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To: FreeReign
So the electorate of this country needs to be lead away from its high spending proclivities?

Isn't that what Reagan did? Didn't Reagan veto 78 spending bills during his time in office??

That's hardly a conservative solution -- is it.

Are you saying Reagan was not a conservative?

The soldiers in the filed want to defeat the enemy.

Reagan won 44 and 49 states in his respective national elections. He didn't do it by pandering to the lowest common denominator.

If the electorate doesn't care, then why the hell should the politician president?

What if the electorate does care? We'll find out this November (or December, as the case may be..)

363 posted on 02/06/2004 10:48:24 AM PST by AntiGuv (When the countdown hits zero, something's gonna happen..)
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To: AntiGuv
So the electorate of this country needs to be lead away from its high spending proclivities?

Isn't that what Reagan did? Didn't Reagan veto 78 spending bills during his time in office??

Reagan's first first three budgets were roughly the same or even higher as a percentage of GDP compared Bush's.

That's hardly a conservative solution -- is it.

Are you saying Reagan was not a conservative?

Reagan had higher spending as a percentage of GDP, a citizenship amesty, a tax increase and believe even a "CFR" type limitation on free speech law passed in about '86. What would YOU call that?

If the electorate doesn't care, then why the hell should the politician president?

What if the electorate does care? We'll find out this November (or December, as the case may be..)

Do you think the electorate cared back in 2000 when the majority of them voted for either Gore or Nadar?

368 posted on 02/06/2004 10:58:21 AM PST by FreeReign (Anno regni)
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