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To: DoughtyOne

It is the same damn thing, i.e our laws being broken and illegals living and working in our country

The point of this whole exercise is that the older generation of cons (I am only 27) was willing to look at the overall picture and not litmus test Reagan out of a chance at becoming the greatest President of the 20th century

Could you imagine what would have happened to him had we held him to the same standards that we do conservatives today?


94 posted on 05/14/2009 11:50:36 AM PDT by MadIsh32 (The token Muslim :))
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To: MadIsh32

Reagan would do as well today as he did in 1980. Mitt Romney simply can’t. You have to dismiss too many positives about Reagan, to classify him as no better than today’s crop of politicians.

Without meaning to be, you are an example of what I think is one of our biggest threats to our nation today.

It has been so long since we actually had a true Conservative present real Conservative values to the nation, that many adults can’t relate to the last man who did.

If you wish to boil Reagan down to the traits you have mentioned, you will have to boil off an incredible amount of good that overshadowed what you are talking about.

Today probably less than 30% of our populace can remember the Reagan years. And although you have been fed some interesting aspects of Reagan, you haven’t been fed the best parts.

Reagan stood head and shoulders above all the other players in the Republican party in 1980. If he were running today, he would tower over today’s crew even more.

I’m sorry you can’t remember Reagan all that well. And you know what, it isn’t your fault. Our leaders should be heralding Conservatism and what Reagan stood for. Instead they want to declare is era dead (that’s how disconnected they are), and his values as if they died with him.

Reagan’s values were eternal.


95 posted on 05/14/2009 12:17:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)
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To: MadIsh32

You really don’t have a clue, especially about President Reagan.

I worked at his headquarters when he first ran for Gov.
I saw and heard his speeches many times in person as Gov. and when he was Pres.
I also met him.

Your talking points are the usual combination of Liberal and third party.

Your support for Sanford is a joke. A RINO Paul clone
and a person who speaks and looks like a funeral director,
who outside of his state is a non starter.


97 posted on 05/14/2009 1:46:23 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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