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Robert Welch describes Ike's silent treachery of 1954, which only grew worse in subsequent Congressional elections, and peaked during the 1958 mid-term elections in which the GOP lost an additional 49 seats in the House, and 14 in the Senate. Welch:
'Nor can there be any slightest question about the disruption of, and damage to, the party being intentional. Eisenhower not only refused to do any campaigning for, or to give any White House moral support to, the Republican Senatorial and Congressional candidates โ he left their campaigns permanently disorganized through his deliberate delaying tactics with regard to his expected support, which was never forthcoming. Then, at the very last minute, he went through face-saving motions, of which a high-school politician would have been ashamed, with his fantastically childish scheme of chain telephone calls.' (6)
'Delaying tactics,' eh? Just like the World War II delays which got so many Americans killed while preserving Eastern Europe for Stalin! The final paradoxical results of Eisenhower's sabotage were truly astonishing โ all the more so when we consider how popular Ike had remained from start to finish of his 8 year reign of ruin. Here are the final "before and after" numbers:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
1952: 221 Republicans and 213 Democrats = R +8
1958: 153 Republicans and 283 Democrats = D +130
SENATE
1952: 49 Republicans and 47 Democrats = R +2
1958: 35 Republicans and 65 Democrats = D +30
The engineered loss of the Senate in 1954 was the event which โ more so than the "censure" vote โ killed the investigative hearings of the late great and falsely maligned Senator Joe McCarthy. Now a minority, the Republicans had to yield the chairmanship of the investigative committee to a Democrat, as the despicable Lyndon Baines Johnson became the Senate Majority Leader.
As shocking as the statistics are, there is more to the numbers than meets the eye. You see, many of the Senate and House Republicans who did manage to survive the Eisenhower purge were "modern Republicans" โ today known as "RINO's" (Republican in Name Only). And most of the incoming Democrats who replaced them were of the extremist Marxist variety. Their dominance would shape the leftward course of America's political, economic and cultural decline for decades to come.
There can be no doubt that what happened to the GOP was an "inside job." Eight years of Ike forever killed the once conservative Republican Party, just as it had the conservative majority of the Supreme Courtโฆ by design. No bloody wonder Democrat Sulzberger's New York Slimes (cough cough) and Democrat Meyer's Washington Compost (cough cough) endorsed Ike the "Republican" over Democrat Adlai Stevenson โ twice.
The Democrat Party, which had been on the brink of destruction just six years earlier, knocked out the Republican Party in an epic rout. Yet 'Republican' Eisenhower always remained popular. The result pleased Eisenhower and Democrat Senate Leader Lyndon B. Johnson very much.