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To: sunmars

High tech lynching from the establishment thugs succeed ? I hope not ! IMHO, our problem are these professional politicians. This country was meant to be represented by ordinary citizens, not elitists ! When Reagan was POTUS, the quality of him was very high but also he was not a “professional politician” ! The quality of professional politicians really sucks !


18 posted on 12/02/2011 11:50:00 AM PST by CORedneck
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To: CORedneck

It has been called and will always be called DEFAMATION OF CHARCTER. It is a great wrong.


176 posted on 12/02/2011 5:22:24 PM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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18 posted on Friday, December 02, 2011 1:50:00 PM by CORedneck: “IMHO, our problem are these professional politicians. This country was meant to be represented by ordinary citizens, not elitists ! When Reagan was POTUS, the quality of him was very high but also he was not a “professional politician” ! The quality of professional politicians really sucks !”

Some of your facts are true, but you're not accurate in your main point.

Ronald Reagan was an experienced professional politician. He began his career elsewhere, but he moved into politics by the 1950s and spent many years in the political world before being elected president.

Ronald Reagan was governor of one of our largest states — I don't remember whether California at the time he was governor was still behind or ahead of New York, but it certainly wasn't a small state. Other than Rick Perry and George W. Bush, I don't think we've had a Republican presidential candidate with that level of large-state executive experience in the last three decades, and on the Democratic side, I can't think of anyone besides Mario Cuomo of New York.

Even before being elected governor, Reagan had a long and mostly successful track record of active political work. Even before being elected governor, he took an aggressive part in numerous elections. Also, we shouldn't forget his years of anti-Communist activism that included his leadership of the Screen Actors Guild to help root Communists out of the entertainment business. (Too bad that didn't succeed long-term.)

Reagan is not an example of someone being elected who was not a professional politician. He is an example of someone who was successful in one profession, changed professions, did what he needed to get experience, and was eventually elected president after serving in lower office.

Time in the chair makes a difference. Look at President Barack Obama — his main problem is his bad ideas, but fortunately for us, he also has a basic lack of experience that is making harder for him to govern.

283 posted on 12/03/2011 10:06:23 AM PST by darrellmaurina
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