[kjo]

Sorry, you are never gonna convince me that any of the above are good enough to shine RR's shoes.

[Dead Corpse]

Same here. Especially in light of the fact that Reagan cut taxes at the Federal level. Sounds like the Left is trying to re-write history to make the RINO's look more "moderate".

[x]

Sorry, you are never gonna convince me that any of the above are good enough to shine RR's shoes.

And who is?

Your sentiment got expressed a lot in 1988 and 2000.

People forget that now.

[cripplecreek]

I don't know what's more offensive about these articles. The fact that they make a comparison between Reagan and Rudy, or the fact that they think we cave man like conservatives will buy it.

Another source of irritation is their feeble attempts to categorize everyone. According to most of these articles I'm one of the moderates who supports Rudy but I don't.

[GSlob]

"Sorry, you are never gonna convince me that any of the above are good enough to shine RR's shoes."
Then you need to commit a grave robbery and clone RR from whatever tissue might be available. And then you'll have to wait 35 years till the clone becomes constitutionally eligible. Thus 2043 at the earliest, just in time for the 2044 campaign. Nice and great, but what are we to do till then?

[Wolfstar]

Like any historical figure who passes into myth, the real flesh-and-blood Ronald Reagan is hard to find anymore. He was a great man, yes, but there is no doubt whatsoever that if forums like FR were around in his day, he would have been just as vilified by the "real" conservatives as GWB is today. Maybe even moreso.

As president, RWR commtted a terrible strategic blunder when he cut and ran from Lebanon after the Marine barracks bombing. We are still paying for that blunder today.

As president, RWR signed the only amnesty for illegal aliens in U.S. history, thereby establishing a terrible precedent and opening the floodgates.

As president, far from taking the kind of hard-line stance with the Dems that many FReepers crave, RWR was congenial toward them. He socialized with Tip O'Neill and other Dems. He found ways to work with them to pass legislation. His jibes at them came in the form of gentle jokes and not gratuitous meanness.

As president, RWR did not nominate very conservative justices to the courts. He chose Sandra Day O'Connor for one reason only -- to put a woman on the court. That was the opposite of what on would expect of a "real" conservative.

RWR gave us huge budget deficits during his presidency.

I could go on, but suffice it to say that these and other decisions he made would have received the same hostility on FR, had it existed, as is presently directed toward GWB.

[longtermmemmory]

This is about the left trying to push the Republican Party to the far left.

It is the Chritine Todd Whitman school of weakness.