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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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.
Agreed!! McCain is not Obama - that is enough this year.
Has to be. There’s nothing else.
BUMP
On the other hand, McCain has a better running mate than Reagan did.
Like Rush says: Let’s take care of one battle at a time. -First Obama THEN McCain.
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.
Palin
Jindal
Tim Pawlenty
Michelle Backman
Not dead, just waiting for the rest of conservatives to figure it out.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108652/posts
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.
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.
A year ago I would not have agreed with you, but now....I do!!!
Time to push the lame-stream, has-been, dinosaur DNC media to their irrelevance and eventual EXTINCTION.
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?
...and Joe the Plumber!!!!
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