No, Reagan Did Not Author the Republican’s 11th Commandment
By KITTY BENNETT
As the voting in Iowa draws closer, Republican candidates have sharpened their attacks on each other, drawing a rebuke of sorts from Fox News moderator Bret Baier last night at their debate.
“Ronald Reagan famously espoused the 11th commandment, thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican,” he said. “Yet to varying degrees during this campaign, you’ve all broken that one way or another, broken that vow.”
Neatly sidestepping the question of his own attacks on other candidates, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas responded by questioning the origins of the commandment: “Yeah. There’s an — matter of fact, I think that was the Republican chairman, not Ronald Reagan, that actually said that.”
And he is right.
It was during Ronald Reagan’s first campaign, for California governor in 1965, that the State Republican Party chairman Gaylord B. Parkinson issued his “11th Commandment,” which said, “Thou shalt not speak ill of any Republican.” And, Mr. Parkinson warned, “Henceforth, if any Republican has a grievance against another, that grievance is not to be bared publicly.”
Now quit yer damn bickering
Needed to go to all too
No one asked you to come on this thread, RINO-protector, for that is why you are resorting to posts like this. We know the history of what Reagan said. It has been coined as his phrase, “Reagan’s 11th commandment.”
Point is, is that Reagan said that he adhered to it in his goverenor’s race, and kept to it afterwards.
Now, do the same. No attacking fellow Republicans (what you are doing on this thread).
No attacking feelow Repubs. NOW. GOT IT? Now that you know what you have been instructed to do, you will go and do it. Have a good one.
Simple logic applies here, the people that are doing the criticizing: McCain, Rubio, McConnell, Graham, King, Ayotte, et. al. are not real Republicans. That is the issue, they are party infiltrators.