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To: writer33; HopefulPatriot
"Ronald Reagan's two landslide elections and the 1994 Congressional elections suggest that statesmen of a caliber similar to Ronald Reagan or the Founders can defeat "professional" politicians whose re-elections are dependent upon socialism...Could the Constitution be restored and our republic be saved or resurrected if men like Ronald Reagan and the Founders could be recruited to come forward and seek election?

These are the two major points that critics of this series will have to challenge.

It also important to note that our efforts to restore the Constitution will not stand or fall on these two points. More over, the burden of proof for anyone who wants to put forth an alternative plan, will have to include some plausible explanation of how politicians who are substantially different in character or belief structure could restore the Constitution where Founder-like people could not, or alternatively that Founder-like people are no longer present in our population and that there are no more conservatives similar to Ronald Reagan.

In short, if people like the Founders or Ronald Reagan can't restore the Constitution, Who can? And how?

4 posted on 11/15/2005 8:55:39 AM PST by Reaganghost (Democrats are living proof that you can fool some of the people all of the time.)
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To: Reaganghost
Here are the links to past articles and the next article in the series:

First Article- Free Republic And Freedom

Second Article- Free Republic's Roots

Next Article

5 posted on 11/15/2005 10:51:10 AM PST by HopefulPatriot
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To: Reaganghost; John Robertson; Jack Bull; scouse; M Kehoe; Always Right; syriacus; Fzob; ...
The common denominator of the problems facing America today is this:

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I’ve come to realize there is a very close resemblance to the first,” Ronald Reagan. A better definition of a "professional" politician is one who is more interested in securing their own lifetime career in office through repeated re-election than in fulfilling the duties of their elected office. And because they are more interested in their own re-election, they are willing to subvert the Constitution in order to use the public treasury to buy blocks of votes from the public. In effect, "professional" politicians have converted our "republic" into a democracy by surrogates."

How did they do it?

"In contrast, unhampered by term limits, "professional" politicians began using socialism as the mechanism for the creation of blocks or categories of voters. With the almost unlimited taxing and borrowing power of the US treasury at their disposal, "professional" politicians then repeatedly and competitively bid for, and purchased the blocks of votes which they had created with socialism.

As early as 1964 Reagan reminded us, "Plutarch warned, 'The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."

39 posted on 11/16/2005 6:44:30 AM PST by HopefulPatriot
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To: Reaganghost

Mike Pence.


76 posted on 11/18/2005 9:25:19 AM PST by RockinRight (It’s likely for a Conservative to be a Republican, but not always the other way around)
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