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WHAT WOULD REAGAN THINK OF MCCAIN?
Reagan quote from http://www.anncoulter.com/ ^

Posted on 02/20/2008 1:45:14 PM PST by Robbin

"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals of 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 commenting "moderate" Republicans who didn't support Goldwater in 1964


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: liberal; liberalvalues; mccain; rino
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People keep saying Reagan would have supported McCain, based on this quote, I don't think so...
1 posted on 02/20/2008 1:45:15 PM PST by Robbin
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To: Robbin

There are moderates who are with you 80% of the time. And there are guys like McCain who can be counted on to stick you when you are most counting on him.


2 posted on 02/20/2008 1:46:51 PM PST by marron
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To: Robbin
"We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals of our opposition and who seek our support."

Sounds like he's describing McCain accurately.

3 posted on 02/20/2008 1:47:14 PM PST by Old Sarge (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: Robbin

Every one of these threads make me miss Mr. Reagan a little more than the last thread.


4 posted on 02/20/2008 1:51:52 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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I think Ronnie would keep to his guns: "Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican."

Especially with John running against the Ultra-Liberals Obama or Billary!

5 posted on 02/20/2008 1:51:54 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Old Sarge

I love your tag line. I’ve made that promise myself!


6 posted on 02/20/2008 1:52:09 PM PST by Robbin
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To: Robbin

John McCain Hates Me
Friday, February 1, 2008
By: Michael Reagan
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24782


7 posted on 02/20/2008 1:52:09 PM PST by donna ("We can create Kingdom on earth" - Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: Robbin

Ronald Reagan Would Back McCain
By Michael Reagan
Thursday, February 14, 2008

http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/MichaelReagan/2008/02/14/ronald_reagan_would_back_mccain


8 posted on 02/20/2008 1:52:45 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
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To: Robbin

9 posted on 02/20/2008 1:53:06 PM PST by Old Sarge (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: Robbin

My question is: “What would Reagan think of a President Hillary Clinton or President Barack Obama”?


10 posted on 02/20/2008 1:53:15 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: donna

GREAT READ, did you post that here on the FR.
If so, I must have missed it.
Thanks


11 posted on 02/20/2008 1:54:15 PM PST by Robbin
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To: Robbin

Not much.


12 posted on 02/20/2008 1:54:15 PM PST by bigjoesaddle (McCain is a liar and a crook. See amnesty and Keating Five.)
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To: Robbin

“My 80 percent friend is not my 20 percent enemy.”

— Ronald Reagan


13 posted on 02/20/2008 1:55:18 PM PST by West Coast Conservative (Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.)
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To: Robbin

Good quote, Robbin, thanks for finding it and posting it.


14 posted on 02/20/2008 1:55:27 PM PST by MizSterious (If it's Hillary v. McCain, I refuse to vote for EITHER liberal !)
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To: Robbin

Reagan would have supported McCain on amnesty.


15 posted on 02/20/2008 1:57:24 PM PST by SQUID
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To: Robbin

That is funny because to those Conservatives who refuse to vote for McCain in November over Obama or Clinton, I would say:

“Going over the cliff, flags flying, is still going over the cliff.” —Ronald Wilson Reagan


16 posted on 02/20/2008 1:57:59 PM PST by TSchmereL ("Rust but terrify.")
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To: Robbin

Reagan was asked to campaign for Ford but refused because he thought Ford was too much of a Soviet appeaser.


17 posted on 02/20/2008 2:00:00 PM PST by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: SQUID

No he wouldn’t have, since he didn’t support his own version of it not long after it passed.


18 posted on 02/20/2008 2:00:10 PM PST by pissant (Time for a CONSERVATIVE party)
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To: SQUID

That’s not true.

Reagan didn’t like the amnesty clause in simpson mazzoli, his primary focus was security. He said so in his diaries, he wanted to solve the problem once and for all. Nobody in their right mind would think that amnesty would’ve done that.


19 posted on 02/20/2008 2:01:37 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing (Juan Hernandez = Mexico First, therefore McCain = Mexico First. There's no way I can vote McCain.)
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To: Bender2

“I think Ronnie would keep to his guns: “Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican.”

I think mayhaps Juanito ought to take a lesson.


20 posted on 02/20/2008 2:03:37 PM PST by Grunthor (McCain voters believe that it's possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.)
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