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Cokie And Scarborough Not Sure Reagan Could Get Elected In GOP Today
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 02/12/2013 7:11:04 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

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To: familyop

That is total crap. Duncan Hunter is not national material. He was fizz in California but bust out of his area


41 posted on 02/12/2013 8:30:53 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
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To: cotton1706

That’s it exactly. Altho I do think Palins support was soft enough in certain areas to make her vulnerable. I don’t see her doing well against Gingrich in debates ... and the first part of the GOP primaries recently has been about Conservative going after each other before going after the moderate ( who ends up being the nominee). Gingrich would see her as the first obstacle to get past before knocking off the other Conservatives and then finally going after Romney.

A Paul - Rubio contest in 2016 would be preferable. But my guess us that there are four or five other Conservatives in it as well. So we end up with a repeat of 2012: three final candidates of which two are Conservative and one GOPe ( or at least percieved as such ... I still need to do more homework on Rubio).


42 posted on 02/12/2013 8:32:21 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Cokie And Scarborough Not Sure what time zone there in.


43 posted on 02/12/2013 8:49:35 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Reagan wasn’t necessarily elected because of his stances on the issues....he was elected because people saw him as a true leader, and he had the political savvy that it took to win over people, even if they didn’t agree with him on everything he said.


44 posted on 02/12/2013 8:51:28 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I’m not sure Ronald Reagan would have stayed in the republican party of today!!!


45 posted on 02/12/2013 8:57:05 AM PST by ontap
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To: ontap
I’m not sure Ronald Reagan would have stayed in the republican party of today!!!

He stayed in it while the Rockefeller Wing held sway.

46 posted on 02/12/2013 8:59:00 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

No, RINO Scarborough could not get elected as a republican.
But he could elected as a liberal democrat, which is what he has became since the started working at PMSNBC, where his main role is to bash conservatives, most notably Sarah Palin.


47 posted on 02/12/2013 8:59:18 AM PST by NKP_Vet
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Well, if that’s true, why do so many candidates evoke his name and try to convince people they’re from the same mold?


48 posted on 02/12/2013 9:04:31 AM PST by edpc (Wilby 2012)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Reagan today would not be pro “assault weapons” ban. He was pretty good at assaying reality.


49 posted on 02/12/2013 9:05:45 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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Hey Admin...when are you going to restore my posting privileges? How much longer am I going to need to be baby sat? The site is looking for support, how inclined am I to support a website which I can not post unless someone baby sits my words? Not very..... I've been here for over 13 years....but I won't be around much longer if this keeps up.
50 posted on 02/12/2013 9:12:19 AM PST by rightwingextremist1776
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

51 posted on 02/12/2013 9:20:22 AM PST by McGruff (You are either with us or you are with the RINOs.)
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To: kosciusko51

Their last two candidates were McCain and Romney. What more centrism do these people want?


52 posted on 02/12/2013 9:23:24 AM PST by Tublecane
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To: cotton1706

Newt a clear-voiced conservative? Maybe he’s a better spoken than Romney. He’s also prone to say stupider and Frazier things occasionally. As far as ideology goes, between him and Romney it’s six of one, half a dozen of the other.


53 posted on 02/12/2013 9:28:09 AM PST by Tublecane
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I'm not sure Cokie or Joe could even make it out of the womb if today's Democrats had their way.
54 posted on 02/12/2013 9:28:18 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (TYRANNY: When the people fear the politicians. LIBERTY: When the politicians fear the people.)
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To: cotton1706

“Historical heft”? More like baggage.


55 posted on 02/12/2013 9:29:43 AM PST by Tublecane
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Those people are worthless, just like their opinions.


56 posted on 02/12/2013 9:30:34 AM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: bert
"That is total crap. Duncan Hunter is not national material. He was fizz in California but bust out of his area"

And here we are, manufacturing base continuing to disappear (sustainable revenues disappearing with it), most Americans sucking on recirculating debt, two socialist political parties fighting with each other over whether to funnel more federal debt to federal offices or to funnel more of it to state and local governments. Meanwhile, our fearless leaders are trying to sponsor dissemination of as much panic and hysteria as they can to the population.

Rule by oligarchical hens and their "yes, ma'am" effeminates. Government by spying, gossip, false allegations and robberies. Pathetic.

Good government is necessary. A vain transvestite, looking for trouble, is not good government. Without moral conservatism, a nation devolves into fiscal socialism.


57 posted on 02/12/2013 9:36:07 AM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: Tublecane

Newt was part of the conservative movement since the 1970’s. In deeds he has demonstrated his conservatism. He cut spending and balanced budgets, eliminated committees in the House, limited the terms of committee chairmen and the speakership (his own office), he cut congressional staffs by a third and forced Bob Dole to do the same, he kept passing welfare reform till it was signed, he passed tax cuts through the House, he let the ICC expire (the first time an agency ever went away), he ignored seniority and put conservatives in charge of committees (unlike Boehner, who did the opposite), he wasn’t afraid of shutting down the government (also unlike Boehner). This is just a sampling. In actual deeds, Gingrich is a conservative.

Romney on the other hand, raised taxes and fees here in MA, pushed through Romneycare, was pro-choice then pro-life, loved mandates, refused to associate himself with conservative groups. In 1994, a conservative wave year when Bill Weld was re-elected with 70% of the vote, Romney lost to Ted Kennedy. Had Romney campaigned with Weld, and been not so mushy moderate, he could have beaten Kennedy.

This is all water under the bride, of course. But I’ll take Gingrich’s actions over Romney’s words any day of the week.


58 posted on 02/12/2013 9:40:35 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: stanne

“First order of biz get those hostages OUT”

That’s not really something the Reagan administration did, but had done for them, considering they were released on inauguration day. How cpuld it have been first order of biz if by the time there was a Reagan presidency there were no histagrs? Unless you believe in conspitacy theories about people on his side, for instance Bush the Elder, deliberately delaying release until after he was president.

“Afleck left that out”

Maybe because “Argo” was about the rescue of the Americans hiding in the Canadian embassy, not the hostages themselves. Though obviously it was about the hostages, too, tangentially. I don’t think there was any obligation to go into the diplomacy or the ‘80 campaign or otherwise explain how, exactly, the 52 or whatever got out. There were a few things to complain about politically, if you were lokoking fir a fight, with “Argo.” How they portrayed the Shah, the boons on the street news footage, or Carter’s cameo, but that’s nitpicking, really.


59 posted on 02/12/2013 9:44:06 AM PST by Tublecane
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To: stanne

“First order of biz get those hostages OUT”

That’s not really something the Reagan administration did, but had done for them, considering they were released on inauguration day. How cpuld it have been first order of biz if by the time there was a Reagan presidency there were no histagrs? Unless you believe in conspitacy theories about people on his side, for instance Bush the Elder, deliberately delaying release until after he was president.

“Afleck left that out”

Maybe because “Argo” was about the rescue of the Americans hiding in the Canadian embassy, not the hostages themselves. Though obviously it was about the hostages, too, tangentially. I don’t think there was any obligation to go into the diplomacy or the ‘80 campaign or otherwise explain how, exactly, the 52 or whatever got out. There were a few things to complain about politically, if you were lokoking fir a fight, with “Argo.” How they portrayed the Shah, the boobs on the street news footage, or Carter’s cameo, but that’s nitpicking, really.


60 posted on 02/12/2013 9:44:27 AM PST by Tublecane
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