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To: Innovative
“I don’t know about you, but I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, ‘We must broaden the base of our party’ – when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents.” – Ronald Reagan, CPAC 1975
36 posted on 02/21/2014 6:54:15 PM PST by M. Thatcher
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To: M. Thatcher; Innovative
Here is another quote, a bit more of the CPAC 1975 speech M. Thatcher is referencing

"A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.” -- Ronald Reagan

Innovative, you must be one of those who really hated Reagan to so gleefully twist his words out of context the way you have.

41 posted on 02/21/2014 7:32:26 PM PST by Waryone
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