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Is defeat probable for GOP if Reagan wins nomination?
The Christian Science Monitor ^
| March 5, 1980
| Richard J. Cattani
Posted on 03/19/2016 10:44:06 PM PDT by monkapotamus
The nation's Republicans are working against the clock to answer two key questions: Can conservative Ronald Reagan possibly attract enough independent and Democratic votes to win in November?
"Reagan is the opponent of choice for Carter," says I. A. Lewis, director of the Los Angeles Times Poll, a point on which most analysts agree. "But Reagan can reach across and cause mischief in the Democratic constituency," Mr. Lewis says. "Reagan appeals to blue collar, working-class voters. He can win Democratic votes..."
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: New York
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To: GLDNGUN
We now have some GOP-e saying they will run a 3rd party candidate if Trump is the GOP nominee. What ever happened to the WHIG party?
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posted on
03/20/2016 4:13:30 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: GLDNGUN
The party fell apart because of
internal tension over the expansion of slavery to the
territories. With deep fissures in the party on this question, the
anti-slavery faction prevented the nomination for a full-term of its own incumbent President Fillmore in the
1852 presidential election; instead, the party nominated General Scott. Most Whig Party leaders eventually quit politics (as
Abraham Lincoln did temporarily) or changed parties. The northern voter-base mostly gravitated to the new
Republican Party. In the South, most joined the
Know Nothing Party, which unsuccessfully ran Fillmore in the
1856 presidential election, by which time the Whig Party had become virtually defunct. Some former Whigs became Democrats.
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posted on
03/20/2016 4:16:09 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: gartrell bibberts
Don’t forget...
Reaganomics & Voodoo Economics
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posted on
03/20/2016 4:18:22 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Netz
44
posted on
03/20/2016 4:19:11 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Flick Lives
“My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you that today I signed legislation that will allow student religious groups to begin enjoying a right they’ve too long been denied the freedom to meet in public high schools during nonschool hours, just as other student groups are allowed to do.”
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posted on
03/20/2016 4:21:07 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: crz
HELL YA! And guess the name of the family who were at the lead. If anyone wants a hint, look up "Voodoo economics". It's the derisive term the GOPe's chief spokesman (and the head of this family) used to describe Reaganomics.
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posted on
03/20/2016 4:21:13 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Rubio: All the slipperiness of Bill Clinton, with none of the smarts.)
To: w1andsodidwe
And Reagan would get us into a war. And he would cut off all welfare. Immigrants hated him and would hate us more. And what does an actor possibly know about foreign policy? Heaven forfend we elect such a one.
He was the best president in my lifetime.
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posted on
03/20/2016 4:22:12 AM PDT
by
Jemian
To: Repeal 16-17
It is freaky how history appears to repeating itself. Political déjà vu.
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posted on
03/20/2016 4:23:26 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Rubio: All the slipperiness of Bill Clinton, with none of the smarts.)
To: ifinnegan
Well in to Reagans second term Trump called Reagan someone who talked a good game, but didnt deliver. (Boy was Trump ever wrong).
Well into Trump's second term, ifinnegan, with him doing everything he said he was going to do, will you admit you were wrong? Or will you just slink away, never to be heard again in Free Republic?
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posted on
03/20/2016 4:27:47 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Rubio: All the slipperiness of Bill Clinton, with none of the smarts.)
To: Elsie
You are right on the money. Reagan was the man for 1980 & 1984; Trump is the man for 2016.
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posted on
03/20/2016 4:35:59 AM PDT
by
CASchack
To: w1andsodidwe
Trump is NO Reagan! Trump doesn’t even come close to being Reagan. They can’t compare Trump to anyone we’ve ever had for president. Trump is a Progressive Populist.
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posted on
03/20/2016 4:44:26 AM PDT
by
lucky american
(Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
To: lucky american
Trump is NO Reagan! Trump doesnt even come close to being Reagan. Well for that matter, neither does Cruz.
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posted on
03/20/2016 4:51:10 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Rubio: All the slipperiness of Bill Clinton, with none of the smarts.)
To: Elsie
Exactly. Reagan was ideal in many ways, but society has changed since he ran.
Part of the challenge of remaining relevant is to take tried-and-true ideas and present them in a new or different way to fit a new audience.
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posted on
03/20/2016 5:11:07 AM PDT
by
Cato in PA
(Resist!)
To: COBOL2Java
For that matter neither did Reagan. The real Reagan signed things like amnesty, a tax increase and asset seizure without trial that would have a lot of today’s “real conservatives” up in arms. But he rebuilt the military, won the cold war and brought 20 years of economic growth, and is remembered as a great president. If Trump builds a wall and revitalizes the economy for the working and middle class, so will he be.
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posted on
03/20/2016 5:22:43 AM PDT
by
Hugin
(Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
To: Hugin
Reagan also, as California Governor, signed an abortion on demand liberalization bill in 1967. After leaving the White House, he supported the Brady gun control bill in 1991 and the NAFTA free trade agreement in 1992.
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posted on
03/20/2016 5:27:08 AM PDT
by
r_barton
To: w1andsodidwe
Wow I was 16 at the time and was a big Reagan supporter, probably the first politician I ever supported, and I do remember all the heat he was getting. My brother had a Reagan bumper sticker on his car and his car got trashed so it seems times haven’t changed at all, let’s just hope Trump destroys Hillary in a landslide as well.
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posted on
03/20/2016 5:27:10 AM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
To: irishjuggler
>>I remember Ronald Reagan. I remember 1980.
I remember 1980 too. America was a much more civil nation then. The two parties did not work together to destroy the American middle class (yet). We didn’t have a permanent welfare underclass who could be called upon to disrupt and loot on command.
Go out and drive around for while. Watch how people will cut you off, cut in line, and get angry over the simplest things (like waiting 2 seconds to move after the light turns green). That is 2016 America. 1980 America is long gone. Trump is the Reagan for a nation of rude, impatient, angry people.
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posted on
03/20/2016 5:44:46 AM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(Sic semper tyrannis)
To: Elsie
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posted on
03/20/2016 5:47:09 AM PDT
by
OttawaFreeper
("You'd see a different game if nobody wore a helmet". NY Rangers' Barry Beck 1983)
To: Elsie
Donald is a PERFECT fit for today. Ouch. So true.
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posted on
03/20/2016 5:47:53 AM PDT
by
VRW Conspirator
(American Jobs for American Workers.)
To: w1andsodidwe
And Clinton is worse of a candidate than Carter
Carter was like able and wasn’t a criminal
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posted on
03/20/2016 5:49:13 AM PDT
by
kidd
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