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Posted on 08/10/2011 11:11:20 AM PDT by Why So Serious
No one knew how good he was going to be back then, we just knew we had to get rid of Carter.
No one knows who is going to win the GOP nomination, nor do they really know how good they will be if elected.
We do know we have to get rid of the current fraud.
What better way to have it screamed to the world “LIBERALISM SUCKS!”
Priority #1 is to get rid of Obama.
But most Reagan supporters knew he was special.
No one (including you) knows how this is going to play out. No one knows who is going to be our nominee, nor do we know if they win what will happen.
Color me skeptical that you knew, and that you know our nominee can't be great this time around.
One thing we know, is that my dog would be a better president than the current fraud (and I don't own a dog)...........
I say this not to belittle Ronaldus Magnus, but as a warning. Our country is much more dependent, lazy, Godless and ignorant than they were in 1980. Our debts are greater, our bureaucracy more bloated, our financial systems more corrupted and our enemies less rational. To save this country the next president will need to dwarf the accomplishments of Ronald Reagan and they will need an equally conservative and motivated congress to accomplish it.
The electorate in the next cycle may well vote in large numbers of new Republican office holders, and for that you can in some twisted way thank Barack Obama. But until the Republicans get the courage to talk about eliminating - not adjusting, not tweaking, not refinancing - the massive entitlements that will soon bury us then it is all theater for the masses.
I don't feel good about the future because political victories without substantive legislative ones are meaningless.
That's the SECOND good prayer I've read from you today. I join you and say, AMEN!
Flash forward almost 3 years. The U.S. economy is crashing around our collective ears and Obama points fingers, makes the same speech every few days and the media desperately tries to blame the TEA party for everything that's going wrong - but few are buying it. Harry Truman, for all his faults (mostly forgotten, now) realized that, indeed, 'The Buck Stops Here' - with the president. Not a grass roots movement (the TEA party) or even congress, but with the President of the United States. Like it or not and deny it as he will, Barack Obama (and the Democrats) own the failing U.S. economy. Blaming George W. Bush or the TEA party won't work anymore. Americans are hurting financially and growing angry at Obama, not the TEA party. As always, the president is the focal point for citizen anger when things go terribly wrong. Many Americans may not think or care whether Barack Obama is a communist, socialist or a vegetarian but they will blame him for the economic mess the country is in. Americans work hard and just want a decent life. A bad economy makes that goal harder and harder to reach and no one likes that. The leftmedia, reliably pro-Obama/Democrat are also being abandoned by more and more Americans. Fox News, long a target for left-wing hatred, is booming. FNC blows away the competition on every level. A sure sign that America is moving to the right. Perhaps not really 'conservative', as we conservatives might define the label, but definitely away from Obama and liberalism, which has demonstrably failed.
Which brings us full circle to the validation of the premise that a hard-left president with a complicit media and, for two years, Democrat control of the congress, by the abject failure of his policies has awakened apathetic Americans and is turning them against both liberal politics and Barack Obama, his false hope and his change - for the worse. In a perverse way, the Obama presidency has actually done something good for America by showing the country the inevitable result of socialism, and it isn't pretty.
I felt the same way in 1979 as Jimmy Carter faltered and the country’s economic problems opened the way to Ronald Reagan’s election. The 2012 election seems poised to be a potential realignment election in which the Democratic party suffers and even more severe loss than it did in 1980.
Freepers, are you like me?
Here’s how I proceeded thru this thread:
1) Saw title in latest comment activity.
2) Thought, ‘probably should be a BARF alert on this’
3) Clicked the link
4) Observed it was a vanity, as there was no published URL link
5) Started to read the first couple lines
6) Read: “I got involved with politics when Ronald Reagan was election President”
7) Thought, “was ELECTION President? That doesn’t even make sense.”
8) Hovered over the sign up date of the poster
9) Saw December, 2010.
10) Started checking for IBTZ posts below
11) Never read any more of the post.
12) Penned this POST REPLY.
Is that what anyone else did?
Carter faced a tough fight from The Swimmer for the nomination, I think if Carter ran opposed for the nomination, he might very well have won.
That’s the one good thing The Swimmer did, was to help take Carter down.
Don’t confuse the poster...........
This is liberalism run amock. In fact, it is just plain Marxism, Socialism, Communism. Calling a spade a spade is okay. (Oops! I’ll be accused of “racism” I suspect. I’m sick of this PC crap! - And, I’m feeling GAY today, too! I’m reclaiming that word from the “definition changers”.)
I became a Republican Precinct captain that year and mom, dad, and I were the only Republicans in the whole precinct.
That's just not credible.
A lot of us are surprised it didn’t happen sooner.
Arguably, Kennedy’s challenge diminished Carter’s stature and his hold on the affections of the Democratic Party. Yet those effects ought not to be given too much weight as Kennedy’s challenge does not seem to have shifted any elements of the electorate from Carter to Reagan.
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