The Faux Reaganites and Sarah Palin

Vanity | 11/11/2010 | Brices Crossroads

[slowhandluke]

And did you wait to vote for Reagan until after "The man turned a country around that had suffered under LBJ, Nixon and Carter, broke the Soviets and contributed to the liberty of several hundred million people"?

Or did you decide there might be something in that actor that was worth supporting before he became known as a great man?

It's of little use to look only at the lives of great people after they become great, unless you are trying to use that information to figure who will be the next great person.

[SoConPubbie]

Excellent BC!

Notice how any references or comparisons to Reagan where Sarah is concerned brings out the nutjobs on FreeRepublic?

Seems like exposing a Vampire to the light.

Inevitably, since they have no ammunition to fight back with, they turn to slanders and slurs such as calling everyone who supports her cultists.

Same behavior we see in the Left-wing press and from the Marxists/Socialists et. all.

[pissant]

Reagan was great long before he became prez.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY

[ghostrider]

The slanderous behavior towards Sarah Palin is just politics. They know she is going to be very tough to beat, so they have to use a pusillanimous and spurious attack. They can't attack her face to face, because she takes charge simply by walking into the arena. That is what a natural leader does. The elite poster children traditionally offered by Repos and Rats take a lot of heavy selling and sleazy attack plans.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

After the 2008 election, she tried to return to her duties as governor, but Obama's henchmen were waiting in Alaska to execute a preemptive strike on her 2012 presidential ambitions with a flurry of bogus ethics complaints. Instead, she preemptively struck THEM, resigning as Governor and going national, wreaking havoc on Obama's agenda and dealing both the Democrats and their GOP Establishment confreres a body blow in the 2010 midterms.

I don't blame her one bit for resigning as governor.

[presently no screen name]

Very savvy move and they hate her for it! Their little plan for her didn’t work.

[LibLieSlayer]

Reagan was Reagan before he ran for President... before he ran for Governor... before he was a movie star... I met him... and worked on his state campaign here twice. We knew he was a great leader before all of this happened... and some of us see that quality in a certain person today. It really burns some people up that we do.

LLS

[ghostrider]

Yup! She is a natural leader, flexible, adaptable and not afraid to take risks. Don’t you wish you had that to represent us on the world stage?

[Brices Crossroads]

“Kristi Noem”

I am surprised you like her so much, since she is a Mittbot.

Have you forsaken Hunter in favor of Mittens?

[pissant]

I’m only commenting on her looks. She may be a Mittbot, but that is about on par with being a McCain pimp ala Palin.

[ghostrider]

"McCain pimp ala Palin"

You have selected a very appropriate username. Good choice :)

[pissant]

He has no bigger cheerleader in the country than his protege.

[Brices Crossroads]

“I met him... and worked on his state campaign here twice. We knew he was a great leader before all of this happened... and some of us see that quality in a certain person today.”

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LLS,
You prove my point. the real Reaganites such as yourself, JimRob and Mark Levin (to name a few) love Sarah Palin and see her qualities as similar to Reagan, including her sterling character. For us, Sarah Palin and Ronald Reagan are not “either, or” but rather “both, and” as Obama and Carter are two sides of the same false coin, Palin and Reagan are two sides of the same priceless coin, which is the legal tender for our republic to buy back its freedom.

The faux Reaganites were really only for him after he won and they jealously guard his legacy, which they have tried to coopt. It is their jealousy that betrays their fundamental misunderstanding of Reagan the man. There was not a jealous bone in his body. If he were alive today, he would be cheering Sarah on. I would bet anything on it.

[Brices Crossroads]

“I’m only commenting on her looks.”

Figures.

[calcowgirl]

What was it that commended Reagan to those of us who supported him for so long, even going back to 1968, when he made his first run for President (and came closer than many people realize to winning the 1968 nomination)? Well, it wasn't principally his time as SAG President, although many of us admired how he stood up to Communists there. This was not a difficult or unusual position to take in the 1950s. What about his two terms as Governor of California? Again, these were never really examined in any detail in his Presidential campaigns and were never really his chief selling point. (Indeed, the state budget doubled under Reagan and he signed a steeply progressive tax increase, as well as a liberal abortion law, which he bitterly regretted; His tenure as governor was basically overlooked by most conservatives and, to the extent it diverged from orthodoxy, it was blamed on his predecessor, Pat Brown, or written off to the giant idiosyncrasy that is California).

Wow -- way to tear down and marginalize Reagan.

[pissant]

Not smart to bring up “mittbott” or “huckaboob” when your idol is a dyed in the wool McAmnestite

[SlipStream]

“They hated and tormented GWB, because he was a Repo. But they were not scared of GWB. They just tormented him.”

This isn’t true. They saw the huge wins he made in Texas as governor especially with the hispanic vote. I remember there was a criminal who was put to death (sentence occurred way before Bush appeared on the scene) and this stupid guy’s death sentence was national news. The lead story everyday was that GWB was putting someone to death. People in China would ask me about it! hahaha

Democrats tried very hard to get McCain to beat GWB because they knew McCain was much easier to beat than GWB.

While GWB’s presidency would end up disappointing, I do remember the intense energy the guy had during the campaign and in general. No regret at all that he won and Al Gore and Kerry did not. And I’m certainly glad that GWB won the primary and not McCain in 2000.

[calcowgirl]

Oh joy, another Palin is the Gipper vanity.

They did it with Rudy, too. Let's tear down Reagan to make our guy look good. Sad.

[ghostrider]

A natural leader and good politician won't get suckered into attacks that waste resources with no or very little potential for gain. McCain is an accident, a Dole put forward in the election flim-flam that sets up straw dummies as targets for the preselected President. There is no use to waste resources on him. There are much more serious targets that need to be attacked. Like the shadowy groups that fund the selection of our traditional leaders.

[pissant]

See post 41.