REAGAN SIGNED A BILL THAT HE WAS ADVISED - BY LEGISLATIVE PROFESSIONALS - WOULD REDUCE THE NUMBER OF ABORTIONS.
THAT IS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CONSERVATIVE - TO WORK TOWARDS A CULTURE OF LIFE, YOU SHIT-STAIN FILTH!
You’re missing the entire point. In fact, you’re making 2DV’s point for him.
Reagan was anti-abortion and worked to limit, with the goal of ending, abortions. But the “Theraputic” act is a blemish on his record. It was a mistake, not a hypocritical act, but still a blemish.
Does it make Reagan any less of a hero for the pro-life cause? No. But some people — those who demand absolute “purity” — would use this one incident to paint him as a “RINO” in today’s terms.
Add on the amnesty, and these same folks would be reaching for their pitchforks.
Yet Reagan is still a conservative icon, because these few blemishes are almost the “exception that proves the rule”. If anything, the California abortion bill opened his eyes to the deception and dirty tricks the left uses through the introductions and subsequent twisting of legislation. The amnesty might have worked if the promised enforcement methods had ever happened, instead of just laughed off by the Democrat-controlled Congress.
The cautionary tale here is: if the same standard of “purity” were applied in Reagan’s case as the so-called “true conservatives” would brand him a RINO or DIABLO. “Look, he signed a bill that was pro-abortion! He endorsed moderates (liberal Republicans); that proves he’s just another party loyalst who’s talking a good game to get elected!”
And so on.
Remind you of any FR posters of late?