Posted on 02/20/2015 5:16:26 AM PST by cotton1706
Approximately once every four years, the media establishment and certain "moderates" in the Republican Party decide to destroy a conservative candidate. They sharpen their blades and their tongues and they go into action, armed with the conviction that the vitriol of their pens will wither away the candidate's reputation and potential.
Very often, it works.
After all, what would you think of a candidate the Baltimore Sun calls a symptom of "the right, the radical right, which cherishes notions that often are too simple, too negative and too risky"? What would you believe about a candidate one liberal columnist calls "patently ridiculous Š frivolous"? What would you say about a candidate one writer says is incapable of "accuracy or depth"? A candidate who "cater[s] to the fears and anxieties of the great middle class"?
Would you back a candidate one New York Times columnist calls "primitive"? That The New Republic calls an "ignoramus"? That The Nation labels "the most dangerous person ever to come this close to the presidency"?
Would you support a candidate even moderate Republicans despise? A candidate whose simple legitimization by the party constitutes a "political dance macabre Š the dance of death for the Republican Party"? A candidate described by a moderate competitor as plagued with a "penchant for offering simplistic solutions to hideously complex problems"?
Could you ever support such a candidate?
Yes. You did. In 1976, 1980 and 1984. Because the candidate described in each of the above quotes is not the much-maligned current media punching bag Sarah Palin. It's Ronald Wilson Reagan.
Reagan was seen as a rube, a throwback to a nostalgically nonexistent past, an empty vessel spouting radical propaganda. He was stupid, incompetent, dangerous.
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They’re trying it again with Senator Ted Cruz, which is amazing. He graduated with highest honors from what many consider to be the best law school in America, if not the world, and received a bachelors with high honors from Princeton. But many of the LIVs will buy it, just as they did with President Reagan and Governor Palin, both of whom graduated college.
Now, what does any one expect? All of these “JOURNALISTS???” came from JOURNALISTS??? schools being run by teachers that came from the “HIPPIE 60’s”, the majority of them were raised as LIBERALS, SOCIALISTS and COMMUNIST parents. Where most of us were working to put food in our mouths, these people were planning on the TAKE OVER our educational system. They’ve done their jobs well.
Cruz has college, but they're doing the same to Scott Walker, who didn't complete college—but instead fully demonstrated how to beat back the Progs in Wisconsin.
I figured it was about Reagan before I got to his name.
That’s what they do all the time. Tear down the one most able to get the country back on track. They either do that, or ignore the person completely.
Then the next thing they do is christen a candidate early on, then when that person gets the party nomination, they begin to put out a mass of articles daily about the person, and no stone is left unturned, including about the kids.
What made Reagan appealing enough to be elected was that he appeared to always be THE true grown-up in the room.
The Media and the GOPe try and usually succeed. Even here on Free Republic, some spew quotes straight out of Mother Jones about every candidate except their guy.
Don’t believe me? Just ask a question about the qualifications of any one of the ninetyleven Republican hopefuls. You will be called silly names and any candidate you support will be called everything except a Child of God.
As proof, just watch the comments on this column.
Par for the course, I say.
When DON’T they?
Yup. Don’t forget the accusation you secretly want the Democrat to win.
All I've seen are anecdotal reports.
They can’t get away with “stupid” re: Cruz, so they just go with crazy, mean and evil.
McStupid is the GOP ring leader against Cruz.
Good Lord, how did we survive the founding of our country with such incompetence at the helm?
The moderate Republican is only moderate until he wins the nomination. Then he s a right wing whacko.
This is right. No one can listen to Reagan’s “Time for Choosing Speech” and not understand that he would fit right in with what the leftwing press call the “radical extreme tea party”. Those few moderates that try to say that even Reagan wouldn’t be welcome today by conservatives are just playing a game so as to get us to apply no standards and require no principles from those who seek the nomination as if being super rich and well connected should be the only thing that matters.
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