Posted on 11/10/2012 9:37:59 PM PST by oneprolifewoman
...Ronald Reagan was a lifelong optimist and an example of remarkable resilience especially in bad times. After Barry Goldwater went down to the greatest presidential defeat in American history to that point in 1964, Reagan, whose nationally televised speech was the one shining success in that campaign, was neither shaken no disheartened. Within two years he had won the governorship of California – and the rest is history. Reagan therefore would not have lost heart and despaired of conservative and patriotic principles, nor of America.He would have taken a good night’s sleep and got up in the morning eager to find new directions and new opportunities for the way ahead. Second, the conservative movement that Ronald Reagan created was generous and inclusive. Reagan welcomed brilliant African-American and Jewish intellectuals alike on to his team. President George W. Bush understood this generous, inclusive essential component of conservatism. I have been critical of Bush for many important things -- unnecessary wars, out of control spending, playing ultimately catastrophic games with keeping interest rates artificially low. But Bush 43, among other things, was highly successful in reaching out to Hispanic Americans. He knew and thought better of grassroots conservatives than assuming that they would never accept Hispanic, black or Jewish Americans in major positions. Romney lost a major opportunity when he refused to seriously consider Susana Martinez of New Mexico or Marco Rubio of Florida as his vice presidential running mate. Martinez in particular gave a superb speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa and could have helped Romney enormously with women and Hispanics – two huge constituencies that he effectively chose to write off. George W. Bush did not make that mistake. Neither did Ronald Reagan.
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You don’t know anything about Reagan, quit trying to make him sound like an idiot.
At least you are doing better than .500, maybe one day . . .
“3rd Parties are stupid ideas. They only give the Democrats more chances to win.”
Unless the third party becomes a powerful force (in which case the 3rd party becomes the ‘2nd party’).
As is often quoted: “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”
On the other hand you may well be right; maybe we should just allow the GOPe to conduct business as usual, and see how that works out.
Now, now anse, that's not very nice.
Make RR sound like an idiot? Far from it!
I'm not going to sit here and try to convince you what I do and do not know about Ronald Reagan. Suffice it to say that I know enough to make an educated guess as to what he would do at this point in time given the history of past CIC’c since he was President, and the leanings of the GOPe. I also take note of whom the party has historically embraced and who they shun.
Have a good night anse112. And don't forget to take your teddy bear with you to bed tonight.
From Freeper IMissPresidentReagan’s homepage, this quote from Ronald Reagan in 1964 should be widely disseminated:
“We don’t intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals of our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all.” — Ronald Reagan commenting “moderate” Republicans who didn’t support Goldwater in 1964
I’d say the Gipper was very prescient—he described just where we need to be today.
The GOP is nothing more than a group of people.
The only reason we can’t get a conservative nominee, is that WE in the Conservative movement can’t make up our minds and we are impossible to please.
If egotistical conservatives could swallow their pride and back ONE candidate, in the primary, we would not be stuck with John McCain or Mitt Romney next time.
It is the SPLIT caused by the grumpy, impossible, perfectionist conservatives that causes us to lose in the Primary contests.
Now? You want to take that same bad attitude and make it IMPOSSIBLE to win in the General Election?
Every third party flake wants the hero of the republican party for their own but he is already taken and he is dead, make your own sales pitch for your new party, don’t try to hijack two time Republican President Ronald Reagan.
“Now? You want to take that same bad attitude and make it IMPOSSIBLE to win in the General Election?”
I don’t have a bad attitude. The record is clear and dates back for many years - the GOP does not have the intestinal fortitude to effect the kind of change we need at this juncture of our history.
One can make a convincing argument that the Republicans really did not want to win the last two Presidential elections. McCain left a tremendous amount to be desired and Romney could have nailed obama on several key issues but chose to play it ‘safe’.
It is not an overstatement to say we absolutely needed a win this time. Everyone knows the left plays by no rules; they’ll lie, cheat, and steal to get what they want.
The Republican machine needed to act accordingly, but they wimped out again. As Mitt Romney said, ‘We deserve better’.
I originally opined here in response to a question being brought forward: ‘What would RR do after obama’s win?’
I stated as I believe. There's no sales pitch here, nor is one necessary. The GOP has done all the selling that needs to be done. There is no excuse for losing this election. obama should have been a gift to the Republican Party. It's not just the economy. obama’s entire record is shameful and un-American. McCain lost to a guy who nobody even knew anything about, and Romney lost to a guy who hates this country and is bent on driving us into the ditch.
The bottom line is that the GOP is not up to the job. They're just not getting it done, and our time is running out, btw.
So by default, we'll have to give a different party a chance. You obviously disagree, but that's the way I see it.
Dummy!
Reagan would do what he did do, fight for leadership in the GOP, defeat the moderates, take control of the party, become it’s leader, and be in command of a vast organization and brand, that mattered.
If he had joined one of our 50 or so “3rd” Parties, he would never have become anything of note in politics.
Where is a Bill Casey when you need him?
Well, loving America and striving to keep it, or return it to conservatism, is kind of the point here at freerepublic, and I don't think that Obama loves us for it.
We don't love America because of the way that it spells it's name, or because of the geography, we love the America of conservatism, once it ceases to become America, then it is just another country.
“Reagan would do what he did do, fight for leadership in the GOP, defeat the moderates, take control of the party, become it’s leader, and be in command of a vast organization and brand, that mattered.”
And you may very well be correct. Mr. Reagan certainly had it in him to do it.
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