Actual Reagan voters are now much older and dying, but the legacy lives in the younger generations. An important point was made since the election...that every candidate for president since Reagan was against Reagan in 1980. We had two Bushes, Dole, McCain and Romney. None are Reagan Republicans by choice. I think GWB actually carried about 2/3s of the Reagan legacy well, but clearly was a supporter of his father in 1980.
Our party has an entire generation of politicians now who grew up in the era of Reagan. Many were too young to vote, but they and their parents were inspired by RR. There is a huge opportunity to expand the legacy if we can get control of the party from the DC elite.
The tea party is very much a representative of the Reagan spirit. Point by point, it matches up to Reagan’s philosophy and his political agenda. It is up to us to educate a new generation. We need to sell why governors like Kasisch, Walker and others are implementing sound conservative solutions and why they work. We need to compare California with Texas. We have to educate the populace on the facts, and we can have another Reaganesque movement.
“Actual Reagan voters are now much older and dying”
I might be older than you but at 62 I’m not old at all AND I voted for Reagan both times.
The fatass is another socialist who would like to see an uprising among the conservative states and conservatives.
If the second revolution begins, don’t worry mikey, I’ll be at the front line that takes you into custody, confiscates 100% of your ill-gotten assets and then deports you like the loyalists of the first revolution.
McCain was the exception to that list of who supported Reagan in 1980, at least in the article that you are using.
Romney of course, was so anti-Reagan that he actually left the party, eventually in the 1990s coming to be a supporter and fund-raiser, and voter for democrats, before reregistering republican and investing 55 million dollars to take over the GOP, something that he accomplished in only 20 years, with disastrous results.
"What does this have to do with Ronald Reagan? As Dan McLaughlin pointed out, every Republican Presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan opposed Ronald Reagan in the 1980 election except John McCain. Think about that for a minute. Every nominee of the party cast by the media as an insane fringe of conservatives actually opposed, from the left, Ronald Reagan in 1980."
http://www.redstate.com/2012/11/20/ronald-reagan-and-what-i-got-wrong/