Anyone know much about OH Gov. Taft's family?

[shawn703]

I know he comes from a long line of politicians, and I think most if not all were Republicans - but anyone know if any of his ancestors would be spinning in their graves if they knew about the crap he's pulled as governor?

[WI_DEM]

1. Yes

His family includes President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft and "Mr. Republican" Sen. Robert Taft. Long line of politicians.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Taft trivia

1. His grandfather was William Howard Taft. Taft didn't have his heart set on being president, but his wife, Helen did. She kept at him until he ran after being Teddy Roosevelt's vice president. During Taft's tenure in the White House, the first indoor bathtub was installed. His wife, Helen, suffered a stroke, and Taft had to painstakingly teach her how to talk again. After his presidency, he finally achieved his personal goal: he was appointed and voted to be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Taft is the sole Unitarian to hold the office of the presidency.

2. His father, "Mr. Republican" was seen as a shoe-in for the republican presidential primary against Thomas Dewey, the governor of NY, in 1948. But Taft was a little too candid with his opinions. As mentioned in John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, at a luncheon speech in 1946, Taft was politically incorrect (and hence, courageous in some circles) for criticizing the legitimacy of the Nuremberg Trials for the Nazi officers on war crimes. Taft said it was "Un-American" to hold trials on an ex-post facto basis (i.e., there were not any statutes existing on the books at the time the crimes took place, thus fabricating a reason to hold a trial in order to hold the Nazis in account and meaning execution, not prison). That bit of sincerity cost Taft the primary, the presidency, and return phonecalls from his party.

[YOY]

2. Hooray for legacies...this is where they lead to!

:eyes:

[johnnie]

3. Not just them

Taft has been the worse governor this state has ever seen. Shit, Benedict Arnold would be spinning in his grave if he saw what that shit-for-brains has done.

[kaygore]

4. Kinda interesting connection

The Tafts also have a long history with Yale (and it is the same family, by the way). So much history, in fact, that when Kingman Brewster, president of Yale University, was causing waves during the Viet Nam era and donations and financial support from the old guard was going down the tubes, the University asked Horace Taft, then dean of the science department, to take over as president of Yale College (the undergraduate part of Yale as opposed to the whole university of which Brewster was president). The university board put Taft in that position to keep the old guard on board and to provide a less liberal face to all those who did their undergraduate at Yale.

So, as there is a Yale connection with the present evil empire in Washington, so the evil Empire has its tentacles elsewhere through the Yale connection.

I'm not sure that I would let my kid go to Yale!

[kaygore]

5. Many relatives in Skull and Bones!

http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/bones.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Taft

[LittleWoman]

7. Bob Taft is

living proof of the watering down of the gene pool. The nicest name I have ever called him is governor doofus. The best thing he can do is hang around until the 2006 election so he can be the stinking albatross around the neck of the republican party.