No, hon. The one who is embarrassing himself is you. You've done nothing but condemn Bush and nearly ALL the Republican presidential nominees at every turn 24/7.
And if you think that the former Democrat Ronald Reagan who passed the most liberal abortion policies in the nation while Governor honestly changed his mind about abortion, there's no reason to believe that other men can't change their minds as they grow older, wiser and look at the new technology (sonograms) which show that it's not a blog, it's a human being.
But keep pretending that Reagan was the only true conservative. Most freepers are well onto you by now.
Gee, I guess the Reagan years were as unified as some freepers would like us to believe.
IS CONSERVATISM FINISHED?
By Wilfred M. McClay
. . . We also forget that the Reagan administration itself, far from being happily unified, was driven by internal battles between “pragmatists” and “ideologues,” conflicts that prefigured many of the policy battles of the present. And we forget that, outside the administration, Reagan got plenty of grief from his own Right as well.
The querulous Richard Viguerie, for example, an influential but notably unhappy camper in those halcyon days, began hectoring the Reagan presidency almost from the beginning, complaining to the Associated Press in January 1981 that with his cabinet appointments Reagan had given conservatives “the back of his hand.” A July 1981 op-ed by Viguerie in the Washington Post, entitled “For Reagan and the New Right, the Honeymoon Is Over,” was thoughtfully timed less than four months after the President had nearly been killed by an assassin’s bullet. By December 1987, Viguerie was declaring that Reagan had actually “changed sides” and was “now allied with his former adversaries, the liberals, the Democrats, and the Soviets.” A year later, in the final months of his presidency, when it was clear to all that Reagan had fundamentally changed the terms of debate in American politics, Viguerie announced that, thanks to his tenure in office, “the conservative movement is directionless.”
It is especially pertinent to recall such statements when one opens Viguerie’s current book, a catalog of Bush-administration horrors whose pages are replete with inspirational Reagan quotations and the highest praise for Reagan and his appointees. For a movement that claims to rest upon long perspectives and deep cultural sources, American conservatism can be remarkably short-sighted, impatient, brittle, fractious, and downright petulant. Indeed, conservatism has been found by its adherents to have “cracked up” or “lost its soul” more times than are worth counting in the years since 1980 (at least as many times as America has “lost its innocence”).
You can read this entire MUST READ commentary at
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/cm/main/viewArticle.aip?id=10812&page=all
Let's see.... RWR was born in 1911, so he was 55 when he was first elected governor of CA in 1966. That means he signed CA's abortion law sometime AFTER age 55.
What age is Mitt Romney now? Not quite old enough to change his mind?
I never mentioned Bush. On the abortion issue, Dubya happens to be a strong pro-lifer. Just like Reagan, Bush supports the three exceptions for abortion. As do most pro-lifers. Bush has never wavered on his abortion position and even revived many of Reagan's executive orders and Presidential edicts from the 1980`s that limited abortion rights.
The historic facts are quite clear. Roe v Wade changed the moral, ethical and political landscape when it came to the abortion issue. Reagan opposed abortion on demand and became America's first pro-life POTUS, in the post Roe v Wade age.
>>>>>But keep pretending that Reagan was the only true conservative. Most freepers are well onto you by now.
Never said Reagan was the only true conservative. That is sillytalk. On the abortion issue, however, Reagan was the father of the pro-life movement [by Fred Barnes]. Rudy Giuliani supports abortion on demand. Mitt Romney is a flip-flopper on the abortion issue. Remarks by Reagan, Giuliani and Romney on the abortion issue speak to the historic facts as they are written down.