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Historian: Ronald Reagan Would Disapprove of Cheney Treatment
newsmax ^ | 05/08/2021 | Sandy Fitzgerald

Posted on 05/10/2021 10:05:55 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The treatment of Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., by her fellow House Republican leaders and colleagues "simply for having a contrary opinion" on former President Donald Trump is appalling, and late President Ronald Reagan would never have approved, presidential historian Craig Shirley wrote in a new opinion piece.

"Cheney's only crime of course is her belief that the GOP needs to wash its hands of Donald Trump," Shirley, a biographer for late President Ronald Reagan, wrote for Townhall. "Otherwise, she's a tried and true conservative. And our movement is big enough to accommodate personal opinions.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 11thcommandment; cheney; craigshirley; fakenews; gopclubforum; gopestablishment; historian; liar; lizcheney; reagan; rinos; shirley; shirleyucantbserious; treatment; uniparty
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BS!

The select GOP participated in Treason and Sabotage for four years!


21 posted on 05/10/2021 10:16:15 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (‘’’)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

” And our movement is big enough to accommodate personal opinions.”

Sure. But not in. leadership positions.


22 posted on 05/10/2021 10:16:40 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"Cheney's only crime of course is her belief that the GOP needs to wash its hands of [sic] Donald Trump," Shirley, a biographer for late President Ronald Reagan, wrote for Townhall. "Otherwise, she's a tried and true conservative.

Using her own argument lets say we replace the name Trump with Reagan :

"Cheney's only crime of course is her belief that the GOP needs to wash its hands off Ronald Reagan," Shirley, a biographer for late President Ronald Reagan, wrote for Townhall. "Otherwise, she's a tried and true conservative.

Would she be ok with that ? Is it ok to want to rid the party of its most popular leader (who's a proven and hugely successful conservative), provided the person wanting so is a "tried and true conservative" ?

23 posted on 05/10/2021 10:17:24 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So Reagan would have said, “The all Republicans who impeached me under corrupt, false pretenses?”

I don’t think so.


24 posted on 05/10/2021 10:17:29 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, regarding the way a LOT of stuff has been going down the last 60 years I’d say a LOT of our founders have been wearing themselves out rolling in their graves.


25 posted on 05/10/2021 10:17:47 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: 1Old Pro

Shirley is one of the good ones, so I don’t discount his opinion...just disagree.
He has studied and written a ton about Reagan, knew him well. May have even worked for him in some capacity, iirc.

Back in RR’s day, politics operated with some small degree of comity, as opposed to now when there is none, nada, zero.

Nor is Cheney being tossed from Congress, (Wyomans will take care of that), just from leadership who know they can’t succeed without some 74M voters who love DjT.

His is one man’s opinion, but we’ll never really know.


26 posted on 05/10/2021 10:17:51 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Someone asked me to write a letter for a time capsule that is going to be opened in Los Angeles a hundred years from now, on our Tricentennial. It sounded like an easy assignment. They suggested I write something about the problems and issues of the day.And I set out to do so, riding down the coast in an automobile, looking at the blue Pacific out on one side and the Santa Ynez Mountains on the other, and I couldn’t help but wonder if it was going to be that beautiful a hundred years from now as it was on that summer day.

And then as I tried to write -- let your own minds turn to that task. You’re going to write for people a hundred years from now who know all about us. We know nothing about them. We don’t know what kind of a world they’ll be living in. And suddenly I thought to myself, "If I write of the problems, they’ll be the domestic problems of which the President spoke here tonight," the challenges confronting us: the erosion of freedom that has taken place under Democrat rule in this country; the invasion of private rights; the controls and restrictions on the vitality of the great free economy that we enjoy. These are our challenges that we must meet.

Ronald Reagan, GOP Convention, August 19, 1976

Reagan would hate Liz Cheney.

27 posted on 05/10/2021 10:18:27 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Reagan could never have made it to the office during Trump’s term....”never criticize another republican” ...ponder that one!

His back would have been mostly knife steel.


28 posted on 05/10/2021 10:18:28 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: Cen-Tejas

We have plenty of room in our party for Liz, and her views. But, the LEADERSHIP should represent the majority view of the party.

She should be replaced, ASAP.


29 posted on 05/10/2021 10:19:03 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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To: proust
"Now they invoke Reagan after speaking ill of Trump for 5 years."

Of course they do, because President Reagan can't speak for himself. Liberal historians and the liberal press love putting words in peoples' mouths whether they're dead or alive.

30 posted on 05/10/2021 10:19:18 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: ConservativeMind
Wow, that didn't come out right on my phone.

I meant to say, “Keep all Republicans who impeached me under corrupt, false pretenses?”

31 posted on 05/10/2021 10:19:22 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: pluvmantelo

Notice that it says “fellow Republican”. Since when is a RINO a “fellow” Republican except to a Democrat?


32 posted on 05/10/2021 10:20:24 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I don’t think so....


33 posted on 05/10/2021 10:21:10 AM PDT by wny ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Child please, when Reagan was POTUS China did not have favored nation status. Cheney’s husband works for a lawfirm that represents communist china!


34 posted on 05/10/2021 10:21:24 AM PDT by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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To: Cen-Tejas

Reagan called it “the 11th Commandment”. Liz basically wiped her backside with it.


35 posted on 05/10/2021 10:21:49 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That might be true, however Reagan did not see the treachery of the last 30 years by the Bush League Republicans.


36 posted on 05/10/2021 10:22:09 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: dead

You’re amazing!


37 posted on 05/10/2021 10:22:18 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (20 years on Free Republic, 12/10/20! More than 3700 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What she sowed. . .that will she also reap.


38 posted on 05/10/2021 10:22:44 AM PDT by Maudeen (https://thereishopeinJesus.com/)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This sentiment was in play when Bush jr was in office and it got us the longest war, the nazi sounding dept of Homeland Security, an astronomical european bank bailout on the backs of US taxpayers, and the constant threat of amnesty for illegals.


39 posted on 05/10/2021 10:23:10 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Much different times today than in Reagan’s time.


40 posted on 05/10/2021 10:23:26 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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