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Posted on 02/23/2016 7:58:24 PM PST by Baynative
RUSH: There's another story here, folks, not sure how this is going to be received at the Rubio camp. "Lawmakers are flocking to support Marco Rubio's White House campaign after former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush dropped out of the GOP race on Saturday. A slew of Republicans in Congress who previously backed Bush are moving to support Rubio as he battles GOP rivals Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Rubio's campaign announced ahead of Tuesday's caucus in Nevada that Sen. Dean Heller (Nev.) and Rep. Mark Amodei (Nev.) would be backing his campaign."
And some representatives from Florida that were all Bush backers are now moving over to Rubio. Bob Dole says, "As much as I love John Kasich, you know, Rubio is probably a better candidate. And he's young." I guess it means Kasich isn't, so Bob Dole on ABC -- do we have this? Yeah, grab sound bite number 30. I mentioned this earlier. This is Rubio on The O'Reilly Factor last night. Answer this for yourselves, but I'm not sure that this is what on-the-fence, if there are any, conservative primary voters actually want to hear.
(Excerpt) Read more at rushlimbaugh.com ...
Could you please ask Nancy to forgive Reagan on his behalf for not doing exactly as you would have. Purity at all costs. Reagan, was in fact, a fiscal conservative. I could care less what a purist thinks.
You could have some sort of point if Reagan had not vetoed the Congressional budgets, and had his veto overridden.
But since that was the case, you are trolling.
“Rush is panicked.”
He admits he is feeling the heat from the Trump people. He threw in the Cruz crowd but I do not believe that at all. He has been a big supporter of Cruz.
NOTE: (Multiple posts are a pet peeve of mine, too)
[school bus sized (paraphrased)]
Well, I would guess the KH-1x’s had some real-time imaging, a VELA package, some neat IR imaging for cruise missile detection, a cool secure data relay system or three, some GPS tracking on targets, some sort of SIR systems for cloud and ground penetration, and some significant amount of hydrazine on board for re-tasking.
At a minimum. :)
Oh and some spectral analysis equipment, too.
Hail Mary “hope we can win Florida” pass.
President has the VETO. If he does not like any spending bill, he can veto that bill. Congress can override any veto with substantial majority vote, but at least the president goes on record as having vetoed the bill. I did not hear about many vetoes by president Reagan of spending bills. If you know otherwise, please provide dates and which bill he vetoed.
Thank you for posting. I was able to hear some of it on radio today but not all of it. So it was a good read.
He makes it clear that he is not trying to take the side of any candidate until the primaries are decided. He pretty much tells it like it is regarding all of them.
You realize that not all of us are on FR 24 hr a day, right?
So multiple posts of the same thread, if it’s an interesting one is actually good not bad.
So stop being a posting Nazi!
Wendle - you are clueless.
It’s 1958 again. People have NO IDEA what conservatism means.
A lot of brilliant people dedicated their lives to conservatism and it mattered. Now, they are replaced by Trump and Savage.
Weep for your children.
In California and in Chicago aliens. legal and illegal already have the vote on local issues. In the registrars offices and in Democrat Party counsels they are told to go ahead and vote on whatever else is on the ballot because who is gonna know?
Also, in doing searches I often find that stories are already posted multiple times with slightly varied titles of different sources.
and I think the mods do a a damn good job of keeping things working well for us. - That's why I've been a monthly donor for as long as I can remember.
M4L rush
The Cold War was still raging during those budget battles.
After the defense cuts during the Carter Administration, President Reagan’s number one priority was re-building the military. Unfortunately, the Democrats realized that and maneuvered as many of their spending programs as they could into defense bills. He couldn’t veto the bills unless he wanted to allow the military to continue its decline.
Should he have been more fiscally disciplined? Perhaps. But the fact the Berlin Wall no longer exists is pretty solid testimony in his favor, IMO.
Reagan’s fiscal policy revolved around getting the government out of the way to let the private sector flourish. Tax policy was central to this strategy. Some very fine scholarship recognizes the tension between Reagan’s fiscal libertarianism and the big government forces pulling the other direction:
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2001/03/the-real-reagan-economic-record
So it is revisionist to paint Reagan as an advocate of big government. His clearly conservative tax policy led to perhaps the greatest peacetime economic expansion in US history. Conservative principles work, when put to the test.
As for NAFTA, I honestly don’t see why this freaks out modern conservatives. It was, at least in theory, nothing less than a commitment to free market principles writ large. And, like supply side economics and conservative tax policy, it was central to American prosperity during that period.
Would I rather have Reagan’s overall economic policy reinstated than the few intelligible signals coming out of Trump? You betcha.
Peace,
SR
My job at a government funded lab also had contracts to do work on start wars. I did a small part in that contract. By no means my main job at the lab, which was engineering of particle accelerators. The particle accelerator was many miles long.
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