Is defeat probable for GOP if Reagan wins nomination?

The Christian Science Monitor ^ | March 5, 1980 | Richard J. Cattani

[Elsie]

We now have some GOP-e saying they will run a 3rd party candidate if Trump is the GOP nominee.

What ever happened to the WHIG party?

[Elsie]

The party fell apart because of internal tension over the expansion of slavery to the territories. With deep fissures in the party on this question, the anti-slavery faction prevented the nomination for a full-term of its own incumbent President Fillmore in the 1852 presidential election; instead, the party nominated General Scott. Most Whig Party leaders eventually quit politics (as Abraham Lincoln did temporarily) or changed parties. The northern voter-base mostly gravitated to the new Republican Party. In the South, most joined the Know Nothing Party, which unsuccessfully ran Fillmore in the 1856 presidential election, by which time the Whig Party had become virtually defunct. Some former Whigs became Democrats.

 

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)}

[Elsie]

Don’t forget...

Reaganomics & Voodoo Economics

[Elsie]

There ya go!

[Elsie]

“My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you that today I signed legislation that will allow student religious groups to begin enjoying a right they’ve too long been denied — the freedom to meet in public high schools during nonschool hours, just as other student groups are allowed to do.”

[COBOL2Java]

HELL YA! And guess the name of the family who were at the lead.

If anyone wants a hint, look up "Voodoo economics". It's the derisive term the GOPe's chief spokesman (and the head of this family) used to describe Reaganomics.

[Jemian]

And Reagan would get us into a war. And he would cut off all welfare. Immigrants hated him and would hate us more. And what does an actor possibly know about foreign policy? Heaven forfend we elect such a one.

He was the best president in my lifetime.

[COBOL2Java]

It is freaky how history appears to repeating itself. Political déjà vu.

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[COBOL2Java]

Well in to Reagan’s second term Trump called Reagan someone who talked a good game, but didn’t deliver. (Boy was Trump ever wrong).

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Well into Trump's second term, ifinnegan, with him doing everything he said he was going to do, will you admit you were wrong? Or will you just slink away, never to be heard again in Free Republic?

[CASchack]

You are right on the money. Reagan was the man for 1980 & 1984; Trump is the man for 2016.

[lucky american]

Trump is NO Reagan! Trump doesn’t even come close to being Reagan. They can’t compare Trump to anyone we’ve ever had for president. Trump is a Progressive Populist.

[COBOL2Java]

Trump is NO Reagan! Trump doesn’t even come close to being Reagan.

Well for that matter, neither does Cruz.

[Cato in PA]

Exactly. Reagan was ideal in many ways, but society has changed since he ran.

Part of the challenge of remaining relevant is to take tried-and-true ideas and present them in a new or different way to fit a new audience.

[Hugin]

For that matter neither did Reagan. The real Reagan signed things like amnesty, a tax increase and asset seizure without trial that would have a lot of today’s “real conservatives” up in arms. But he rebuilt the military, won the cold war and brought 20 years of economic growth, and is remembered as a great president. If Trump builds a wall and revitalizes the economy for the working and middle class, so will he be.

[r_barton]

Reagan also, as California Governor, signed an abortion on demand liberalization bill in 1967. After leaving the White House, he supported the Brady gun control bill in 1991 and the NAFTA free trade agreement in 1992.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Wow I was 16 at the time and was a big Reagan supporter, probably the first politician I ever supported, and I do remember all the heat he was getting. My brother had a Reagan bumper sticker on his car and his car got trashed so it seems times haven’t changed at all, let’s just hope Trump destroys Hillary in a landslide as well.

[Bryanw92]

>>I remember Ronald Reagan. I remember 1980.

I remember 1980 too. America was a much more civil nation then. The two parties did not work together to destroy the American middle class (yet). We didn’t have a permanent welfare underclass who could be called upon to disrupt and loot on command.

Go out and drive around for while. Watch how people will cut you off, cut in line, and get angry over the simplest things (like waiting 2 seconds to move after the light turns green). That is 2016 America. 1980 America is long gone. Trump is the Reagan for a nation of rude, impatient, angry people.

[OttawaFreeper]

In the 80s, we had ads like these that were not considered sexist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs0yVfd5wG4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKzcfBw-MqQ

Nowadays, it’s having Lena Dunham and other “feminists” talk graphically about their private parts.

[VRW Conspirator]

Donald is a PERFECT fit for today.

Ouch. So true.

[kidd]

And Clinton is worse of a candidate than Carter
Carter was like able and wasn’t a criminal