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If Ronald Reagan ran today, where would he fall on the conservative spectrum?
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| february 25, 2015
Posted on 02/25/2015 10:01:01 AM PST by detective
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The article uses a single number to rate each candidate. There is no one number to compare Ronald Reagan to conservatives today. Reagan's accomplishments such as winning the cold war, ending the high levels of terrorism in the 1970's and early 1980's encouraging the tearing down of the Berlin War, ending double digit inflation and ending years of stagflation and creating a growing economy are not the issues of today.
Still it is interesting to see how the Washington Post compares Reagan to today's Republicans.
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posted on
02/25/2015 10:01:02 AM PST
by
detective
To: detective
The GOPe and ‘donor class’ would probably undermine/sabotage him at every turn, and he likely wouldn’t even get nominated.
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posted on
02/25/2015 10:03:17 AM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: detective
Let me guess. Almost as Conservative as Obama?
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posted on
02/25/2015 10:04:18 AM PST
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: detective
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posted on
02/25/2015 10:05:19 AM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
To: detective
Reagan would be considered a RINO today.
He did nothing to stop abortions.
He did not veto tripling of federal spending in 8 years.
He gave blanket and instantaneous amnesty to all illegals!
Today, he would be considered a first class RINO.
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posted on
02/25/2015 10:07:28 AM PST
by
entropy12
(Real function of economists is to make astrologers look respectable.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Reagan, should he reappear today, would be slightly to the right of Atilla the Hun.
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posted on
02/25/2015 10:07:46 AM PST
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: KoRn
Yes; it would be a repeat of 1976, but upped by several degrees.
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posted on
02/25/2015 10:07:48 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: detective
Why would the WaPost want to write an article about this topic?
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posted on
02/25/2015 10:08:30 AM PST
by
Cowboy Bob
(Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
To: entropy12
he was pro-life
Congress writes the budget
he had a deal with Democrats, they lied and he said it was probably his biggest mistake as President
- no he would not. Today’s RINO are members of COMINTERN compared to Reagan
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posted on
02/25/2015 10:09:07 AM PST
by
GeronL
To: entropy12
So you’re saying the country was further left in the 80s than it is today?
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posted on
02/25/2015 10:09:42 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: GeronL
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posted on
02/25/2015 10:10:09 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: detective
A very useful image to define the big government types - Christie, Jebby and Santuckabee.
And imho, if Ronald Reagan were running today, with the state of the world and country as it currently is, he would be right on top of Ted Cruz.
To: detective
This is about the dumbest comparison I've ever seen.
For starters, CPAC is not what it was thirty years ago.
Secondly, fundraising has NOTHING to do with how conservative a person is.
And finally, Rand Paul isn't conservative on ANYTHING, he's a libertarian populist.
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posted on
02/25/2015 10:12:24 AM PST
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: detective
This site only bases him on his 1980 and 1984 performance. He was politically conservative in 1968 too.
I read an article from Look magazine in the late 1960s and it sounded like a Ted Cruz rally the way they reported on Ronald Reagan, his positions, and the crowd.
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posted on
02/25/2015 10:14:45 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
To: entropy12
Today, he would be considered a first class RINO.So interesting. And JFK would be to the right of Ted Cruz.
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posted on
02/25/2015 10:16:36 AM PST
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
To: Jim from C-Town
Let me guess. Almost as Conservative as Obama? But the culture has changed so voters of today are not the same as the voters of 1980.
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posted on
02/25/2015 10:16:46 AM PST
by
Cowman
(How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
To: detective
Liberals love to pretend that Reagan would be a Democrat today and that he was too liberal for today’s GOP.
Apparently none of these people have ever been to a Tea Party event, where Reagan is routinely invoked by name and in spirit.
Progressives are demented, uninformed, untethered nitwits.
We desperately need another Reagan.
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posted on
02/25/2015 10:18:16 AM PST
by
navyguy
(The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
To: KoRn
They tried to do so in the 80s, but are stronger now.
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posted on
02/25/2015 10:18:35 AM PST
by
Ingtar
(Is this the Ebola and rumors of Ebola mentioned in the Bible?)
To: entropy12
You are a liar, Reagan is not considered a rino.
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posted on
02/25/2015 10:19:13 AM PST
by
ansel12
(Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
To: ansel12
Actually Reagan IS the RINO.
Look at the history of the GOP, Reagan is an outlier, and when he left office, with the Bushes, they went right back to ‘business as usual.’
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posted on
02/25/2015 10:20:12 AM PST
by
dfwgator
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