Nothing is wrong with a nostalgia for Ronald Reagan - he was a great leader and President, and it was a bold time in American history. However something is wrong if we have to resort to nostalgia as a election tool; using it as a crutch because we are not speaking SOLUTIONS. Harkening back to Reagan is not going to produce a presidential win for the GOP. In fact, that was the exact opposite of Reagan who was optimistic, forward thinking, looking to the future, to the morning.
We are writing the media script for the next GOP convention: “A party lost in the wilderness, overshadowed by a dead President.” To an outsider, I doubt that sounds attractive.
That’s just a plain silly notion. Our side doesn’t have a problem with optimism. Theirs does. I will admit, though, Jeb may have a point in one sense.
There are many Reagan Democrats in Florida. This is how 5-mistress Mahoney won, and Crist ran ads that made him look “Reaganesque”. Reagan Democrats in Florida voted Obama, and Obama too used the Reagan style, purely in the esoteric sense, but it worked for him.
Maybe Jeb, it would behoove to run WITH Reagan, like RINOs and Democrats have been doing, instead of trying to run AGAINST Reagan!