressives, broke from Truman; and Wallace ran as the anti-Cold War independent  POTUS candidate in 1948.
 
The Southern Dem. segregationists believed that Truman , and the Hubert Humphreyites, would destroy their Southern power base built on racial de jure apartheid.
 
FDR never really threatened the South,  or the segregationists controlling Congress.
His wife Eleanor constantly prodded him to break down the Southern apartheid.
 FDR got tired of her harangues; and built the Val-Kill Cottage  on the Hudson FDR estate to keep Eleanor away from him.
 
By 1948, the Southern segregationists ran SC Senator Strom Thurman as POTUS.
 
With Wallace to the left of him; and Thurman to the right, Truman was in deep dodo by 1948.
 
The GOP nominated Tom Dewey, the guy who looked like the groom on the wedding cake.
More seriously, Dewey was the NE financial network’s candidate; the front-man for the Rockefeller, Morgan and Dulles brothers legal-financial elite.
Their interest was to oppose the GOP mid-western isolationist wing; and engage in the Cold war.
Their control of the GOP continued through Ike, Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller; and it took until 1964, and the Goldwater forces, to dislodge their hold on the GOP.
 
Truman   gave the GOP Congress “hell” in 1948, proclaiming they were the do-nothings of the political class.
And he triumphed.
 
Will Mitt be the Dewey of 2012  ?
Murdoch and his right-wing empire believe so!

Give those Kochs hell!