Yep and you would be in the lunatic fringe with Ron, where you belong.
Barry Goldwater set the Conservative cause back severely, if Reagan had not rose up, then we would be full fledged Socialist Nation today. We are so close to that now that it should strike fear in the hearts of Libertarians, but they just don't seem to see who benefits from their position.
“Barry Goldwater set the Conservative cause back severely, if Reagan had not rose up, then we would be full fledged Socialist Nation today. We are so close to that now that it should strike fear in the hearts of Libertarians, but they just don’t seem to see who benefits from their position.”
Unfortunately too true.
Reagan got us involved in three military actions. Two (Libya and Grenada) were small. The third, Lebanon, ended with Reagan withdrawing the troops and considered his attempt at peacekeeping folly. I agree with Reagan on all three accounts.
And don’t tell me where I belong. It’s not “lunatic fringe” to suggest we don’t need to be involved in all the wars we are involved in, nor need as large of a military is not “lunatic fringe.” In fact, it’s the majority of the public according to every opinion poll you can sight. Fact is, you don’t know what Reagan would have done in any of these cases. Furthermore, the one comparable situation he got us in he realized it was stupid. Russell Kirk, one of the founders of the modern conservative movement, opposed Gulf War I. Bill Buckley opposed Gulf War II. To call me “lunatic fringe” or not conservative is patently absurd. I might be wrong, but I am neither of those. Furthermore, I consider it ironic that I am the nut on the conservative forum because I think we are probably being too liberal (I am using the word properly) in our military spending policy.