Posted on 02/14/2008 2:14:33 PM PST by smoothsailing
Ronald Reagan Would Back McCain
By Michael Reagan
Thursday, February 14, 2008
In 1976 the Ford vs. Reagan campaign for the Republican presidential nomination got so heated it looked as if my father and Jerry Ford would never again talk to one another.
When it was over and Ford had won, what did Ronald Reagan do? He simply went all-out to help Ford win his re-election, as did I and as did my sister Maureen. My dad simply followed his rule of backing the Republican candidate no matter who he was.
Assuming that John McCain will be the Republican nominee, you can bet my father would be itching to get out on the campaign trail working to elect him even if he disagreed with him on a number of issues.
Unlike my father, a lot of conservatives stayed home in 1976, and we got four years of Jimmy Carter, whose main legacy was to drive the Shah of Iran from power and create the Islamic Republic of Iran with a bunch of wild-eyed mullahs running the show. He also gave us 20 percent inflation and long, long lines at the gas pumps. And don't forget 440 days of Americans held hostage by the mullahs.
By staying home those conservatives made possible the future election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
We are still suffering from the legacy of James Earl Carter, thanks to the conservatives who refused to follow Ronald Reagan's example and instead sulked at home while the nation was being handed over to the worst president in American history.
We were still in the middle of the Cold War in those days, and by staying home conservatives risked losing that war by allowing an incompetent leader to become commander in chief.
Four years later Ronald Reagan took over, the hostages were immediately released, and he went on to win the Cold War. Now we have another world-wide war going on with a hidden enemy sworn to kill us all, and the policy of the Democrats running for the presidency is to throw up their hands and withdraw from the battlefield, leaving it to the enemy -- and our fate in the hands of Osama bin Laden.
Is that what the let's-stay-home-on-election-day conservatives want? Do they want the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, as their president? Do they want the pseudo-Marist Barack Obama -- who reportedly has a photo of the murderous Castroite thug Che Guevara hanging in his Houston, Texas campaign headquarters -- hanging that photo in the Oval Office?
Do they want Hillary Clinton, the duplicitous former first lady, back in the White House enjoying all those furnishings she and her husband tried to swipe from the mansion?
Do they want a Democrat spending even more money that the government doesn't have on scores of programs right out of Karl Marx's playbook?
That's exactly what they'll get if they sit out the election and stay home on Election Day. That's called biting off your nose to spite your face. Or even more to the point, political suicide.
Let me say this. There has been plenty of battling in the primaries, and I've been in the middle of the battle, but until now haven't committed myself to any candidate, waiting until we had a nominee.
That's over.
If John McCain is the nominee of the party, this Reagan will happily campaign with him. The alternative is unthinkable to anyone who loves this nation.
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Michael Reagan, the eldest son of Ronald Reagan, is heard daily by over 5 million listeners via his nationally syndicated talk radio program, “The Michael Reagan Show.”
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It's a slow demise on the scale of a Muslim crazie getting a nuke through to detonation but it's effect will be more pervasive. If the 'government' says there are 'only 12 million', it's at least 5 times worse and that doesn't even count the extra extended family total....take a look around next time you get a burger or stop for coffee or gas in the morning. They are sucking us dry.
And that, to my mind, is the fault of conservatives. Over the period from 1990 until now we have failed to find and develop and promote conservative leaders the way conservative Americans did during the 1960s and 1970s. The left took over the schools and the culture and we conservatives have retreated and gone into our shells. We need to reassert outselves across the board.
“I am no “moderate” in any sense, but it is clear even to me that its just plain impossible to run from the fringe, even my fringe.”
You are completely discounting the power of the militia vote to swing this election. Who needs moderates? They are idealogically impure and we don’t want their tainted votes...
I like this quote from your homepage;
"Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers," - Karl Rove
Good post
Btw there is a group called Republicans for Obama. Leader is black. From the way he sounded on tv. He isnt supporting obama because of issues. Supporting him because he is black!
I wont support Hillary and I am a woman.If my only reason for supporting a candidate was because of race gender or religion I shouldn’t be allowed to vote !
check out mccains issues on his web site. and get back with me and tell me which ones you dont agree with
What a con job so many still think this guy is for a strong America - he is a paid lackey of Socialists (SOROS)
IF he was strong on Defense he would never keep our BORDERS OPEN certainly he would have fought to build a secure border
HE IS A FAKE and THE BIG LIE IS HE IS STRONG ON DEFENSE.
PS
Leader of Republicans for Obama also said he is supporting Obama because he reminds him of REAGAN! LOL
Obama is JFK. HE is Reagan, Next he will be Abe Lincoln !
The militia vote is going to come in handy, if available.
The Democrats badly missed the Nader vote, after all.
Ron said “The reason we have a strong military is to make sure we have no wars.”
“And that, to my mind, is the fault of conservatives. Over the period from 1990 until now we have failed to find and develop and promote conservative leaders the way conservative Americans did during the 1960s and 1970s. The left took over the schools and the culture and we conservatives have retreated and gone into our shells. We need to reassert outselves across the board.”
You are absolutely right here.
“The militia vote is going to come in handy, if available.
The Democrats badly missed the Nader vote, after all.”
I don’t doubt it. I merely concur with your original assessment that it is hard to win elections from the fringes.
We’re not done if we leave Iraq, but a lot of other people surely will be.
Much like Indochina in 1975.
Like it or not, since 1945 we have to a very great degree become our brothers keepers, and we are responsible for keeping lids on a host of very dangerous pots.
"When the chips are down and the decisions are made as to who the candidates will be, then the 11th commandment prevails and everybody goes to work, and that is: Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican." ~ Ronald Reagan' [Remarks in New York City at a Reception for Delegates to the State Republican Convention (1982-06-17)]
And now some are screaming for the same losing strategy, i.e. "lets drop out of politics and let the left/liberals run everything". Just pathetic! Does the Left ever "take their ball and run home to mommy?" Answer: NO! They have made great progress because they keep chipping away, relentlessly.
Pantload.
This was the VERY thing that drove Reagan to become a Republican in the first place.
“I did not leave the party, the party left me.”
“And I will, the day McCain is nominated, become an Independent and leave the party that I’ve supported for two decades”
I’ve been an independent for many years now and don’t regret registering out of the party one bit. They left me long before this.
“IF he was strong on Defense he would never keep our BORDERS OPEN certainly he would have fought to build a secure border”
If your measure of being strong on US defense relies on the Mexican illegals issue then what grade would you give the only US president to have ever given amnesty to illegals?
No US President past, current or candidate now running gets the illegals issue.
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