Ditto. When Reagan started his national political career, the majority of Americans did not have a voice in the media, Washington DC and academia. Many resented what they saw in liberal policies on welfare, affirmative action, the pummelling of America by the world and leftwing, etc, etc. When Reagan introduced the conservative ideals, it had a hungry and waiting audience to receive it. What are the liberals in the Democratic Party going to offer to the public? More liberalism?
That the left thinks it can simply remove republican ideas and initiatives and drop in dem ones and poof! everything will work out shows why they're such losers. They can't even come up with a way to sell their lunatic positions, so they think simply SELLING them in a new way will make it all better.
O-Kay.
They tried to replicate Limbaugh and failed.
They are trying to replicate Newt strategies.
Hillary's trying to take a page from G.W.
Now the Democrats wish to copy Reagan.
I'm just curious. Is it possible they'll ever realize all these people in one way or another advanced various conservatives policies either economic, in foriegn policy or social? That perhaps the message may have been even more important than the messenger?
Nah.
The RATS don't get it, Reagans popularity was becase of his stand against bigger government and less regulations. The RATS are controlled by lawyers, and they never saw a tax hike they didn't like, think about it.
The Democrats DID have a "Watergate" crisis on their hands, but they did not play it out. A President with a sense of decency (Nixon) stepped down, at the behest of his own party. The Democrats has an eerily parallel situation, but they did NOT ask the occupant of the White House to step down, and in fact, went on to extol him as some kind of "hero".
History will record this as an enhancement to the legacy of Nixon, who, though he had been stripped of every honor and was reviled even by those he thought his allies, still managed to emerge as a senior statesman in the twilight of his years. The "hero" of Whitewater, on the other hand, never did learn how to keep his mouth shut on the occasions when it would have been of vast benefit for him to have done so.
As a result, the Democrat party is floundering around in a morass of their own making, unable to offer leadership or even a coherent vision, and finding their only tactics lie in constant criticism, without offering any alternatives, whether or not those alternatives are viable, plausible, or even possible.
Yes, just as Gerald Ford had trouble producing an agenda based on truth. One of the lessons of 1976 that I took out of it is that sometimes it is a good thing when milktoastrepublicans lose.
The problem of Democraps is one of ideology verses money! If they do not slave themselves to the Left, theres no money! Hillary has no charisma and neither did Kerry. Unless Bush really hoses up the works in the next 4 years or the Republican't nominate a moron like McCain or Frist, theres no way a Democrap can win unless they move to the Zell Miller right....and thats just not gonna happen
Mr. and Mrs. America are not going to unite behind the Democrat party promising higher taxes for all, homosexual marriage for all, mandatory homosexual sex lessons for all children, social security benefit cuts, and people earning 25k being declared rich.
The democrat (gay) party Solution? free recreational drugs. A stoned populace asks no questions.
I had a similar response. The 'rats won't come back to power by reading a book about Republicans. And, they have no one of the stature and charisma of Ronaldus Magnus.
He was a unifier by appealing to America's highest dreams and aspirations and self-respect. He brought out the best in us.
The 'rats will appeal, as they have in the past, to the worst instincts of envy and greed, and will divide the nation against itself. They have no choice.
You could spell it out to these losers in large printed words of one syllable and they still won't get it. It is alien to their nature to want to heal a rift instead of exacerbate it. ("I hate republicans and everything they stand for!")