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I really don't care if the party leadership abhored Reagan...and I don't know how true it is. The bottom line is for me is Reagan won and became one of America's finest leaders.

If you want to use the history of Reagan's tenure after he was elected, then please consider using his history before he was elected. He hung in there, and changed the world.

The change you call for in leadership is not falling on deaf ears with me...but you don't affect that by walking away. You take yourself out of the equation. When those who care and work for change leave, those worthless leaders you despise will not cry, they will work further to consolidate their power and draw more people, people who don't care, into their realm of influence.

I really don't care if the party leadership abhored Reagan...and I don't know how true it is.

Take a look at this post and see if it rings any bells.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1950687/posts?page=403#403

The bottom line is for me is Reagan won and became one of America's finest leaders.

Yes he did.

If you want to use the history of Reagan's tenure after he was elected, then please consider using his history before he was elected. He hung in there, and changed the world.

If you think voting for the elder Bush in 1988 and 1992, and voting for Dole in 1996 and Bush in 2004 wasn't hanging around, you should do some reflection.

I have hung around. And here we are, looking at a slate of people who should be register under another party.

The change you call for in leadership is not falling on deaf ears with me...but you don't affect that by walking away.

Reagon couldn't gain traction in 1976. I'm not convinced he would have in 1980, if it hadn't been for the embecillic presidency of one James Earl Carter. Carter set the stage for one of the United States' greatest presidents. With Carter as a backdrop, it was easy for Reagon to sell true conservatism, even if he wasn't able to fully implement it over his eight year term.

In 1980, we weren't looking for a warmed over closet liberal to right our ship of state. We were looking for a man that understood conservatism and could sell it. Hell, he sold it to a massive number of democrats. Today we not only can't sell conservatism to our own clan, we don't even try. Folks like Hunter and Thompson are ignored in the quest to see which liberal can outlast the other. It's downright shameful what the party of Ronald Reagan has stooped to.

You take yourself out of the equation. When those who care and work for change leave, those worthless leaders you despise will not cry, they will work further to consolidate their power and draw more people, people who don't care, into their realm of influence.

The problem with that logic, is that it didn't hold true after Carter. People came to Reagan in droves. Even democrats did. If a conservative is lofted once again to be the republician leader, we'll be out here willing to support them. I just reregistered so I can vote in the primary for Fred Thompson. I would do so in the future, in the hopes of putting a conservative in office. I will not vote in people who are going to move this nation ever left, while the democrats are locked out of the White House. Why would I?

Thank you for your response. I appreciate it.