Posted on 03/06/2010 11:49:19 AM PST by Al B.
Sarah Palin invokes him. Mitt Romney glorifies him. The "tea party" movement hopes to recapture him. And the Republican Party still can't get over him.
Six years after his death, and almost a century since his birth, conservatives are more transfixed than ever by Ronald Reagan, so much so that I fully expect a Gipper anxiety disorder to appear in the next edition of the psychiatrists' diagnostic manual.
"What would Reagan Do?" is a leading motto for the right. You can get the slogan -- or its WWRD acronym -- on a bumper sticker, a T-shirt, a coffee mug, a thong. There's even an iReagan app for your phone. And having renamed Washington National Airport for Reagan in the 1990s, last week congressional Republicans started agitating to have the Gipper replace poor Ulysses S. Grant on the $50 bill.
Such obsessions are not unique to the right: Writing three years after the death of Franklin Roosevelt, historian Richard Hofstadter noted that FDR so thoroughly monopolized the liberal imagination that his passing "left American liberalism demoralized and all but helpless." But today, conservatives are the helpless ones.
Reagan was the most popular and successful Republican president of the past century, so it makes sense that he would be the shining model for conservatives, just as FDR has been the gold standard for liberals. (No small irony, since Reagan voted for FDR four times and modeled his statecraft after the Democrat's.) But as the current occupant of the White House could warn, measuring yourself against historical icons is a recipe for disappointment. These days, President Obama is more likely to draw comparisons to Jimmy Carter than to Lincoln or FDR.
Yet ambitious conservatives are undeterred.
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did I mention Mitt is a Mormon?
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Huckabee didnt talk about Romney’s religion as much as Romney did...
Bad Romney...
Those who refuse to see him for what he did want the same end to what he did.
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Yes the occultist Joey Smith the founder of mormonism did come to a sticky end...ignoble death in a jail break shootout...
And those who do not see him for what he was do not have a happy ever after after life...
As for Romney... his end was not the White house...
and in 2012 it wont be either...
Rip:I blame Obamas win on the Mormon hating Huckster.
Nana: What did Mike Huckabee do that was so hateful to the mormons ???
All Mike Huckabee said was the truth...
Huckabee said that mormons believe that Jesus and Lucifer were brothers and that God was the father of them both...
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Are you angry at Mike Huckabee because he told the truth ???
Or because mormonism is an embarassment to mormons...
No chrsitian would ever believe such a thing...
but mormons do and they teach it...
The mormon leaders still teach that Jesus and the devil were brothers...
Russell Ballard, mormon apostle, was speaking to students at the mormon religious school, Brigham Young University about the media during February, 2010. He asked the students,
“Do you remember when Mr. Huckabee said that mormons believe that Jesus and the devil were brothers? It was all over the media...”
Ballard went on, “Well they are. Yeah we know it is true. The media and other non-mormons dont understand. That teaching is only for us since we have the higher knowledge. Only we understand that Jesus and Lucifer were brothers.”
The students laughed ...
you need to google her, she was elelcted mayor of her home town 2 0r 3 times and then elected Gov. of Alaska.
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