[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.

[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.

[ohioWfan]

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

Complete hypocrisy.

[JeffAtlanta]

Reagan was criticized by many of the so-called pure conservatives of the time, but those conservatives seem to have forgotten those differences.

The reason is that Reagan looks really good compared to the globalists and socialists that have been elected after him.