Posted on 12/02/2007 9:28:01 AM PST by Graybeard58
I don’t mind people who changed their minds on issues. Fred Thompson surely has. However, Romney and others have flipped flopped only when it has benefitted them politically. Their change seems to be the product of ambition. They can’t be trusted. In contrast, I trust Fred for the same reason many criticize him - he lacks the ambition and self-interest of the other candidates.
Cold Heat wrote: “Reagan had a lot of moderate support as he was a moderate. He was closer to Rudy then he was Fred.”
Pure bullchit! What freakin’ planet are you from, Mittwit?
I think the difference is that Reagan compromised on legislation to get key points passed (and to expose the RATS for who they really are). Romney compromised his principles to get elected.
He wasn’t really Rudy-esque because he was neither a nannystater nor a gun grabber like Rudy.
Yeah, I know he wasn’t “perfect” but he didn’t compare to Rudy.
Politics is a game of compromise. We can assign reasons to the whys to fit our own personal prejudices, but that doesn’t change the fact that all politicians compromise. I am sure Huckabee, Thompson, McCain, even Mr. Hunter have all compromised during their long political careers. What we must look at is what was accomplished by the compromises made. If we got better than 50% of what we wanted then we won and in politics as in negotiations and war that is the name of the game.
No, many of them did not take sides until the convention, to include Buckley, Thurmond, Tower, Connally, Dole (yes...Dole), Rhodes, etc. But that particular acid test holds true. By the way, in the case of Lott, he was working AGAINST trends in his own state. Had Mississippi held a primary the results would have been the same overwhelming vote for Reagan that Georgia/Alabama/Texas primary voters gave him.
Post 14 is the best post I’ve seen here in a long, long time.
Tower was pro-Ford and was outraged that he was shut out in the May 1, 1976, first ever TX Republican presidential primary. Reagan won all delegate slots, 96, I believe was the number.
I didn’t know that Buckley stayed neutral. But only Helms and Laxalt endorsed Reagan prior to Kansas City in 1976. I think Ron Paul in the House did too.
Bump for later to see the nuclear winter remains of the thread at post 3,227 next month.
If Tower endorsed Ford he took his time doing it. Ford went to Texas to get Connally’s endorsement and he not only declined but told Ford he was going to get his ass waxed. If the Texas delegation did that to Tower, good for them. Arizona did the same thing to Goldwater (and rightly so). The Republican rank and file, in Republican states were firmly behind Reagan.
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