Have we all forgotten Reagans 11th Commandment?
Uh... if Rudy says he wants to run as a Dem, how does an R behind his name make him a Republican?
No. Have you forgotten the GOP platform?
“We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all.” —Ronald Reagan
“A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.
I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.”
— Ronald Reagan, March 1, 1975
“Let us lay to rest, once and for all, the myth of a small group
of ideological purists trying to capture a majority.
Replace it with the reality of a majority trying to assert
its rights against the tyranny of powerful academics, fashionable
left-revolutionaries, some economic illiterates who happen to hold
elective office and the social engineers who dominate the dialogue
and set the format in political and social affairs. If there is any
ideological fanaticism in American political life, it is to be found
among the enemies of freedom on the left or right — those who would
sacrifice principle to theory, those who worship only the god of
political, social and economic abstractions, ignoring the realities of everyday life. They are not conservatives.”
http://reagan2020.us/speeches/The_New_Republican_Party.asp
It meant something when the correlation between ‘Republican’ and ‘conservative’ was stronger. Types like Ahhhnold and Rooty are just quasi-useful 50%ers in otherwise write-off regions.
Are you referring to the same Reagan that was so disgusted with Gerald Ford's liberalism that he became the only modern Republican to challenge an incumbent Republican president for the presidential nomination?
Ronald Reagan's edict of not speaking ill about other Republicans DID NOT MEAN that he didn't believe in challenging their records.
Reagan's 11th commandment applied to Republicans. Those of us criticizing Ghouliani are conservatives and RINO Rudy isn't one of us.
Principled conservatives have an obligation to oppose liberals in either party.