It is wonderful to see this decades old, long standing corrupt political system disintegrating right before our eyes. This corrupted system hates working Americans. It rewards illegals and those who bring them into America to freeload off the American workers slaving in the faux conservative plantation.
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For those of us over 50, we remember what it was like to have a truly great leader in the White House.
For those under 50 on this board...you have been cheated, for the last 28 years, you have witnessed “Conservatism Lite.” As you can imagine, it is never as good as the real thing.
Reagan was elected by the grassroots of the Republican Party, a beneficiary of an earlier movement led by Phyllis Schlafley, who wrote “A Choice Not an Echo”, which she sold over 3 million copies out of her garage, 1964!
The book was about fighting the corrupt Republican establishment “kingmakers” who had ignored the grassroots for years. Goldwater lost that election but we got our reward in Ronald Reagan.
A wonderful video is available here Phyllis speaks at 5:40 to 15:42 Totally worth your time to watch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q_pbiFiKC8
Pat Buchanan’s frustration with the Bush family was echoed by many “Reaganites”. The grassroots and Reagan himself, did not like the Bushes, but we got stuck with Bush Sr. as a marriage of convenience in 1980. The Reaganites were luke warm on George Bush, who with his New World Order Speech set up what eventually became to be known as the Bush Doctrine which has been destroying the Republican Party for years.
As a result of the one term election of Bush Sr in 1988, then the subsequent 2 elections of his son, George “W”, the Republican Party “Establishment” results in the Bushes having tremendous the Republican National Committee and all of its appointees and patronage job.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-10-30/news/8503140468_1_vice-president-george-bush-republican-presidential-nomination-party-regulars
Vice President George Bush, seeking to establish his position as front-runner for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination, Tuesday named a 456-member ``winning team`` to help GOP candidates in 1986.
The steering committee, a Who`s Who of moderate and establishment Republicans from across the nation, is formally working for Bush`s political action committee, the Fund for the American Future.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-08-28/news/mn-6056_1_fund-raising-efforts
Bush Appoints Mosbacher as Chief GOP Fund-Raiser
http://articles.latimes.com/2000/dec/22/news/mn-3399
“President-elect George W. Bush has picked Virginia Gov. James S. Gilmore, a tough-minded, tax-cutting conservative with a talent for raising money, to become the chairman of the Republican National Committee, according to party sources” The announcement will be made today in Austin, Texas, sources in Richmond said. Gilmore’s selection must be ratified by the RNC next month.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/27/former-rnc-staffers-join-jeb-bushs-different-presidential-campaign-team-as-superpac-rakes-in-huge-donations/
Not only has the Bush team developed an integrated campaign strategy among these three organizations that is highly sophisticated, it appears to have been able to staff it almost entirely from existing relationships within the RNC and Republican establishment
Thanks for your excellent walk through history and Reagan with links.
Those of us who were around during the Reagan win in that election know how hated he was by our party!
Well done
You get it
“For those of us over 50, we remember what it was like to have a truly great leader in the White House.”
Amen brother. I remember at 18 voting for Reagan in my first national election.
Having lived through the late 70’s with “Mr. Peanut”, he was literally a gift from God and an optimistic future.