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This should fall squarely in the "Captain Obvious" category. Still, Shirley reminds us that this is not 1980 and Romney is most definitely not Ronald Reagan. The Article made me more nostalgic than ever for the Gipper, a man who had the courage to take on the Establishment and defeat it and then had the stamina and fortitude to re-orient our domestic and Foreign policy like no President in American history. I hate to see Romney even mentioned in the same paragraph with him.

THIS was a great man.

1 posted on 03/08/2012 6:24:54 AM PST by Brices Crossroads
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To: Brices Crossroads

“Nothing Like”?! How about exactly opposite?! Or world’s apart?! Or good vs evil?!


2 posted on 03/08/2012 6:28:19 AM PST by albie
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It’s interesting, isn’t it? Two candidates, and their supporters, keep trying to compare their guy TO Reagan. A third simply says he worked WITH Reagan.

Now, some holes can be punched into all three stories, but it is telling the difference. And while we’re at it - Rush’s comparisons with Santorum to Reagan on social policies? Really? Now I’m not as old as Rush, but I remember Reagan Carter pretty well. I don’t remember much of anything about the social issues being an issue, even though we knew where Reagan stood.


3 posted on 03/08/2012 6:28:48 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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Lost me by lumping Reagan with Obama at the end.

No question Reagan and Romney are very different. Likewise Carter and Obama.

I lived through Carter and there was a sense he was an embarrassment. I think people fear and dislike Obama much more.

Reagan started out with the conservative base and had to convince moderates he wasn’t a threatening right winger.

Romney starts with moderate respect and has to energize the conservatives.

I think the American people cannot wait to vote Obama out of office.


4 posted on 03/08/2012 6:34:17 AM PST by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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Reagan’s positions on the issues throughout his political life were clear and unambiguous.

Romney, not so much.


6 posted on 03/08/2012 6:38:00 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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C’mon man!

He’s a populist through and through. How many other politicians know that Michigan trees are all the right height?


7 posted on 03/08/2012 6:44:04 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Brices Crossroads

I met Reagan never met Romney but he is still no Reagan !!!!!!!


8 posted on 03/08/2012 6:48:29 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom)
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Given the homosexual push by the judiciary, I’m not sure Reagan would not support the marriage ammenment. He certainly had no qualms about an outright ban on them in the military: “We ask, DON’T join” worked quite well. Aside from that, this was an excellent article.


9 posted on 03/08/2012 6:49:29 AM PST by MSF BU
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So, the man, Romney, who has done the following:

1. Supported Gay Adoption
2. Supported Gay Marriage
3. Wholeheartedly supported Abortion.
4. Proclaimed he was not a Reagan Conservative.
5. Supports Global Warming
6. Implemented a form of Socialized Medicine with RomneyCare with it’s Individual Mandate
7. Doesn’t like nore understand the concept of limited Government.
8. Is a continual and serial liar.

This total creep is like Reagan?

TO arrive at that conclusion the writers of this drivel would have to throw out everything he did as Governor and 95% of everything else.


20 posted on 03/08/2012 7:52:39 AM PST by SoConPubbie
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“THIS was a great man.”

Yes, and the GOP nomenklatura detested him, and set about to dismantle all he had accomplished beginning on January 20, 1989. Here we are. There is no option but to defeat the machine again, inch by bloody inch.


31 posted on 03/08/2012 8:56:55 AM PST by Psalm 144 (They promised me a White Horse and all I got was this whitewashed jackass.)
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The world is a far less dangerous place today than 31 years ago, and the economy is in far better shape.

Huh?


40 posted on 03/08/2012 10:08:09 AM PST by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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