Posted on 11/04/2014 9:33:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Republican debate about the shape of the political future has begun, typically for conservatives, as a fight about the past. As President Obama has become a Jimmy Carter-like figure — hapless, luckless and increasingly friendless — most prospective GOP presidential candidates are positioning themselves as Ronald Reagan’s rightful heir. A thick fog of historical analogy has settled over the Republican field.
“It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan,” argues Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), who clearly sees (and admires) a resemblance to the latter in the mirror each morning. “I’m a great believer in Ronald Reagan,” claims Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), even while proposing a Carthage-like destruction of Reagan’s foreign policy. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has called Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) “the son of Ronald Reagan when it comes to national security” — though Rubio is actually young enough to be Reagan’s great-grandson.
The squabble over this inheritance is recounted in a recent essay by Henry Olsen and Peter Wehner, provocatively titled, “If Ronald Reagan Were Alive Today, He Would Be 103 Years Old.” (Credit the editors of Commentary for knowing how to push conservative buttons in the good cause of bringing more eyes to an important article.) Olsen and Wehner are, in fact, deeply respectful toward Reagan, whom they describe as the greatest Republican since Lincoln. They warn, however, that “the constant invocation of Reagan’s name to bolster arguments for present-day policies (and present-day politicians) actually hinders our understanding of the substance of Reagan’s legacy — and undermines the Republican Party’s ability to make a case for itself in the here-and-now.”
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If only.
If only!
Well we ARE in the “Worse than Carter” “Black Hole” that is Barack Hussein Obama.....
(Black hole used here is an astornomical term for a collapsed star that has an surface escape velocity greater than “c” or the speed of light)
[ Republicans are stuck in a Reagan time warp
If only! ]
“Let’s do the time warp AGAIN!”
No, Democrats are stuck in a Wilson/FDR/LBJ timewarp.
I will take a Reagan-fueled time warp over a Karl Marx time warp any time, any day, by a factor of 10,000.
Democrats are stuck in a Karl Marx time warp.
You forgot JFK.
Yeah, who in their right mind would want to back to the Reagan years.
We all had jobs.
Post of the week!
Conservatives look back 30 years to revisit the successes of Reagan and try to reproduce them.
Liberals look back 80+ years to revisit the failures of Hoover and try to reproduce them.
Democrats are stuck in a Wooodrow Wilson, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter time warp.
Exactly.
The Washington Post is stuck in a time warp of its own. This rag is still fixated on the Watergate era and retains its anti-conservative bias going back to the 1960’s. The Post is a total piece of garbage.
It’s just a jump to the left ...
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