CSPAN: 1948 Thomas Dewey Republican Convention Acceptance Speech

Source:CSPAN- Governor Thomas E. Dewey (Republican, New York) 1948 Republican nominee for President.

"1948 Thomas Dewey Republican Convention Acceptance Speech

June 24, 1948. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania." 

From Kansas Politics

This is part of Governor Dewey's 1948 RNC acceptance speech:

"To me, to be a Republican in this hour is to dedicate one's life to the freedom of men. As long as the world is half free and half slave, we must peacefully labor to help men everywhere to achieve liberty.

We have declared our goal to be a strong and free America in a free world of free men—free to speak their own minds, free to develop new ideas, free to publish whatever they believe, free to move from place to place, free to choose their occupations, free to enjoy and to save and to use the fruits of their labor, and free to worship God, each according to his own concept of His grace and His mercy.

When these rights are secure in this world of ours, the permanent ideals of the Republican Party shall have been realized.

The ideals of the American people are the ideals of the Republican Party. We have tonight, and in these days which preceded, here in Philadelphia lighted a beacon, in this cradle of our own independence. We have lighted a beacon to give eternal hope that men may live in liberty with human dignity and before God, and loving Him, stand erect and free."

From The Presidency

From what I wrote about Tom Dewey last week: 

"I think to understand someone like Tom Dewey's politics, you also have to understand the politics of the Republican Party back in the 1940s and 50s. And not just in New York, but the entire country as well. 

In Tom Dewey's time, being a Republican was about being in favor of the rule of law, strong national security, strong economy that benefited both workers and management, the U.S. Constitution, equal rights, equal justice, individual rights for everyone. That was what the Republican Party by en-large, before Richard Nixon's silent majority movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, that was made up of Dixiecrat Democrats who moved into the Republican Party in the 1960s and 70s. " 

From The New Democrat

I give you part of Tom Dewey's speech here, because I want to give you an idea of how different the Republican Party of the late 1940s and really into the 1950s and perhaps even 1960s, when they really were the Grand Ole Party, a party that I probably could've been a member of back then, ideologically and how the MAGA Party (which is supposed to be the Republican Party today) is today. 

Back then, when talking about religion and government, you didn't hear people like Mike Flynn and Jack Posobiec, say that for America to be a nation under god, we can only have one religion. Or that we need to replace American democracy and the Constitution, with their interpretation of the Bible. And we need to become a Christian Nationalist State, instead of the federal liberal democratic republic that we are today. 

I don't mention any of these things to sound partisan, or sound like I hate Republicans, or I hate the Republican Party. I do hate the MAGA movement and what it stands for. I mention these things to point out that what's supposed to pass as the Republican Party today, is not even Republican, let alone conservative. 

The MAGA Party doesn't even believe in Republicanism, let alone conserving the American Republic. They believe in what they call Christian Nationalism or Trumpism. Which is very anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-constitutional, and even Un-American. At least when you consider what they believe in and how their values goes against almost everything that America is supposed to stand for. As the great Ronald Reagan said: "The city on the shinning hill." 

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