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To: mattdono
Reagan appealed to the punk (and metal) crowds by not pushing "cultural conservativism". When the Buchanan crowd got it back on the agenda in 1992, it backfired.

-Eric

4 posted on 05/16/2004 10:39:52 AM PDT by E Rocc (It takes a village to raise a child. The village is Washington. You are the child. - PJ O'Rourke)
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To: E Rocc

And they have come back in full force this year.


16 posted on 05/16/2004 2:06:01 PM PDT by hchutch ("Go ahead. Leave early and beat the traffic. The Milwaukee Brewers dare you." - MLB.com 5/11/04)
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To: E Rocc
Reagan appealed to the punk (and metal) crowds by not pushing "cultural conservativism".

"Just Say No!" to drugs was a heavy message promoted by Nancy Reagan (along with Ronald).

AIDS activists think he didn't do enough to help the homosexual community (because of their hedonistic lifestyle choice).

Tipper Gore was the one leading the charge for music censorship, however.

19 posted on 05/16/2004 6:06:26 PM PDT by weegee (NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS. CNN ignored torture & murder in Saddam's Iraq to keep their Baghdad Bureau.)
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To: E Rocc
Reagan appealed to the punk (and metal) crowds by not pushing "cultural conservativism".

Which Reagan was that? Charlie Reagan?

39 posted on 05/17/2004 3:16:44 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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