That's true. Reagan is far too conservative for today's Republican Party. The elite, which foamed at the mouth to defeat him in 1980, would completely ostracize him today.
They'd say Mutt Romney was 'more electable'.
Hagel was never a member of the party of Reagan. A RINO always.
Capitulation is in the air over on the dark side.
I forget, are there any Republican primaries left where only registered Republicans get to vote?
Palin, like Reagan, “made deals with congressional Democrats, sought compromises and consensus to fix problems, and surrounded himself with moderates as well as Republican hard-liners.” So why is Palin supported and the Republicans quoted in the article not supported by the grassroots of the Republican Party.
The difference is that while both Reagan and Palin were willing to make deals and compromise, they both had core beliefs and goals that they would not compromise.
In other words, compromise for Reagan and Palin is a means to a goal. To the RINOsm compromise is the goal.
Chuck Hagel is a goof, and operated from the Arlen Specter wing of the Capitol. It a tiny wing with locked door and soft, white padding on the walls, for the record. George Voinovich was once seen there as well, accompanied by that pair of Pine Tree State loons.
JFK could never be nominated by today’s Democratic Party. He was much too fiscally conservative and a strong anti-communist.
About what you can expect from PMSNBC.
The party in Reagan’s time had moderate/liberal backstabbing republicans like Packwood, Specter, Weiker, Heinz, etc. who hated conservatives and their influence. Specter said he wasn’t voting for Bork and all the others hid behind his filthy skirt.
Good riddance to people who believe in liberalism light, who vote for every appropriation increase, tax increase, and debt ceiling increase.
I’m waiting for a companion piece to be written about how extreme today’s Democrats are.
Still waiting.
Still waiting...
I’m old enough to remember a time when a significant percentage of elected Democrats loved America and hated Communism. Nowadays they’re an endangered species. The entire party has shifted so far to the left that the list of candidates endorsed by the Communist Party is pretty much indistinguishable from the list of Democrat candidates.
sour grapes
If it’s decided to create a new party that would phase out the RINO Elitist Party I’d hope it would be the Founders Party. The name says it all.
It wasn't Reagan's Party before he was elected President either.
The good news...someday Chuck Hagel will be dead and we won’t have to listen to his ignorant rambling any more.
Hagel is a complete failure and jackass, and is either lying or completely insane. Ronald Reagan wanted to shut down entire departments. He waged a gigantic buildup of military weapons and nuclear power. He cut taxes dramatically. Idiots like Hagel are too stupid to realize when Reagan went to the table to discuss nuclear cuts, it was to gain negotiation leverage...not to disarm ourselves against a communist USSR. When he ultimately agreed to the Democrat House leadership to raise taxes slightly (a tiny percentage of his original cuts), it was in exchange for promised spending cuts.
Hagel, Simpson, Spector and the rest are some of the most damaging figure in modern political history. Add losers like McCain in the mix, and you’ll quickly see the source of most of our problems in getting good legislation in place.
Blah, blah, blah. NEXT!!!
” Hagel added that there were similar divisions in the early 1950s between Eisenhower Republicans and GOP extremists like Joe McCarthy, but the difference is, in 2012, “the extremists are winning.”
Psycho..
But I suspect the reason Republicans have had so much trouble is that there isn't really a candidate of Reagan's stature and abilities out there. If there were, he or she would prevail over the critics and become the nominee.
Hagel is on Crack. I remember Reagan. I do not believe any of our primary contenders were the Conservatives Reagan was.
He ws both a moral and a fiscal conservative. And he was principle-driven not pragmatic in his core beliefs.
The lefties absolutely despised him.
Reagan would say, "OK, I'll sign off on that!"
Today, the Democrats say, "Let's go ten miles toward statism." And the GOP responds, "No, five miles worth of statism is all we'll vote for."
So five miles worth of statism is what we get.
That's the difference between compromises that help and compromises that harm.
Mark Levin said it yesterday and I totally agree - Reagan would win the nomination in a landslide if he ran today. The GOPe would be having seizures over it too.