[Christian4Bush]

I wonder if he will say his not doing anything to secure the border and allowing the illegals into the country was and is a mistake.

Hmmm...considering that he's speaking at the library of a president who SIGNED an amnesty bill into law...

And I would have crawled over broken glass to vote for President Reagan (had I been old enough), and I did, for President Bush.

It seems like everyone is a RINO except us on Free Republic...and perhaps instead of the RINOs, it is our expectation of ideological purity that put us in our current position.

[ohioWfan]

That's exactly what I thought when I read that, Christian.

If Bush is a RINO because of amnesty, then Reagan is a RINO writ large.

BDS doesn't correspond with logic. It's an emotional thing, and rational people will never understand it.

[dsutah]

Amen, good post! I couldn’t agree more!

[upsdriver]

Reagan was a great president and so was GW Bush. Personally, I am tired of all the RINO crap talk. We need a debate of ideas and help conservatism win the day but we also need the moderates and independents votes as well. To intentionally piss them off is not smart. Reagan and Bush reached out to all without compromising their beliefs.