Really? Am I just imagining that he campaigned for the GOP nomination in 1976?
Reagan NEVER backed down on his conservative principles. He didn't attack other Republicans on their personal lives, but he attacked their policies all the time.
” Reagan NEVER backed down on his conservative principles. He didn’t attack other Republicans on their personal lives, but he attacked their policies all the time. “
Yes, and that included big government Republicans like Dole, who told Reagan that he couldn’t get his tax cuts through the Senate. Dole found out otherwise.
In 1968 Reagan ran against a sitting republican president, in 1976 he ran against a sitting republican president and almost beat him.
The first time he ran Reagan was a sitting governor already identified as a conservative leader, in his second run he was only months out of his second term as Governor of California, and he almost knocked off a sitting president as the counting went on after midnight “Ford prevailed with 1,187 delegates to Reagan’s 1,070”.
Reagan was a fighter for conservatism and was evidently ready to take out rino Republican presidents to move the party right.
“We don’t intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all.”- Ronald Reagan
bold colors - conservatism
pale pastels - RINOism