Posted on 07/04/2009 9:56:45 PM PDT by Libloather
from the Wikipedia article about Rollins:
“...in early 1968 he worked for Kennedy as a campus coordinator, then later as a paid operative for his primary campaign in Northern California.
After graduating, Rollins served briefly as an assistant to the President at Chico State, then in Sacramento as a state budget analyst. After the 1968 election and the GOP takeover of the California Assembly, he was hired by Republican Assemblyman Ray Johnson as his Chief of Staff, despite his prior service under the Democrats. [3] Later, he left California for Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. From 1969 to 1972, Rollins served assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, also teaching political science and public administration. There, he personally witnessed violent student protests, including the burning of an ROTC building.
“In the summer of 1972, Rollins was hired by Robert T. Monagan, former speaker of the California Assembly, to work as a paid operative for the California campaign to re-elect President Richard Nixon. This gave Rollins his first close contact with Governor Ronald Reagan, who chaired Nixon’s California campaign, and Lyn Nofziger, who ran the West Coast Nixon political operation. It was at this time that “blue-collar Democrat” Rollins made his permanent switch to the GOP.[4]”
It is interesting to me that the article traces his way back to Reagan, but not back to Kennedy or Nixon and how he left the Dem party after seeing the protesters and working for Republicans.
It also REFUTES your contention that Rollins was a Perot guy. He was NOT a Bush’41 guy for sure, as the article pointed out. (He resigned from a $1,000,000/yr contract due to Bush’41.) In addition, he RESIGNED from the Perot campaign midway through when realized that Perot was emotionally unsuited to the presidency. I TOO resigned from the Perot campaign about that same part of the campaign for the same reason, and then went to work for Bush, which Rollins would not do because he believed that Bush’41 was NOT conservative enough.
Perot and Bush’41 were the guys who gave us the ‘Toon, not Rollins.
I didn’t contend that he was a Perot guy.
“Maybe she did, but anyway Reagan and Palin are poles apart even they both have good character.”
Seems to me that you’re underestimating the importance and centrality of character. If they share that, there’s no way they can get “poles apart.”
They can be stellar opposites in personality , ambition etc but still share good character.
“They can be stellar opposites in personality , ambition etc but still share good character.”
I don’t know why you cling so to that proposition.
Good character presupposes the absence of overweening ambition, and the ‘Cuda’s personality is pretty similar to that of Ronaldus Magnus.
I dont share the same opinion. l
Looking at Palin I dont see that she has the same personality as Reagan , atleast from her record so far.
“Looking at Palin I dont see that she has the same personality as Reagan, at least from her record so far.”
I wonder where you got your information on her record so far, because to me they look very similar.
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