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I love Ronald Reagan, but it has been a long time since he was president. The GOP is in danger of becoming like the Democrats were in the 70’s and 80’s - left with little more than to babble about the long departed FDR, who was little more than a distant memory from the past for the younger generations.

I love Ronald Reagan, but it has been a long time since he was president. The GOP is in danger of becoming like the Democrats were in the 70’s and 80’s

Okay I'm a Reagan fan as well but our party (Republican/Conservative) needs to be more than just Ronald Reagan. I was a paleo conservative long before Ronald Reagan. We need to have a Republican Party with a firm commitment to conservative principles. Yes we need a larger tent and we also need to bring in the economic conservatives. Many of these people have more in common with the conservatives than with the liberals. They should vote Republican.

We have to bring in these people or we will lose elections. This is controversial. Many don't like people who have even one view not consistent with their own. We have to FACE THE FACT that demographics is not on our side in this struggle. If someone is 80-90% Conservative, that should be adequate. Let's not scare some of the Libertarians away. We can fight the Abortion battle as a cultural war instead of a political war. If we win the culture war, we will de facto win the political war.

Many have attacked me on this. But ask yourself a question: In the years Ronald Reagan was president, what was actually done to curtain abortion? The answer regrettably is not much.

The problem with those who suggest we let Reagan go is that they don’t mean simply coming up with new ideas. This is so unnecessary. The Democrats never talk about letting go of FDR or JFK. Republicans prove themselves idiots when they obsess over such stupid ideas. It feeds their opposition and most of those complaining about Reagan are not real conservatives. They don’t believe in smaller government they instead have adopted the idea of of “efficient government”. They ignore the increasing costs of social liberalism while urging we distance ourselves from social conservatism. Down the line those who urge the getting beyond Reagan seem intent on making the GOP a clone of the Democrat party just a little more classy a clone but still a clone. One that is more comfortable pushing for nationalized health care, one that is comfortable feeding the Educracy, and one that is comfortable running on intentions and producing zero results.

The Dems still "babble" about FDR along with JFK. They have firmly placed them into the American pantheon of great leaders--at least that's what the liberal historians have written and brainwashed our youth.

Reagan was President just 20 years ago. His principles still obtain.

FYI: The Dems controlled the House in the 70s and 80s. In fact they controlled it for 60 out of 64 years up to 1995, including a 40 years straight dominance, and they were almost as dominant in the Senate. The FDR legacy was very powerful and Obama is trying to go one better by making the Dems the permanent majority party.

I love Ronald Reagan, but it has been a long time since he was president.

Reagan's principles are enduring.

Government is the problem, not the solution.

People do better when they keep their money and make decisions for themselves, not some central bureaucrat.

Peace through strength.

Trust but verify.

I can go on, and on, and on. The fact is if we'd have simply stuck with the above - and nothing else - this country wouldn't be in the mess it's in today run by a third-world despot's half-brother (aka Barack Hussein Obama.)