Posted on 10/18/2008 9:59:11 AM PDT by Publius804
Republican Party Killed Reagan Era
Friday, October 17, 2008 9:49 AM
By: Michael Reagan
If you believe Newsweek magazine — something that usually requires a serious suspension of disbelief — the Reagan era is dead. Politico also chimed in, proclaiming the death of the Reagan revolution.
Newsweek doesn’t go on to tell you who killed the Reagan era, so I will. It was the Republican Party that demolished the shining city on the hill my father built. It was the Republican Party that was 100 percent responsible for the end of the Reagan revolution.
They forgot who he was; and having forgotten who he was, they stopped following in his footsteps that should have led to smaller, less-intrusive government and restrained government spending. They are the ones who began to undermine the sturdy foundation my father built.
By the way, the same thing happened to Maggie Thatcher in Britain. Her own party was responsible for undermining all the great advances she made towards dismantling the socialist welfare state that had made England an economic basket-case. It happened because once she was out of power her party weakened.
Maggie was strong, and Ronald Reagan was strong, but when they no longer were in power and at their prime, their followers turned into weak-kneed office seekers.
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- lets win this!
The country club wing of the party always hated Reagan.
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That’s what happens when you have a CONSERVATIVE LEADER who ARTICULATES CLEAR CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES. McCain isn’t a conservative nor can he articulate crap. RIno’s can’t.
Kiss the USA as we know it. It’s will soon be the United Socialists of America.
The seeds of our destruction were sewn before Regan was elected anything. Oil money feeds the islamic hegemony that is determined to conquer the world. The republican party has many Grandees with unrealistic ideas. One of them is our nominee. And he is our nominee due to the poorly structured primary system that allowed the liberals to vote for our party.
Wait a minute! I belong to a country club and I think Reagan was the greatest President of the modern era. I think you need to narrow that broad brush just a tad.
If the Reagan Era is dead -— and I’m not convinced it is -— it was killed by the Republican Party and its leader, President George W.Bush.
However, Reagan conservatism is not dead. Its alive and well in the hearts, in the minds and in the souls of conservatives everywhere.
Reaganism lives!
That is a beautiful map from a beautiful time. We are very fortunate to have been a part of that.
I don’t imagine that the Democrats will ever have their own Reagan. It requires something within which the left does not possess.
RINO’S in positions of power within the party must be destroyed.
The appropriate microcosm is to look at my state, NJ. The RINO’S are nothing more than democrats masquerading as republicans, they are in cohoots with the democrats and use politics to get rich, the shady deals know no boundaries.
Conservatives are NOT WELCOME, the “Republican Party” in NJ campaigned AGAINST the conservative star Bret Schundler for Governor in NJ, knowing full well who and what McGreevey was.
If you want a real Republican party, you MUST, MUST, MUST get RINO’S out of positions of power and show up for ALL primaries, in full RINO hunting gear.
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Michael Reagan nails it.
“weak kneed office seekers.” I have personally seen that phenomenon happen with GOP candidates/officials much more often than not. It’s almost as if, as soon as they are elected, the first thing they move to do - above all else - is move to protect their respective seats.
If the Reagan Revolution is, indeed, dead it was killed, as Michael Reagan has so succinctly put it, by the GOP itself, and its candidates. Like it or not, GWB is a large part of the destruction of the GOP. Any Republican in an executive office that spends the way GWB has is nowhere near being a conservative. Now, with him pushing the bailout, he has proven himself to be a socially conservative socialist.
President Reagan is spinning in his grave.
Thank you for posting this! I’m putting it on my blog as it’s the home to my activist conservative circle of friends.
Michael Reagan sounded the alarm - thanks for spreading it.
I agree! Love to golf and belong to a Country Club, but I still miss Ronald Reagan. He was the greatest President in my lifetime. We can only pray that McCain/Palin win the election, and hopefully bring back some of the Reagan traditions.
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For the next couple of weeks there is only one “this” - the election. After that you are free to define “this” as you like. :-)
I loved Michael Reagan recounting how his father handled the “Crash of 1987”.
In so many words, Mike said that his dad said “Things go up and they’ve
got to come down” and departed to Camp David.
Sure, this is not the same sort of financial crisis...but it was refreshing
to hear The Gipper and his equivalents of Paulson and Bernanke didn’t
go on TV like Dubya, Paulson and Bernanke to make speeches that usually
just drive down the markets.
You are welcome - let’s take the party back from the RINOs.
Not country club. The Bush wing of the Republican Party — the “one world” which means “oil.”
Bush, Hastert, Frist were RINOs in the worst way. They played “grab the cash” instead of being conservatives.
Now we lost and we are a Marxist country.
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