[DB]

I'll just say if you think Reagan was the perfect conservative, your memory is fading. He campaigned for pseudo conservatives. He put a couple on the Supreme Court... What was Reagan's first rule? Don't speak badly of other Republicans? Remember that drug war thing taking private property without due process?

You've forgotten the bad and only remember the good.

That's fine, but it isn't a fair standard for someone to have to live up to.

[Carry_Okie]

You've forgotten the bad and only remember the good.

In the habit of projecting are we? Reagan signed one of the most destructive gun control measures in history. His choice of Bush for the second term was a disaster. He failed to promote a series of ideological successors. I could go on and on.

What I am talking about here though, was his defeat of the Soviet Union and reinstatement of American exceptionalism via deregulating the American economy, particularly oil prices and environmental access, an idea of depth and subtlety unlike any President we have seen in 100 years. The measures crashed the price of oil which deprived the Russians of foreign exchange currency, without which they could not support their war machine, particularly their navy.

Sarah Palin shows no such subtlety or insight. Instead, she appears to me to be easily manipulated by the very mechanics you are suggesting. Hence, I'm not persuaded by your judgment there.

[Carry_Okie]

BTW, thank you for a respectful exchange of differences.

We agree to disagree on differences of emphasis, but in the right direction.