You think Ronald Reagan was not an active campaigner? Ronald Reagan was elected president, and despite what you may think, he was a fiscal conservative. People try to claim he wasn’t now. But he had to deal with Tip O’Neill & Congress. They pushed spending to astronomical levels. They even backed him into signing a bunch of tax increases. That’s why people say he wasn’t a fiscal conservative. But he was. But he had to deal with this little thing called the Constitution. There’s a legislate branch. There’s judicial branch. The president’s power is balanced. You may not like the Constitution, and you are free to try to change it.
All those people who are telling you they will have a magic wand are blowing smoke. Maybe you should take that into consideration. Candidates who promise the moon sound nice, but they are naive and/or lying.
Reagan was a fiscal conservative.
(more recent examples: President Obama promised to close down Gitmo and end war when he became president. Woopsy, that didn’t happen)
What the heck are you going on about, and how does this answer anything that I wrote?
I don’t recall saying anything about Reagan not being a conservative of any sort. I don’t even remember bringing Reagan into this conversation at all, unless you think your boy Rick is Ronald Reagan back from the dead. Which, he honestly isn’t much like Reagan at all.
I’m talking about platforms here. Who has the most experience as a leader and pushing through legislation? Who has the most vigor in promoting other candidates and helping us gain a larger majority? Who has the strategy and the enthusiasm to come up with new ideas or to champion new ideas?
You’re sitting here rambling about Ronald Reagan and how we can’t do anything. I’m sitting here talking about which candidate can help us retake congress and push good legislation.
But since you have this love affair for Saint Rick, you’re blinding yourself to his real character and you’re embracing his lack of ambition and vision.
Unlike the current occupier.