Posted on 04/10/2013 6:56:24 PM PDT by Maelstorm
President Obama has been struggling to push his agenda through Congress and boost his popularity, but now there is another bit of bad news for him to chew on: A poll indicates that Obama would lose an election to Ronald Reagan, the champion of conservatism, if such a choice were possible today. And it would be a landslide.
Fifty-eight percent of Americans would choose Reagan, according to a survey conducted by Kelton Research for the National Geographic Channel. Reagan, a Republican who won the elections of 1980 and 1984, would even capture 51 percent of voters aged 18 to 34, even though young people were a key constituency for Democrat Obama in 2008 and 2012.
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I hope that she or someone like her runs. I want someone that doesn’t retreat when a liberal yells boo.
lol Yeah I always laugh at “Republican” consultants that recommend moving away from those issues to win. Seems like most GOP candidates in the north east embrace those issues and they get fewer and they get elected less and less. A fake GOP that is no better than a Democrat will always lose.
No but with all the talk about how we need to embrace liberal policies and positions to win Reagan still rides high and someone would have to be a total idiot not to understand what he meant to conservatism. He transcended the media by speaking in a plain commonsense fashion with stories that anyone could understand.
Yes. Why in the world would anyone follow someone who appears to stand for nothing and can’t even speak convincingly of the policies and positions he claims to believe? That is the problem. If you look at the GOP who win as bold conservatives you see a clear ability to articulate conservatism.
2016 is a make or break election for me. If the GOP force feed us another washy guy who can’t articulate conservative positions because he doesn’t really believe them I’m out. We ended up with someone who spent a billion dollars and didn’t hurt Obama at all. Now the same consultants who force fed us Romney are trying to blame conservatism for their loss.
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