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McConnell looks to cement legacy as ‘Reagan Republican’ with crusade for Ukraine support
Fox News ^ | April 9, 2024 | Julia Johnson

Posted on 04/09/2024 8:19:57 AM PDT by McGruff

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is planning to devote much of his energy in the remaining months of his term as Republican leader, as well as the next few years of his term, to ensuring Ukraine is supported as its war with Russia rages on.

"It may not be fashionable now, but I’m a Ronald Reagan Republican: peace through strength," the longtime Senate GOP leader said during a speech in Shelbyville, Kentucky, per local outlet the Kentucky Lantern.

McConnell has been a proponent of continued support for Ukraine, even after members of his party began to push back.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Ukraine; War
KEYWORDS: bidenrepublicans; killkillkillforpeace; mic; senate; spending; ukraine
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1 posted on 04/09/2024 8:19:57 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Yeah. Good luck with that, McConnell, you POS.


2 posted on 04/09/2024 8:20:45 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: McGruff

More like a “Biden Republican”.


3 posted on 04/09/2024 8:20:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: McGruff

“It may not be fashionable now, but I’m a Ronald Reagan Republican:...”

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No, you’re not.


4 posted on 04/09/2024 8:22:40 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: McGruff

McTurtle doesn’t have sufficient character to qualify him as Reagan’s T.P. holder!


5 posted on 04/09/2024 8:25:48 AM PDT by Iron Munro (When Islam dominates democracy, freedom and non-Islamic people die)
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To: McGruff
It may not be fashionable now, but I’m a Ronald Reagan Republican

It is fashionable now, and you're NOT a Reagan Republican.

6 posted on 04/09/2024 8:28:40 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: McGruff; All

The world has changed immensely from Reagan’s day.

To blindly apply his policies in the modern era is nothing short of...blind.

The closest analog to the Soviet Union is CHINA. And Europe is MORE than capable of providing their own security.


7 posted on 04/09/2024 8:29:55 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: McGruff

When did Reagan want to turn Ukraine into a CIA-backed puppet state to foster eternal war with Russia?


8 posted on 04/09/2024 8:30:03 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: McGruff

Remember the movie “Groundhog Day”?

For Mitch Groundhog Day is November 4, 1980.


9 posted on 04/09/2024 8:32:33 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: McGruff

How does that work Mitch? More of this rebranding Reagan crap. Reagan disliked war, and never had the slightest predilection that fighting Russia was a lifelong mission. He was pleased at the idea that that things were massively improved by him.

Other than Grenada, a punitive raid on Libya, and a humanitarian intervention in Lebanon, Reagan launched no wars.

Reagan liked Trump.


10 posted on 04/09/2024 8:35:19 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: rlmorel

Try a single topic bill?


11 posted on 04/09/2024 8:37:58 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: McGruff

Reagan wasn’t a warmonger, nor would he have supported the globalist agenda in Ukraine you old decrepit fop Mitch.


12 posted on 04/09/2024 8:39:32 AM PDT by dforest
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To: McGruff

RINOs have been on a mission in the last twenty years to recast Reagan in the image of George Herbert Walker Bush. If Reagan were still alive, he would be a solid supporter of MAGA.


13 posted on 04/09/2024 8:39:55 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: McGruff

I think McConnell’s grasp of English is slipping. It is not peace through graft. The US has beclowning herself with Gv’t members slavering like hungry dogs for a piece of the $ sent to the Ukraine.


14 posted on 04/09/2024 8:40:40 AM PDT by JayGalt (DEI = Didn’t Earn It)
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To: McGruff

Mitch McConnell... attempting to identify as a Reagan Republican??? When unicorned pigs fly. He would first have to BE a Republican... and he has been nothing even close for decades.

I suspect that his ChiCom masters have instructed him to at least try to clean up his image and legacy for some future position in their glorious new regime. At least... that’s their promise (lie) to keep him on their plantation until they can manage to eliminate him as one of their minor current problems. His usefulness is coming to a very unglorious end.


15 posted on 04/09/2024 8:46:46 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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Mitch’s legacy will be cemented as a demented Obama Republican


16 posted on 04/09/2024 8:53:07 AM PDT by Quentin Quarantino
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To: McGruff

He means “Ford Republican”

McConnell likes us to forget that he supported Ford over Reagan in ‘76.


17 posted on 04/09/2024 9:03:18 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: McGruff

President Reagan was a good President who became our leader when our nation needed him.

It isn’t different with President Trump.

“The right man, for the right time” is something they have in common, even though the issues & eras are different.


18 posted on 04/09/2024 9:22:22 AM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: McGruff
Just like a turtle, showing up 40 years late.

The world has changed, Cocaine Mitch.

19 posted on 04/09/2024 9:25:45 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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“How does that work Mitch? More of this rebranding Reagan crap. Reagan disliked war, and never had the slightest predilection that fighting Russia was a lifelong mission.”

Misguided and backwards.

Ronald Reagan: “We must not break faith with those who are risking their lives—on every continent from Afghanistan to Nicaragua—to defy Soviet-[Russian] supported aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth.”

Under Reagan the U.S. helped undermine the Soviet/Russian occupation of far off Afghanistan - Afghanistan that surely offered no direct threat to the U.S.

Under the Reagan Doctrine, the United States provided overt and covert aid to anti-communist guerrillas and resistance movements in an effort to “roll back” Soviet[Russian]-backed pro-communist governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In addition to supporting Warsaw Pact nations breaking away from their Soviet/Russian occupation.

[And how do you think a Presdient Reagan would react today Russia the Russian military presence in Syria, in league with the dictators in Iran?]

How do you have things backwards?

It is not the U.S. that has soufht “lifelong war with Russia”, but the other way around. As the Soviet Union ended, and particularly after Putin took over, it was Russia, under Putin, who did not abandon Soviet policies toward the West, but made them the policies of Russia. All the U.S. Presidents after Reagan sought military and nucleart deescalation policies and agreements with Putin, all of which he reneged on. Putin has never sought a relationship with the west differing greatly from the Soviets.

Reagan would have understood that were he with us today.

In many ways the Soiviets adopted and expanded the age of imperial Russia, and now in many ways Putin is trying to again apply the precepts of imperial & Soviet Russia to foreign policies today.

Reagan would not have been fooled by it.


20 posted on 04/09/2024 9:27:59 AM PDT by Wuli ( )
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