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To: Strategerist; Spiff
You of course managed to miss the entire point of his post.

Any post with a nonsensical line such as that one is not worthy of further consideration. In addition, Spiff's chart covers core conservative values, not whether your kids like you or not.

241 posted on 02/12/2007 9:24:49 AM PST by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08)
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To: dirtboy

Nothing nonsensical about it. The post wasn't an attempt to bash Reagan, it was an attempt to show how a variety of things taken out of context (context including noting that Reagan didn't have control of both houses of Context) could have been used to bash Reagan.

Thus, you clearly misunderstood the point of the post.


243 posted on 02/12/2007 9:28:34 AM PST by Strategerist
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To: dirtboy
Spiff's chart covers core conservative values

Strong defense? National Security? Fiscal responsibility? Fighting Crime? Supporting the wartime President? Welfare Reform? These are all issues where Rudy is strong and the 'rats are weak so Spiff left them off his chart because it didn't help him make his case.

Reducing conservatism to being ONLY about social issues is IMHO not going to fly. For example, Reagan strengthened our national defense, grew the economy and cut taxes. His legacy is in those areas.

On abortion, he couldn't get anything done via Congress (not his fault) and on SCOTUS appointments his first was more about making history than finding the best conservative. His lasting legacy on abortion, regretfully, is the liberalizing he aided in 1967. As President, he also signed an amnesty bill into law. That would also put him on the wrong side of Spiff's chart on THAT issue.

262 posted on 02/12/2007 10:08:01 AM PST by You Dirty Rats (I Love Free Republic!)
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