[texastoo]

The RINO Gerald Ford lost to none other than Jimmy Carter.

What are you saying?

[Mo1]

The RINO Gerald Ford lost to none other than Jimmy Carter. What are you saying?

Guess you forgot about that thing called a primary

[Recovering_Democrat]

I'm saying REAGAN didn't walk out on the Republican party. Yes, Ford lost--by a threadbare. And he arguably LOST because there were many angry conservatives who walked out on him...which was something Ronald Reagan did not do!

Reagan's 11th Commandment was to never speak ill of a fellow Republican. Today that law is broken repeatedly, and I myself am guilty. But when we keep the fight "within the family", it is a bit more acceptable. When we decide to "go against the family"--a little Corleone there--we have disaster.

So we had four years of Jimmy Carter, the man who started the surrender to Islamic fundamentalism with his weak-kneed policy in Iran.

Reagan didn't care for the East Coast hoity-toity Republican establishment...but he stayed with the party nevertheless.

Reagan's example is the one to follow, not Pat Buchanan's or Ross Perot's. Work for change within the party, yes--but do NOT abandon it. Abandonment gives power to the party that is worse than even the country club Republican party--the party of Henry Wallace, FDR's socialist VEEP, the party of Howard Dean, the party of Hitlery, the party of the Breck Girl, the party of John "Global Test" Kerry.

That is unacceptable.