Posted on 02/25/2015 10:01:01 AM PST by detective
When conservatives gather Thursday for their annual confab there will be homages to Ronald Reagan everywhere. He’ll be mentioned in speeches, he’ll show up as a life-size cardboard cutout, and on posters and buttons. The event’s big dinner is in his name.
At the Conservative Political Action Conference, Reagan is king. And the many Republicans vying to be president will work feverishly to align with him. But do they?
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Still it is interesting to see how the Washington Post compares Reagan to today's Republicans.
The GOPe and ‘donor class’ would probably undermine/sabotage him at every turn, and he likely wouldn’t even get nominated.
Let me guess. Almost as Conservative as Obama?
Reagan would be considered a RINO today.
He did nothing to stop abortions.
He did not veto tripling of federal spending in 8 years.
He gave blanket and instantaneous amnesty to all illegals!
Today, he would be considered a first class RINO.
Reagan, should he reappear today, would be slightly to the right of Atilla the Hun.
Yes; it would be a repeat of 1976, but upped by several degrees.
Why would the WaPost want to write an article about this topic?
he was pro-life
Congress writes the budget
he had a deal with Democrats, they lied and he said it was probably his biggest mistake as President
- no he would not. Today’s RINO are members of COMINTERN compared to Reagan
So you’re saying the country was further left in the 80s than it is today?
Correct.
A very useful image to define the big government types - Christie, Jebby and Santuckabee.
And imho, if Ronald Reagan were running today, with the state of the world and country as it currently is, he would be right on top of Ted Cruz.
For starters, CPAC is not what it was thirty years ago.
Secondly, fundraising has NOTHING to do with how conservative a person is.
And finally, Rand Paul isn't conservative on ANYTHING, he's a libertarian populist.
This site only bases him on his 1980 and 1984 performance. He was politically conservative in 1968 too.
I read an article from Look magazine in the late 1960s and it sounded like a Ted Cruz rally the way they reported on Ronald Reagan, his positions, and the crowd.
So interesting. And JFK would be to the right of Ted Cruz.
But the culture has changed so voters of today are not the same as the voters of 1980.
Liberals love to pretend that Reagan would be a Democrat today and that he was too liberal for today’s GOP.
Apparently none of these people have ever been to a Tea Party event, where Reagan is routinely invoked by name and in spirit.
Progressives are demented, uninformed, untethered nitwits.
We desperately need another Reagan.
They tried to do so in the 80s, but are stronger now.
You are a liar, Reagan is not considered a rino.
Actually Reagan IS the RINO.
Look at the history of the GOP, Reagan is an outlier, and when he left office, with the Bushes, they went right back to ‘business as usual.’
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