Posted on 12/02/2007 9:28:01 AM PST by Graybeard58
Hmmmm ..?? Maybe “Republicans” wouldn’t .. BUT CONSERVATIVES WOULD.
I wish people would realize that being a repub does not make you a CONSERVATIVE.
As a “conservative” I’m unfortunately required to vote Republican .. because voting for any democrat is suicide.
Actually, though, he was more of a libertarian than Mayor Giuliani, and he was much more strongly in favor of personal rights than many FReepers would like.
On immigration, he made a mistake, but I doubt he'd have done it again. These candidates have seen the effects of Reagan's action and we must judge on whether they want to repeat the mistakes.
Apparently so...........
> I remember well the outright disdain that many conservatives had for Reagan.
Yes? Who? I remember the election of 1980 well: it was my first election ever, and I paid attention to everything. I remember that the idiots on our college campus were calling Reagan a Fascist and a Nazi and would often disrupt our student GOP “get out the vote” tables. I didn’t get a chance to work on the campaign as much as I wanted since I was a freshman and overloaded with work, but I don’t recall any conservatives who had the kind of serious misgivings we have today with Rooty, for example.
I'll cede you that point. It is true.
As a general rule, I don't read the article if the first or second sentence is a blatant lie.
Needless to say, I did not finish the article.
Reagan did have to compromise on somethings but it is without a doubt that he was ardently pro-life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHY4482EP9Q
He did not just profess a quiet shift to support Pro-Life causes he became a premier spokeperson for the effort.
Reagan also successfully slashed the capital gains tax to 20%.
Reagan may have entered into diplomatic relations with the Evil Empire but he did not purse his lips in his condemnation of it. He was not looking to lead the world to war he was starring the enemy in the face steadfast and sending a clear message that he would not capitulate to their propaganda.
The difference between Reagan and the current crop of wantabees is they don’t seem to have a consistent or inspiring message. They seem cowed as if they are holding a baby with a stinking diaper when talking about abortion. They don’t seem to be able to imagine the horror of killing the unborn that should be present in any human being with any sense of humanity within them. They dance gingerly around the sex activists afraid of being called bigots and give lip service to those who would send our economy into oblivion in search of a solution to global warming to please a mythological consensus of misanthropic doogooders and bureaucrat scientists looking for government grants.
Reagan may have compromised on some issues but the one place he never did was in his heart. He knew what he believed in and he believe in the rightness of America and its continued strength in the world.
I hope personally that Fred Thompson will rise in strength of voice because though he be not Reagan he is of the same stripe. He knows how to talk from the heart and to the place in the chest of the common man which calls them to be uncommon men. That is what a leader does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8_G-mlKxTY
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
Reagan took stands that no one else would take. Most Republicans were happy to coexist with the Soviets and make big money in the defense industry. Reagan had the guts to use our military to advance American interests while the media was still obsessing over Vietnam. And biggest of all, Reagan took a severely wounded America after Carter nearly destroyed it, and made it great again.
It's people like the author who don't remember the real Reagan.
28 years is a long time ago, and putting President Reagan's positions and accomplishments in the context of today's political situation is a form of science fiction that is hard to accomplish. It's the entire person, not the individual pieces.
What? He crushed Carter
It was a situation much like we have now, where you get nanny-staters claiming to be "conservative" and not supporting individual freedoms like Reagan pushed.
>>but for now, destroying “traitors” in the Republican coalition is our political porn, its addicting.
>Apparently so...........
Sigh. Is it wrong to try to get the strongest conservative force in the primaries? Haven’t you been noticing the slide of the GOP into the stinky morass of fiscal degeneracy, toothless capitulation to radical leftists and their agenda, smashing holes in our borders and sovereignty etc. — EVEN when the GOP was in the majority and we had the presidency as well? Did you notice this at all?
Trying to reverse that trend is akin to being a porn addict in your eyes? Honestly, that is really insulting.
But what does "pro-life candidate" have to mean? What do you expect a president to do?
B.S.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
No NAFTA, no WTO, trade deficit less then 50 billion. Sure I would have voted for him.
Amen. Even Hunter and Thompson aren’t “ideologically pure”, but they are far and above the best candidates in the current GOP field...
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