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The far right and their single issue is why I keep saying the far right will never occupy the White House.

Okay, RiNO, how do you spell "Ronald Reagan"?

He's the only reason there's been a Republican in the White House at all since 1980.

And don't give me that "he's not right wing" stuff: he nominated Barry Goldwater at the 1964 GOP convention with a speech that peeled the paint off the walls in Liberal Land.

I never said Reagan was a right winger. Hell, Reagan never campaigned with a "right winger" agenda, and never even had a "right winger" policy while in the White House from the time he was elected in 1980 until the time he left in 1989. Reagan proposed an immigration policy eerily similar to Bush's 2004 policy, in 1986. Reagan won by a landslide in 1984 not because the Very Conservative base abandoned him, he won by a landslide the because he played to the middle and scooped up FDR Democrats, and he didn't have to be a "right winger" to do it.

You want to draw comparisons? I can play that game too.

First off he didn't nominate Goldwater, he endorsed him. But Reagan was not an extremest, he passed tax reform and later raised taxes, he granted amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, the federal budget doubled while he was in office and spending almost tripled. For every dollar that came into the federal treasury while he was in office, Congress spent $1.75.

I love Ronald Reagan as if he was my father, he alone restored my faith in this country and I will never forget what he did for me, but he was not the far right conservative that some think he was. Reagan was a patriot who believed in us, he was an optimist to his core and that optimism was contagious, but an extremest he wasn't

And don't give me that "he's not right wing" stuff: he nominated Barry Goldwater at the 1964 GOP convention with a speech that peeled the paint off the walls in Liberal Land.

Reagan was decidedly NOT a right winger. He held them in contempt. Reagan was a born again new deal democrat that voted for FDR 4 times and said he admired FDR over all other presidents. The best way to measure Bush against Reagan is to list the things Reagan did that Bush has not done. Reagan signed the first handgun registration bill in California. Reagan left California with its largest deficit in history. Reagan raised taxes to the tune of 500 billion dollars and called the Revenue enhancements. Reagan signed the Social Security reform act that included the largest jump in withholding taxes in its history. Reagan pulled troops out of harms way at the first taking of casualties. Reagan publicly lobbied for the Brady Bill after leaving office. Reagan pushed for and signed the only TRUE illegal alien amnesty bill in modern history and Reagan left office with their size of government at record levels.