Republican Party Killed Reagan Era By: Michael Reagan

newsmax.com ^ | October 17, 2008 | Michael Reagan

[DManA]

Electing McCain accomplishes one thing - it keeps Obama out of the White house. While this is not a trivial thing, it does nothing to spruce up the city on the hill. The only thing McCain has in common with Reagan is his party label.

[Publius804]

Agreed!! McCain is not Obama - that is enough this year.

[DManA]

Has to be. There’s nothing else.

[Paperdoll]

BUMP

[Mojave]

The only thing McCain has in common with Reagan is his party label.

On the other hand, McCain has a better running mate than Reagan did.

[J40000]

Like Rush says: Let’s take care of one battle at a time. -First Obama THEN McCain.

[RasterMaster]

The time for ‘protest vote’ came and went during the primaries. Voting McCain this time paves the way for a Vice President Palin (and future President Palin) to renew conservatism as done during the Reagan revolution.

That starts with local elections by getting conservatives on the election boards and city councils, with state elections by getting conservative majorities in state legislatures and electing conservative governors, and nationally by maintaining conservative majorities in both houses of Congress and electing conservatives during the primaries for President so they can appoint conservative judges.

Now is not the time for allowing the JACKASS party to get a TRIFECTA and full control of all 3 branches of government.

[scooby321]

I like our new foundation of

Palin

Jindal

Tim Pawlenty

Michelle Backman

[cripplecreek]

Not dead, just waiting for the rest of conservatives to figure it out.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108652/posts

[Behind Liberal Lines]

The country club wing of the party always hated Reagan.

It isn't the "country club wing" that caused the problem as much as it was the fact that the GOP went to Washington and let Washington change them, instead of the other way around.

[rdb3]

That won't happen. Trust me.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

I agree. I think we should stop the red state/blue state designations of the media. Red has always been the color of the Left, of Communists, and Red China.

[Illinois Rep]

This was perhaps the best article I’ve seen outlying my own feelings of the Republican party and the conservative movement.

Why is the President having an all time low approval rating? Why is the Democrat congress rating even lower than Bush’s? It’s obvious to me and it isn’t because the public believes we should even be more socialist.

I’m thinking we need a SERIOUS third party because the Republicans are not conservatives. I’m thinking Reaganicans.....a truly conservative party committed to the conservative movement.

[rodguy911]

What wonderful article and everything Mike Reagan said was so true. We were destroyed from within and the only way we can rebuild is also from within! I for one will not let the rinos have my party! I will fight them with everything I have.

[FrankR]

While I think Reagan was the greatest President of the 20th century, and possibly the best ever, I don't think the Reagan era is dead.

The "Reagan Era" was the era of his presidency, therefore, it is gone. His leadership showed all of us how to be bold and reinforced the beliefs we already held dear in our hearts and our patriotism. He made those beliefs come alive.

He had a knack for holding mirrors up to stupid people, like the media and the far left (oops, one and the same)...and making us all laugh at them.

He knew his job, and he did it. Other nations knew better than to mess with us with Ronnie at the helm...ask kadafi.

The GOP is not Ronaldus Magnus...it is the GOP and has probably been infiltrated with dems like everything else...Rhinos abound in politics.

But, we have to remember that we have the seen the GOP, and it are us. We determine who we put in Congress...not Ronald Reagan.

Another great American addessed this very fact:

"Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." --Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776. ME 1:29, Papers 1:429

[rodguy911]

A year ago I would not have agreed with you, but now....I do!!!

[RasterMaster]

Time to push the lame-stream, has-been, dinosaur DNC media to their irrelevance and eventual EXTINCTION.

[jveritas]

This is not the time to go after the Republican Party when we are faced with the disaster of socialism if Obama wins and the democrats increases their majority in Congress. Please vote Republican and McCain/Palin and then we will fix our problems.

[SecAmndmt]

In order to elect conservatives and constitutionalists, one needs voters who understand the true American view of government, and have the courage and conscience to support such candidates without regard to “electability”.

One reason why we don’t have such voters - and won’t for a long time, if the current trends continue - is that Christians refuse to remove their children from the pagan academies AKA communist government schools.

Collectively speaking, conservatives and Christians who are wringing their hands over the impending 2008 electoral disaster need to look in the mirror. Most still send their children into socialist indoctrination 8 hrs per day. How can one expect to move the country back in the right direction when a consistent majority of the next generation of voters leaves the government “education” system with a socialist worldview?

[rodguy911]

...and Joe the Plumber!!!!