Certainly has a 1980 feel to it, though Perry is NO Reagan.
Even Reagan could not carry California today.
Instead of changing their policies, the Left has adopted the strategy in past decades of changing the voters, in order to have a voting base that is impervious to policy failure. Amnesty would be the finishing touch on that strategy.
The article does raise one interesting point. Perry tells the truth about SS. Are Americans willing to hear the truth? From what I’ve seen on FR, I’d say the answer is an unequivocal “no.”
True...but he perhaps best captures that same sentiment and the same potential group of voters Reagan did back in ‘80.
“Certainly has a 1980 feel to it, though Perry is NO Reagan.”
Unfortunately, to many FReepers on this board, Reagan is no Reagan.
I campaigned for Reagan in 1984 (at age 12) and am a devoted conservative Reagan Republican. But it cannot be denied that many FReepers on this board would brand the Gipper as a RINO if he were running today. “He raised taxes as California governor? He signed the amnesty bill as president? RINO!” I can just hear them, smug in their insular ideological purity. Any candidate who does not comport with 100% of the poster’s political positions is henceforth branded a RINO.
Thus far, Perry is the real deal, and the best hope to rescue our country from the Marxist. Hopefully all FReepers come to realize this.