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.
And that's their problem. Reagan was a force of nature. For younger conservatives, it's hard to explain. No politician on the national scene had 1/10 of his conviction and charisma. He came from nowhere (he'd been out of the California governorship for years) in an era when the left had a complete monopoly on media, at a time when the Republicans were still reeling from Watergate, and at a time when the Republican party was dominated by Nixon/Ford type politicians (eg, the EPA and wage and price controls were Republican initiatives passed only a few years before Reagan ran for president).
All Reagan did was take over the Republican party, win his countrymens' hearts, reverse a decade of economic malaise and win the cold war--all in 12 short years.
I do not expect to see his equal again in my lifetime. He is uncopyable. With much respect for W, I still have to say that neither party has a politician in his class. We don't call him Ronaldus Magnus on this board as a joke.