Posted on 04/03/2012 10:38:40 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
but a vanilla squish like Mitt Romney can?
Sorry, Barry. Your mouth ain’t squarin’ with reality once again.
I wonder if Obama inviting a comparison of himself to Reagan is actually a sign of desperation. It does not seem like a winning idea given what if anything Obamanomics has done for the country so far.
And on the topic of Reaganomics, wasn’t the turnaround accomplished in about 2 years or so, if that?
You’re right about ‘76 and ‘80 attacks on Reagan. But I don’t recall the huge sums of money being spent by Nelson Rockefeller that Romney has spent trashing the other more conservative candidates. I don’t recall the so called conservative media backing Rockefeller and calling him a conservative. Can you imagine William F. Buckley touting Rockefeller’s conservatism? You can’t. Well just take a look at his long running publication the National Review. They’ve come a long way to become full fledged RINO supporters.
Reagan picked GHW Bush but he also made sure the RINOs knew their place. GHW Bush was vice president but neither he nor the other RINOs were allowed to dictate to Reagan. While Reagan may have given RINOs like Sununu too much trust, I see that as a loyalty problem. Which is the same thing I see out of Palin.
It won’t matter to me if she endorses uber RINO Romney, she already supported RINO McCain. But I would still vote for her over all of them in a heartbeat.
Reagan was being a pragmatist. The dems and RINOs owned Washington DC when he was president. Now that we have the House with TEA party elected officials, we don’t have to pander anywhere near as much. Plus it’s been shown time and again that the more liberal the republican candidate, the less chance we have in the general election. Yet the unbelieving RINOs disagree and want even more pandering to the libs. They have not learned a single thing since 2008 but how to trash conservatives.
There is nothing pragmatic about that.
Exactly it would be a landslide.
Whether or not that is true, the most liberal governor in the history of the republic apparently can. Go figure.
The difference between Reagan and Gingrich is that people liked Reagan.
I’ve read a million ideas on why Gingrich isn’t winning, and it seems so simple. I’m not even sure that he is “liked but not well liked.” I just think he is “not liked.”
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