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Michael Reagan: The GOP Should Dump Its 'Litmus Test'
Front Page Magazine ^ | Feb 16, 2007 | Mike Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, heard on more than 200 talk radio stations

Posted on 02/16/2007 8:30:44 AM PST by meg88

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To: areafiftyone
Now that the Democrats swayed the independent/moderates, who mostly support the war, and won the elections, they are pandering to the most extreme left of their electorate.

We are too close to '08 for them to alienate that part of their most politically active base. The promise was, that they get their support on the grounds that they pull out of Iraq PDQ.
341 posted on 02/16/2007 10:18:00 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP
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To: unkus

The bottom line is destroying the DNAZI.

Then we can worry about third parties and litmus tests.


342 posted on 02/16/2007 10:18:12 AM PST by Killborn (Age of servitude. A government of the traitors, by the liars, for the sheep.)
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To: stockstrader
WHEN THERE ARE JUST SO DARN MANY OTHER ISSUES TO JUSTIFY OPPOSING HIM!

I have a hard time keeping track of them all, myself. I'm tempted to start a searchable database, but I'd have scaling issues.

343 posted on 02/16/2007 10:19:04 AM PST by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08)
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To: colorado tanker
Would a President Giuliani maintain the various federal abortion bans now in place, such as federal funding, aid to international organizations that promote abortion, and the current ban on abortions in military hospitals?

As for the gun grabbers doing "nothing" on gun control, you're already behind the times, my friend:

"H.R. 1022: To reauthorize the assault weapons ban, and for other purposes"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1785142/posts

The guns rights people had a good run there for a few years but now the balance of power has shifted in D.C. Are you seriously telling me Giuliani wouldn't gleefully sign an "assault weapons" ban that a Rat Congress and Senate sent to him?

344 posted on 02/16/2007 10:19:07 AM PST by LiveFree99
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To: askrenr
The Dim-O'Crats support their man.

Joe Lieberman?

If Lieberman had made it through the primaries you bet they would have supported him.

345 posted on 02/16/2007 10:19:22 AM PST by ItsForTheChildren
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To: dirtboy

Honestly - I agree with you.

No One - No One - will ever take that right away from me.

No President will ever challange the 2nd Amendment - no way.

FYI - a great new documentary is coming out:

http://www.secondamendmentdocumentary.com/

Make sure all your mates check it out.


346 posted on 02/16/2007 10:19:25 AM PST by Jake The Goose
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To: meg88
Ronald Reagan had one litmus test he applied to candidates. Were they Republicans? If they were he backed them all the way.

Proof that Reagan was, indeed, wrong sometimes.

By the way, has Mitt Romney ever explained in detail *why*he changed his mind on abortion?

347 posted on 02/16/2007 10:19:25 AM PST by Sloth (The GOP is to DemonRats in politics as Michael Jackson is to Jeffrey Dahmer in babysitting.)
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To: Reagan Man
>shakes head in frustration<

I am not saying by today's standards he is a conservative ( though on fiscal and defense I would say he is) I am saying that back in Reagan's period in the party (60-92) he would have been considered a conservative.

On Rudy, we will probably always disagree I just hope we don't get disagreeable, I enjoy our debates :)
348 posted on 02/16/2007 10:19:46 AM PST by spikeytx86 (Pray for Democrats for they have been brainwashed by their fruity little club.)
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To: dirtboy

The second amendment has nothing whatsoever to do with hunting.


349 posted on 02/16/2007 10:19:54 AM PST by Armedanddangerous (Master of Sinanju (emeritus))
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To: xsmommy

..oh definitley not.....being the the Beltway gives you alot of perspective....but then again....many and I'm not saying "you", in the beltway are far removed from what mainstream American thinks....I thought Rudy was a dead duck but he is totally charasmatic and one of the best speakers out there.....very influential.....


350 posted on 02/16/2007 10:20:02 AM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: zbigreddogz

Yeah right. You liberal FReepers always seem to have a difficult time making much sense to us conservatives. Know wonder you zing me, but don't ping me. Best you stay away, chickenlittle.


351 posted on 02/16/2007 10:20:20 AM PST by Reagan Man (Conservatives don't vote for liberals.)
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To: Killborn

Oh make no mistake

If it comes between Rudy and Hillary, I will hold my nose, vote for Rudy and hope for the best.

I imagine most everyone else with a brain will also.


352 posted on 02/16/2007 10:21:55 AM PST by Armedanddangerous (Master of Sinanju (emeritus))
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To: Jake The Goose
No One - No One - will ever take that right away from me.

Rudy took guns away from long-term permit holders.

No President will ever challange the 2nd Amendment - no way.

Rudy suppored a gun-control bill proposed by Bill Clinton in the aftermath of a shooting at the Empire State Building in 1997.

353 posted on 02/16/2007 10:22:03 AM PST by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08)
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To: Armedanddangerous
The second amendment has nothing whatsoever to do with hunting.

Rudy seems to think that if we all can go duck hunting, our 2nd Amendment rights are safe and secure. Meanwhile, he took guns away from long-term NYC permit holders - and you know how hard it was for those people to get them in the first place.

354 posted on 02/16/2007 10:23:30 AM PST by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08)
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To: NorCalRepub

well if you are in CA, that you find rudy palatable doesn't surprise me, as with people from NYC. but my roots are in PA and OH where my relatives are, and they are equally unenthused about Rudy and while they worked for Bush [their first political campaigns ever, and i am talking people in their 40s, not young kids] would not do the same for a rudy candidacy. not only is rudy a very flawed candidate with a ton of baggage that WILL be used against him, i don't see him winning against Hillary. The lib dems i know, while not being enthused about her, will vote for her over Rudy.


355 posted on 02/16/2007 10:23:39 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: spikeytx86
>>>>>>shakes head in frustration

Ditto.

I understand what you're saying. That's why I said we disagree, strongly. How much clearer could I be. Rudy wasn't a conservative in the 50`s, 60`s, 70`s, 80`s 90`s or here in the 21st century either. By any standards of 50 years ago, or 50 years from today. Got it now? I hope so. Thanks.

356 posted on 02/16/2007 10:25:22 AM PST by Reagan Man (Conservatives don't vote for liberals.)
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To: dirtboy

Let me guess - you did not live in NYC in the late 80's or the early 90's.

If you had - you wouldn't be so quick to crash on Rudy's moves.

NYC was completely out of control - I challenge you to identify one single law abiding gun owner in NYC whose arms were "taken away"..

No way - it did not happen.


357 posted on 02/16/2007 10:25:24 AM PST by Jake The Goose
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To: dirtboy

I wonder if everyone here realizes that under Rudy, NYC residents had to apply for permission to own a SHOTGUN to keep in their home? Permits were needed and rather large fees had to be paid.

How many of you in a red state would like to be forced to apply to the government to have a permit to keep a shotgun or a deer rifle in your house, much less a handgun?

And the police could come to your house and seize your gun any hour of the day or night without due process.


358 posted on 02/16/2007 10:25:39 AM PST by Armedanddangerous (Master of Sinanju (emeritus))
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To: xsmommy
so why are we talking about cutting noses off to spite faces in a general election that is 2 years away and no candidates have been nominated yet?

Reading the post I responded to should answer that question.

359 posted on 02/16/2007 10:26:56 AM PST by Mordacious
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To: Jake The Goose

Sorry Jake

It did happen..people with semiautomatic rifles..not just AR-15s and such..but Ruger 10-22 squirrel hunting rifles and other similar hunting rifles had NYPD detectives at their doors to ask them to get the guns out of the city.


360 posted on 02/16/2007 10:27:46 AM PST by Armedanddangerous (Master of Sinanju (emeritus))
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