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Ronald Reagan Is Still Dead (Projectile Vomit Alert: NYT's Frank Rich)
The New York Times ^ | January 20, 2008 | Frank Rich

Posted on 01/21/2008 1:07:41 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

CONTEMPLATING the Clinton-Obama racial war, some Republicans were so excited you’d have thought Ronald Reagan had risen from the dead to slap around a welfare deadbeat.

Never mind that the G.O.P. is running on empty, with no ideas beyond the incessant repetition of Reagan’s name. A battle over race-and-gender identity politics among the Democrats, with its acrid scent from the 1960s, might be just the spark for a Republican comeback. (As long as the G.O.P.’s own identity politics, over religion, don’t flare up.)

Alas, these hopes faded on Tuesday night. First, the debating Democrats declared a truce, however fragile, in their racial brawl. Then Republicans in Michigan reconstituted their party’s election-year chaos by temporarily revivifying yet another candidate, Mitt Romney, who had been left for dead.

The playing of the race card by Hillary Clinton’s surrogates to diminish Barack Obama was sinister. But the Clintons are hardly bigots, and the Democratic candidates all have a history of fighting strenuously for inclusiveness. By contrast, the Romney victory in Michigan is another reminder of how Republicans aren’t even playing in the same multiracial American sandbox.

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They print this dreck, but they have a problem with Bill Kristol? Too funny! No wonder they're about to go bankrupt!
1 posted on 01/21/2008 1:07:42 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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“Never mind that the G.O.P. is running on empty, with no ideas beyond the incessant repetition of Reagan’s name.”

This is actually a good point, but not in the way Frankie Wankie meant.


2 posted on 01/21/2008 1:10:26 AM PST by GovernmentIsTheProblem (We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. - Thomas Jefferson)
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Republicans were so excited you’d have thought Ronald Reagan had risen from the dead to slap around a welfare deadbeat.

Frank Rich is so giddy he has a job you'd have thought Barney Frank stopped by to slap HIM around.

3 posted on 01/21/2008 1:11:51 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Pro-Life atheist who will vote Fred in the primary, Republican in November)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Frank-less B*tch.
4 posted on 01/21/2008 1:24:31 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)
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How does a simple-minded movie critic become an authority on politics?

Oh wait, it’s the New York Times, their whole existence is nothing but a bad movie.

Fwankie needs to get back into a dark theatre where his ignoble career started.


5 posted on 01/21/2008 1:33:51 AM PST by mkjessup (...........................................................>> GOP + FOX = The new "Axis of RINOs" <<)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Watching the Ny slimes swirl down into the pit of nothingness has been exciting for me.. I will celebrate when that final flush happens...


6 posted on 01/21/2008 1:36:32 AM PST by alaskamomma
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Never mind that the G.O.P. is running on empty, with no ideas beyond the incessant repetition of Reagan’s name.

I wish!!!

7 posted on 01/21/2008 1:37:03 AM PST by Onelifetogive (* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some FReepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
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"Ronald Reagan Is Still Dead"

And, liberals are still stupid.

8 posted on 01/21/2008 1:43:49 AM PST by Pajamajan (Pray for president Bush. Pray for our troops. Pray for congress, Pray for our nation.)
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How many PAGES of specific policy ideas has Fred released now? I don’t think that qualifies as no new ideas.

But of course why would the NYT actually want to tell the truth when it would make it so much harder to push a really good lie?

“Creating an agenda out of thin air ping!”


9 posted on 01/21/2008 1:49:33 AM PST by Advil000
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And the demorats Hillary and Obama have such marvellous ideas!
All I heard so far is more spending, more taxes. They talk about increasing jobs but have no details, just words.


10 posted on 01/21/2008 2:00:25 AM PST by ajay_kumar (United we win, divided democrats win. How difficult is that to understand?)
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So now its part of the vast rightwing conspiracy that Hillary and Obama are racebaiting each other. Another brilliant call by the NYT.


11 posted on 01/21/2008 2:08:32 AM PST by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whenever Frank Rich opens his mouth something is subtracted from the sum total of human knowledge.


12 posted on 01/21/2008 2:32:03 AM PST by ought-six
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FREEP THIS POLL:
HUCKABEE SUPPORTERS ARE SPAMING THE FOX POLL TO VOTE FOR FRED TO GO..THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT WANT FRED GONE

GO VOTE NO.. http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/

13 posted on 01/21/2008 2:37:57 AM PST by W04Man (I'm Now With Fred http://Vets4Fred.net)
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Now wait a minute isn’t Obama’s church racist? I thought I read somewhere their a “black church and proud of it” tripe. Clintons playing the bigot card is forgivable? Why?

The two way street isn’t two way as this editorial clearly demonstrates the two-faced elitist rhetoric of a democrat.

14 posted on 01/21/2008 2:42:53 AM PST by EBH (Loose lips sink ships.)
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To: Darkwolf377

Nha, that is Pinch’s special pleasure with Frank.


15 posted on 01/21/2008 2:46:04 AM PST by Corporate Law (<>< - Xavier Basketball, Perennial Slayer of #1 Ranked Teams)
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And surprisingly enough, Frank, he’s still smarter than you.


16 posted on 01/21/2008 2:59:04 AM PST by RichInOC (Frank Rich [HEART]s Show Tunes.)
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Funny thing they don't realize is that while the MAN might be gone, his spirit and ideals endure.

And THAT is what they simply CANNOT deal with.
17 posted on 01/21/2008 3:01:31 AM PST by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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Reagan the Man has been replaced by Reagan the Myth.

As a myth, Reagan has taken on messianic characteristics. And all GOP candidates are measured on their potential to be a second coming.

18 posted on 01/21/2008 3:06:08 AM PST by Ben Ficklin
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McKennedy is Frank Rich’s favorite RINO. Conservatives should take note of which GOP candidate is endorsed by Socialists on the other side.


19 posted on 01/21/2008 3:37:08 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ronald Reagan committed the great sin of demonstrating that the liberals are full of excrement.


20 posted on 01/21/2008 4:26:05 AM PST by popdonnelly (Get Reid. Salazar, and Harkin out of the Senate.)
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