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Rain clouds linger as Tea Party brews up a storm (Palin & Tea Party as Reagan redux?)
The Irish Times ^ | September 27, 2010 | Professor Richard Aldous

Posted on 09/26/2010 6:21:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 09/26/2010 6:22:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

At this point, who cares what the rest of the world thinks. This is a time to save America! There will be plenty of time to cater to the rest of the worlds socialists later...


2 posted on 09/26/2010 6:28:11 PM PDT by Deagle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dam this is pretty good!!! The guy knows his history..


3 posted on 09/26/2010 6:28:36 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Brices Crossroads; onyx
ping


4 posted on 09/26/2010 6:30:54 PM PDT by Al B.
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To: Hojczyk
Rubio screwed up he should have ran for governor...
5 posted on 09/26/2010 6:31:07 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The world is watching right now. Let’s show them in November that we reject socialism. Government is the problem! Get out of our way and let us prosper!


6 posted on 09/26/2010 6:32:24 PM PDT by RedMDer (Throw Them Out! Forward With Confidence!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Here's my simple comment...


7 posted on 09/26/2010 6:34:07 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA (Show me what Obama brought that was new and there you will find things only radical and destructive.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ll comment

When bambi took his road show over to europe they all met with him because he was “of color”

No other reason.


8 posted on 09/26/2010 6:34:12 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys)
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To: All

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Powerful speech from Mike Pence on the presidency:
http://vimeo.com/15202566

Exerpts:

“The president is not our teacher, our tutor, our guide or ruler. He does not command us, we command him. We serve neither him nor his vision.
It is not his job or his prerogative to redefine custom, law and beliefs; to appropriate industries; to seize the country, as it were, by the shoulders or by the throat so as to impose by force of theatrical charisma his justice upon 300 million others.
It is neither his job nor his prerogative to shift the power of decision away from them, and to him and the acolytes of his choosing.”

“The President of the United States of America bows to no man.
You do not bow to kings.
When in foreign lands, you do not criticize your own country.
You do not argue the case against the United States, but, rather, the case for it.
You do not apologize to the enemies of the United States.
Should you be confused, a country, people, or region that harbors, shelters, supports, encourages, or cheers attacks upon our country, the slaughter of our children, our mothers, our fathers, our sisters, and brothers… are enemies of the United States. And, to repeat, you do not apologize to them.”

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9 posted on 09/26/2010 6:35:05 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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10 posted on 09/26/2010 6:39:39 PM PDT by Tawiskaro
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Republicans could not have Thatcher, but they did get Reagan instead. The Tea Party can only hope they have a leader of similar stature waiting in the wings.

For that reason perhaps the most pertinent question of the day has become, “Which books are you reading at the moment, Sarah?”

Which books are you reading Professor; "Lassie Come Home" or the kind that is delivered to your house wrapped in brown paper? I'm a voracious reader but is that the standard by which we measure a decent, citizen candidate for public office? Are you taking your cues from Charles Gibson and Katie Couric?
11 posted on 09/26/2010 6:40:10 PM PDT by no dems (DeMINT / PALIN 2012 or PALIN / DeMINT 2012.......Either is fine with me!)
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To: Hojczyk

Rubio is not interested in focusing on states issues. His aim is much higher to be a part of getting the Feds to do their jobs so the states don’t have to. We are just fine where things are shaking out right now.


12 posted on 09/26/2010 6:40:21 PM PDT by mazda77 (Rubio - US Senate, West FL22nd, Scott/Carroll - FL Gov/LtGov, Miller-AK US Senate)
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To: Al B.

This is a fine article by a man who has studied recent American history and knows it better than the Harvard (un)educated skulls full of mush at the Politico, the Weekly Standard and NRO.

Some one alert Bill Kristol and his poodle McCormack that the terms RINO and winner are antonyms.


13 posted on 09/26/2010 6:41:35 PM PDT by Brices Crossroads
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
palin aint no reagan.

maybe after the coming decade of slapping about the head and face...

not now.

14 posted on 09/26/2010 6:42:25 PM PDT by mmercier (amateur hour has ended)
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To: Hojczyk
Rubio screwed up he should have ran for governor... ______________________________________________________________
Why do you say that? To position himself for a Presidential run?
15 posted on 09/26/2010 6:44:06 PM PDT by no dems (DeMINT / PALIN 2012 or PALIN / DeMINT 2012.......Either is fine with me!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Professor Aldous did a nice job until he asked Peggy Noonan to define the Tea Party, which shows that he hasn’t been paying attention to who the conservatives are.


16 posted on 09/26/2010 6:44:14 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("I'd rather lose fighting for the right cause than win fighting for the wrong cause." - Jim DeMint)
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To: mmercier

Palin is the closest thing to Reagan that we have seen since Reagan, and for many decades before Reagan.

Palin makes everyone think of Reagan, her enemies and conservatives alike can’t help but bring up Reagan comparisons.


17 posted on 09/26/2010 6:51:03 PM PDT by ansel12 ([fear of Islam.] Once you are paralyzed by fear of Mohammedanism...you have lost the battle.)
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To: no dems
palin aint no reagan.

The only possible contendors for POTUS 2012 that are close to her or equal in terms of being like Reagan are DeMint and Pence.

The others, including Myth, Huckabee, Pawlenty, Ryan, et all. are either compromisers on important issues or have voted for something they really should not have.

The one characteristic that Governor Palin has more than all the rest, is an unstoppable fighting spirit.
18 posted on 09/26/2010 6:52:33 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It seems Aldous suffers from the delusion common to all progressives, the belief that a society must be “managed” in order to prosper.

I would say this delusion, ironically, is a failure of the “systematic thinking” he seems to want to proclaim absent in Sarah Palin and the tea party movement.

These people continue to defeat their own intellect. Like a high school pole vaulter who in the peak of his training is only able to clear 14 feet, but repeatedly sets the bar at 17 feet only to miss again and again.


19 posted on 09/26/2010 6:54:46 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Rules will never work for radicals (liberals) because they seek chaos. And don't even know it.)
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To: mmercier
Welcome Back, Dad

I've been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we'd never see his like again because he was one of a kind. I was wrong! Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he's a she. And what a she! This was Ronald Reagan at his best -- the same Ronald Reagan who made the address known now solely as "The Speech," which during the Goldwater campaign set the tone and the agenda for the rebirth of the traditional conservative movement that later sent him to the White House for eight years and revived the moribund GOP. Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time around.

~Michael Reagan, Chairman of the Reagan foundation, conservative talk show host and son of President Ronald Reagan

20 posted on 09/26/2010 6:55:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Palin/Bolton 2012)
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