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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No doubt some of this is what you say. I'll add "I've got a computer, hear me roar". There's a bunch of that too.
BTW, thanks for your post GVanna, you're definitely on to something here. :)
John is OWNed by George Soros, the Tides Foundation and the Rockefellers..
Prior to Tuesday, McCain received 31% of the primary vote. He is not the choice of most Reps let alone conservatives. McCain is a dead man walking. He is going to be trounced, thanks to the antiquated primary rules. Any party that nominates its maverick to be its standard bearer deserves to lose.
Agreed. But also understand that Ford was only 64% conservative according to the ACU.
He’s not talking. And I’m sick of people speaking for him. If someone could we wouldn't be neck deep in the sh!t we are in.
Bust. Your tag line is outdated.
You might have me there. Although I think I will leave it there for a time yet.
McCain most recently was 65% conservative by the ACU.
But I think those figures are misleading. It’s not the number of votes but the importance of the votes, or the sponsorship of important bills. My those standards, McCain is dismal.
For instance, drilling in ANWR lost by one vote. You can blame Lincoln Chaffee, or you can blame McCain.
Then more recently there was the McCain/Kennedy amnesty bill. That alone was enough to counterbalance a hundred votes, many of them probably meaningless, on the conservative side.
Dole was also running against an incumbent president with high approval ratings and a booming economy (thanks in large part to a Republican Congress that got re-elected that year). Everybody knew before the primaries even started in 1996 that the Republican nominee would have no chance. If a candidate as weak as Dole can win nineteen states and get 41% of the popular vote under the circumstances, McCain should do better than that.
The NRA will certainly endorse McCain. Romney (although I voted for him) might not have gotten the NRA endorsement if he was the nominee.
“Just vote for Mclaim, hes better than O’Clintonama” -(persona: John McLain “Hard Whatever”)
Bump, good post.
[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.]
As well as;
‘92...Clinton
‘96...Clinton
‘06...minority
What’s the definition of insanity???
Actually, the party left me long ago but I stayed in to see if I could effect some sort of positive change. Instead of griping, I listened to some of the advice I'd been given and that's when I ran for Precinct Committeeman, etc. and got really involved with the party. I gained a great deal of experience but my efforts could not come close to defeating the grip that the establishment liberals have on the party. The nomination of John McCain will be the final straw for me and I will have to admit defeat instead of continuing to endlessly bang my head against an impenetrable, unscalable wall. It's over, folks. The dream is dead. Circle your wagons and prepare for the coming storm. I'm out.
With all due respect, if the liberal with the R next to their name Ford had won instead of the liberal with a D Carter winning and ruining the country with his weakness and liberalism, things would have turned out differently.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.- Benjamin Franklin
exactly......;)
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