Posted on 12/14/2009 8:46:28 AM PST by kristinn
I’ll never forget casting my first ever vote for this man once I turned 18 and graduated high school in 1980. My most satisfying vote ever.
Carter was an absolute disaster for the country. Things were incredibly bad in the late 70’s.
Reagan saved this country from itself.
Maybe they were old people who have had Alzheimer’s set it within the year.
The President with the most “common” education was Lyndon Johnson and he completely screwed up the country. Where one receives their education has no bearing on who they turn out to be.
Having said that, Bob Riley should be President.
Especially after 9/11.
Bush was great on 9/11, but too soft on other things. I was never convinced he was any Reagan.
5 presidents was the cut-off.
“Obama 47
McCain 45
Don’t remember 8”
Surely a couple of percent didn’t vote, even emong likely voters
Bush could not hold a candle to Reagan in presenting ideas to us average Joes. “Tear Down this wall” was Reagan’s. Reagan was inspiring.
With Bush we got “Bring it on” to the troublemakers in Iraq. Sounded great, till they did. Bush was depressing.
Over half the population wasn’t alive or cognizant during the Carter administration.
"... I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy."
~~~ President Ronald Reagan
“The same polling company released a survey a few days before this one that showed forty-four percent would rather have George W. Bush back in office now rather than Obama. “
I love the “MISS ME YET?” Poster! LOL!
Um, have you looked at who was advising Johnson? A bunch of Ivy League grads, starting with Robert Strange McNamara, Harvard MBA, Harvard undergrad.
The wreckage of the financial implosion has shown that indeed, where someone went to school has had a bearing on who they turned out to be - at least in finance. Harvard MBA grads take on more risk than people without the Harvard Biz School experience. And now we’re paying for their risk.
As for the POTUS with the most “common” education, I’d put that as Harry S. Truman, not Johnson. Truman is the only POTUS since 1897 to not have a college education.
For a hint of what was to come by electing the Ivy Leaguers to power, I’d put forth Wilson as the prototype, and history shows Wilson to be one of our very worst presidents.
My point still stands about Reagan: He was the last POTUS in the last 20 years to have not come out of Harvard or Yale (or both). Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr and now Obama - all pulling the nation on a downhill trajectory, all Ivy League grads, staffing their administrations with Ivy League graduates. Obama has stepped up the take-over of our government by Harvard a notch above the prior three, I would add. Bush had two SecTreas’s who were not from Harvard - and he fired both of them to get a SecTreas with a Harvard MBA pedigree. Turns out that guys like Snow were right. Not politically convenient, but they were right.
If true, then the GOP ought to be able to get ~20% of the black vote if we do it right.
Interesting, since Obama still has 96% approval among blacks.
You're right! But "doing it right" requires that we not pander to the black vote and sponsor "black issues".
Instead, what it will require is being openly and honestly conservative. Promoting conservative principles to black audiences will do more to attract black votes than promising what Democrats promise. And, in the long run, will better benefit the black community -- along with the white community and the Latino community and the Asian community, etc....
Absolutely. However, acknowledging things that blacks percieve as issues (racism, health care, jobs, education) will go a long way. This does NOT mean we start paying for handouts, instead, present conservative solutions to these things.
From what black acquaintences have told me, they feel the GOP just ignores what they percieve as important issues.
Addressing them doesn’t require becoming Democrat-lite though. Instead, show them how conservatism can help them.
Who cares about what benefits these communities? We should be "smart" and pander to the PC elite. /s
I miss him...LOTS!! sniff:(
Addressing them doesn’t require becoming Democrat-lite though. Instead, show them how conservatism can help them.
The GOP's institutional approach to blacks is pathetic. It begins and ends with half-hearted pandering...and no serious attempt to address legitimate problems for blacks. Much less promote conservative solutions to these problems.
Fact is, conservative solutions aren't race-dependent...
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