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To: presidio9
First, I have never attacked Ronald Reagan.

What doesn't make sense is you repeating about Reagan signing a 1967 bill and thinking that we didn't know about it when we were voting for him twice for president, and you saying that it would give you second thoughts today, as though you only recently learned of it. Haven't you known about that bill since 1967?

As far as whether you have been attacking Reagan on this thread, what do you make of post 190?

Oh, and quit repeatedly dragging in other threads, and making the bizarre personal insults.

245 posted on 01/09/2015 7:25:49 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: ansel12
Here's what I took from post 190, Ansell. It was JimRob's polite way of calling you a tar baby. It was good advice, but I really am trying to help. I have known Jim on this website for fifteen years. If he thought that I was attacking Ronald Reagan, I can assure you that he would not be so cryptic.

You seem to be struggling with the concept of the different political circumstances that Reagan would face today. I will expand, and perhaps it will help you to understand:

You do realize that Ronald Reagan is no long with us, right? And you also realize that even if he were still alive (but presumably not 103 years old), the 22nd Amendment would disqualify him from running, right?

It should therefore be common sense that we are dealing with a hypothetical candidate with the same track record as Reagan had when he ran in 1980. Not the man himself.

In 2016 it would be very difficult for an otherwise conservative candidate to win the Republican nomination for president if he had previously signed an abortion bill into law as a state governor. This is not a conclusion that should have an argument.

That is not to say that a similar candidate could not run to the right and win the nomination anyway, as we have seen with Mitt Romney. But Romney is a very different politician. And Reagan was a very different type of man.

Now, you can keep this up if you like, but as far as I'm concerned, you are embarrassing yourself. You stalked me onto this thread, and you are making yourself look bad without my help.

It is not rational behavior, and that is why I worry about you.

260 posted on 01/09/2015 7:45:10 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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