Posted on 12/14/2009 8:46:28 AM PST by kristinn
...Newt could have just as easily said here that conservative principles don't change, that the Reagan coalition is simply looking for leadership and that we need to bring more creative policy alternatives to the table than we have in the recent past. But that's not what he said. He said, "The era of Reagan is over. ... It's the end of the Reagan era."
This spat between Rush and Newt is simply ridiculous.
Look around you, does anybody can say that we live in the Reagan era? Or that Bush-43 were the Reagan era, or Clinton years, or Bush-41 were the eras of Reagan?
When Newt said on Rush's show that the era of Reagan is over it was exactly that, a statement of fact. He never said or implied that Reagan's principles or ideas are over, as he was for a long time about the only Reagan's flag carrier since Ronaldus Magnus left the office. It haven't been either of Bushes or McCain, Giuliani, Huckabee et al. Rush would not even let Newt finish his sentence... It was the strangest miscommunication I've heard on Rush's show.
The Reagan era left with him, his principles and ideas and good works live with us.
Please surrender ! The problem is anyone can Google and see all the Bush administration members talking about Mushroom clouds over US Cities 2002-2003 on TV. Bush and Cheney will never live that down, regardless of the faithful’s wishes. Cheney made other very unrealistic claims with that.
The Mark Levin/Hannity fans live in a bunker where all they hear is about how Bush was right (like dems depend on Obama for info about him.)
...all of which will either be dismissed as propaganda or rationalized away by the Bush administration apologists.
“The Fruit Loops on the right that made those statements about Reaganism being dead, or we need to move on, didn’t seem to understand that Reagan was a strong supporter of our Founding Fathers and our founding documents and ideals.
How are we supposed to move on from that? It displays a serious lack of understanding.”
Fruit Loops covers it pretty well.
I hired 2 ivy league clowns over the years. I had to fire both of them within one year.
;-)
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