Posted on 01/25/2007 5:42:41 AM PST by GulfBreeze
That's great, but the MSM has already selected McCain and Guiliani as our candidates. He may have to wait until next time around.
Better than Duncan Hines ain't it?
Excellent post.
Bookmarked for further action.
This thread, in addition to promoting Duncan Hunter's candidacy, has given us a very good window as to who FR's conservatives and liberals are.
You're dead-on Old_Mill. Those who count Duncan out at this stage are just silly people. Those of us who have been in tough grass-roots SUCCESSFUL campaigns know that name and money at this stage aren't determinative.
Hunter is worth a very close look at this stage and let’s see if he can catch a little wind in his sails. There are still PLENTY of wealthy conservatives that haven't found their home yet - not with McCain, Romney, and Rudi as the top dogs right now.
I think is points out there are more than one kind of conservative. There are the culture warrior conservatives ( I call them the single digit types) and then there are the traditional conseravtives interested in low taxes, small government and liberty. ( the double digit types)
Given the midterm election, the culture warriors like Hunter are doomed during this election cycle. The Culture warriors call the traditionalists RINOS. So be it...But the Rinos are now driving the GOP bus....
Hunter will never get into double digits.Frankly If I were a betting man, I'd give you odds he doesn't getter higher than 5% before he goes belly up. Even 5% is being generous.
Those "double digit traditional conservatives" you point out have traditionally gone by another name: Libertarian. We all know how successful they have been in convincing the country about the validity of their GOP fiscal + Dem social point of view.
The beauty of Ronald Reagan is he could talk a good game about abortion, immigration, and the general culture war but in fact he didn't give two hoots in hell about it. He was a traditionalist conservative who was deeply committed to a strong defense, free trade, and law and order and a sound economy. Reagan sounded like a culture warrior but he wasn't. And that was his genius....
I would direct you to Reagan's book, "Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation" if you wish to know how wrong you are in making such a statement. Then again, you already know that before you made it, didn't you.
I would direct you to Reagan's book, "Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation"
It wasn't a book...it was an article written in 1983 for.. NR I believe. It also wasn't written by Reagan. It was ghost written for him by Micheal Deaver. 1983 was the 10th Anniversary of Roe and Pro-life folks were questioning Reagan's pro-life bonafides. Deaver's article was the response.
Now....if you can point to some tangible thing Reagan did to oppose abortion other than talk about it and provide ghost written articles then I'd be pleased to see it.
Reagan's brillance was he was a traditional conservative who could appear to be a culture warrior.
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