What Would Reagan Do? (Ann Coulter Laments Bush Not Being More Like The Gipper Alert)

Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 09/21/05 | Ann Coulter

[Wormwood]

If you don't want to do so, that is fine. But you can't argue later that the president should have "reached out" to conservatives.

Pardon me, but a Republican should not have to "reach out" to Conservatives.

We got him elected, after all.

[Miss Marple]

Awhoe lot of "perfect conservatives" think the president hasn't reached out to them. Read FR for a few days, and you will see it.

[Kath]

If memory serves us correctly he also gave us Kennedy didn't he. That should answer her question.

[Reagan Man]

>>>>Scalia deserved the chief justiceship. He's the best man for the job.

I think Scalia's age may have entered into Bush`s final decision. Scalia was a little too old. The choice was Roberts for 25-30 years, or Scalia for 10-15 years. A no brainer. Personally, if not Scalia, then surely, Justice Thomas.

>>>>Bush has enacted massive new spending programs, obstinately refused to deal with illegal immigration, opposed all conservative Republicans in their primary races, and invited Teddy Kennedy over for movie night. He's even sent his own father to socialize with aging porn star Bill Clinton.

LMBO!!!

[sharkhawk]

You guys fail to nderstand the concept of "supporting your party's leader."

Yeah, I seem to remember some president in the 80's had written the 11th commandment, "thou shall not criticize another republican". Who was that, oh yeah it was President Reagan. Reagan was a great man and a great president, but don't forget he gave us O'Connor, Amnesty, pulled the Marines out of Beirut, signed a tax increase in 1986, and so on. Reagan was criticized by many of the so-called pure conservatives of the time, but those conservatives seem to have forgotten those differences.

[jveritas]

Who did nominate Supreme court justices O'Connor the "moderate" and Kennedy the "moderate"?

[trubluolyguy]

Dubya ain't perfect, but he's pretty darn good.

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Correct on both counts.

[Bommer]

With 6 years down and just 2 more to go, one can only count the missed opportunities squandered by Bush. Like Frist, he just doesn't have it in him to be a Reagan. Too bad.

Got that right. Lets hope he nominates another O'Conner. Yeah that was a great appointment there! Yep, the chick who says racism will go away in 25 years! Real brilliant appointment from the Gipper!

[pissant]

I see your point. I'm actually glad, that unlike liberals, the conservative movement has every shade of conservative under the sun! Criticism is OK by me, as long as it is tempered by the acknowledgement of the great things this President has done. I like Ann Coulter, but think she's just silly 25% of the time.

[Reagan Man]

>>>>I seem to remember some president in the 80's had written the 11th commandment, "thou shall not criticize another republican".

So Republicans aren't allowed to criticize an elected official? The Founding Fathers are turning over in their graves at such a suggestion. Read on.

Let's start with the phrase, 11th commandment. It came during the 1966 Governor's race in California. That was a slogan Reagan didn't create.

"The personal attacks against me during the primary finally became so heavy that the state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican. It's a rule I followed during that campaign and have ever since.

Now, I'm not Ronald Reagan and neither are you. I believe Reagan was speaking for himself when he made those remarks. He didn't mean, you and me.

Btw. Have you forgotten? Candidate Reagan had some harsh criticisms for PresFord during the GOP primaries in 1976.

[Jim_Curtis]

The devil is trying all kinds of tricks to divide this nation and it's especially painful to see such petty division among our ranks.

Everyone was saying that in his second term Bush would have the luxury of being himself and no longer need to compromise with the rats for political purposes but Bush has become more of a big government liberal after the election and when the "real Bush" was supposed to appear and after he was given a majority in the senate and house.

You can't expect this development not to demoralize principled conservatives. Any glimmer of conservatism that we see out of Washington will be the result of conservatives putting pressure on the Republicans, not by smiling and head nodding.

[ohioWfan]

OK...........this is a little backwards, isn't it?

Seems to me that Bush is doing BETTER than Reagan in the Judicial department.....

What's the evidence again??

O' Connor and Roberts??

[Graymatter]

Rorschach blot...hot-blooded Italian chief justice..."I still believe in a place called the G-spot"

I sure would like to live long enough to see Ann Coulter become an old woman who blurts out anything on her mind, unedited and unrepressed.

[Hound of the Baskervilles]

>No, I mean the First Church of GWB has supplanted the Principles of Conservatism that used to drive this forum.>


As you say. I just don't want to pick on Bush at this point in time while his enemies are heaping scorn on him is such a vicious way. As much as I respect the Principles of Conservatism, I detest the sicko lefties who have been heaping scorn and slanders on my president. I would rather not participate in any criticism of Bush that would give the left wingers any kind of satisfaction. Conservatives being openly critical of Bush helps the morale of Democrats and I don't want to be a part of that. I want Democrats to be miserable 24/7/365.

[ohioWfan]

Ann Coulter, in Gen. Honore's words, is "stuck on stupid,"

Deserves to be repeated........only bigger. :)

[uncbob]

I wonder where Ms. Coulter places Justice O'Connor on her list of Reagan's greatest accomplishments.

It is OBVIOUS you didn't read her article as posted with this thread

Try doing that and then make a comment

[ohioWfan]

Not only have they forgotten those differences, but the same 'purists' have now deified the man they once reviled.

Complete hypocrisy.

[nopardons]

Ann has some strange bias going on here, which is deeper than she's letting on; though she has become an hysteric over the Roberts nomination.

Reagan gave us O'Connor, so thank GOD, that President Bush isn't being Reaganesque, with choosing Roberts first to replace her and now to fill Justice Rehnquist's position; for whom he clerked.

Soooooo, Ann wants an ITALIAN CJ? Has she never gotten over Guchionne (sp.?); perhaps?

[nopardons]

Not all of us, but most. Thanks for posting that! Many people here need to be whacked over the head with the facts, every now and again.

[nopardons]

Hell YES, she is wrong about this!