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Washington Post Column: Tear down this icon: Why the GOP has to get over Ronald Reagan
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| 04/26/2013
| Jennifer Rubin
Posted on 04/26/2013 7:48:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: FReepers; Patriots; FRiends
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posted on
04/26/2013 8:07:16 AM PDT
by
onyx
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To: Huebolt
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posted on
04/26/2013 8:07:21 AM PDT
by
Huebolt
(A country that has tipped will fall. RIP USA)
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posted on
04/26/2013 8:10:40 AM PDT
by
onyx
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To: SeekAndFind
El Rushbo is going to have a cow if he reads this. And I wouldn’t blame him.
Limbaugh’s theory is that more politicians in the GOP should be like Reagan and stick to their conservatism than should abandon it.
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posted on
04/26/2013 8:10:44 AM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(Our economy won't heal until one particular black man is unemployed.)
To: SeekAndFind
Tear down Reagan? Oh, hell, no. Not unless you are going to raise up George Washington in his place.
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posted on
04/26/2013 8:10:57 AM PDT
by
so_real
( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
To: Biggirl
The unfailing reverence on the American right for Ronald Reagan is understandable. He was the only exemplar of modern conservatism to win the White House, and unlike liberal icons such as Roosevelt or Johnson or Obama, he presided over an economic boom and became beloved by voters not normally drawn to his party.
I would have enjoyed the article had it ended here.
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posted on
04/26/2013 8:11:55 AM PDT
by
Ouchthatonehurt
("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
To: SeekAndFind
This is a foolish article. A 2% swing in the vote would have resulted in a Romney win. Given the huge number of Obama attack adds broadcast in swing states throughout 2012, and Romney's choice of a target for VP, it is not impossible to consider situations where a different result might have happened. Personally, while I am a big Paul Ryan fan, I think Rubio as VP would have resulted in a Romney victory.
I do think a more libertarian Republican presidential candidate could be more successful. Reagan came from the Goldwater wing of the Republican party, not the Rockefeller wing. Goldwater and Reagan were considered "small-l" libertarian in their day. Just read "Conscience of a Conservative" or listen to Reagan's early speeches.
As for Reagan being a man of the past, Reagan was beyond time. Reagan continues to give us the answers.
Ronald Reagan: Bold Colors - No Pale Pastels
Ronald Reagan: A Time for Choosing
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posted on
04/26/2013 8:15:02 AM PDT
by
magellan
To: C19fan
Kaus ran against Boxer for Senate in CA because “she wasn’t liberal enough.” He is a moonbat extraordinaire.
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
04/26/2013 8:16:33 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
To: Da Coyote
Ahem....Reagan will be around a lot longer than the Post Rubin.
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posted on
04/26/2013 8:18:02 AM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
To: magellan
To: SeekAndFind
That appears to be the problem. The GOP “got over” Ronald Reagan quite some time ago.
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posted on
04/26/2013 8:29:49 AM PDT
by
davisfh
To: SeekAndFind
Asking Jennifer Rubin to write about the Republican Party is like hiring Willie Sutton to work at your bank.
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posted on
04/26/2013 8:31:09 AM PDT
by
Colonel_Flagg
(Blather. Reince. Repeat.)
To: SeekAndFind
Republicans should stop invoking the name of Reagan because it makes them hypocrites. The minute he walked out of the Oval office the last time they dumped his small government philosophy and never looked back.
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posted on
04/26/2013 8:36:03 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: mrs9x
LOL. Yeah, McCain was a Reagan conservative.Sadly, at one time, he was. Then McCain was influenced by people like Jennifer Rubin and "grew" in his political views. Then he became the media's favorite Republican because he would criticize his former allies.
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posted on
04/26/2013 8:36:51 AM PDT
by
CommerceComet
(Obama vs. Romney - clear evidence that our nation has been judged by God and found wanting.)
To: SeekAndFind
The Washington Post wants to see more conservatives in office, so they are telling us what we are doing wrong.
Isn't that special?
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posted on
04/26/2013 8:40:00 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth." --Alan Greenspan)
To: SeekAndFind
LOL. Does the WP think the Dems should get over FDR and JFK?
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posted on
04/26/2013 8:41:57 AM PDT
by
kabar
To: SeekAndFind
They had a special about the Reagan presidency on one of the History channels last week. One of the greatest stories told by one of his advisers was about the Air Traffic Controllers strike. Reagan called a meeting and all of his advisers were arguing about how the strike should be handled (most thinking they should negotiate with the union). Reagan said nothing, he didn't even look up, most assumed he wasn't even paying attention, he just appeared to be doodling on a legal pad. After about fifteen minutes, Reagan raised his hand and silenced them, he did not ask for any advice, simply read the speech he had been “doodling” on his legal pad and informed them that he would be giving that speech in the Rose Garden in 10 minutes. That was his famous “ultimatum” speech to the Air Traffic Controler’s unions.
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posted on
04/26/2013 8:42:25 AM PDT
by
apillar
To: SeekAndFind
Rubin was born in the New Jersey suburbs of Philadelphia, and moved with her family as a child to California in 1968.
She attended college and law school at the University of California, Berkeley. Before moving into journalism, Rubin was a labor and employment lawyer in Los Angeles, working for Hollywood studios, for 20 years
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posted on
04/26/2013 8:43:46 AM PDT
by
kcvl
To: SeekAndFind
In January 2010, Rubin authored an article for Commentary Magazine asking “Why Jews Hate Sarah Palin”. The article was criticized by Heather Horn writing in The Atlantic as “illogical, poorly-argued, and anti-Semitic”.
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posted on
04/26/2013 8:45:01 AM PDT
by
kcvl
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