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To cheers and tears, defiant Putin sets out conservative agenda
Reuters ^ | 03/18/2014 | Timothy Heritage

Posted on 03/18/2014 10:53:20 AM PDT by goldstategop

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To: goldstategop

You long for a communist dictator?


21 posted on 03/18/2014 11:09:38 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: goldstategop

Of course, a complete reversal to the “days of yore” for Russia is a “reactionary” move and not a “conservative” move by Russia in politial terms. However, Reuters wants to use that term so that the negative issues of Russia’s move on the world stage are associated with “conservative” and negative connotations the media always wants associated with the term “conservative.”

Conservative would have been slow careful reform and revison, something that is not associated with anything in that unfortunate area right now.


22 posted on 03/18/2014 11:10:35 AM PDT by KC Burke (Officially since Memorial Day they are the Gimmie-crat Party.ha)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Sorry, but Reagan was not a communist dictator.


23 posted on 03/18/2014 11:10:44 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“Russian Reagan?” Reagan didn’t believe in a one party state run by a former secret police man. Reagan had faith in the people and didn’t want the government bothering them or interfering in their lives. Putin’s is an autocrat on a good day.


24 posted on 03/18/2014 11:11:12 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom.)
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To: goldstategop
Some cannot understand the concept of grudging respect.

Yes, Putin is our enemy. He wishes us harm.

But I can understand why the Russian people think he's t*ts.

25 posted on 03/18/2014 11:11:21 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: goldstategop

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/mar/18/vladimir-putin-annex-crimea-russia-ukraine-video


26 posted on 03/18/2014 11:11:37 AM PDT by varmintman
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To: goldstategop

Perhaps the word “conservative” fits...it’s obvious that a conservative (Putin) is much more intelligent, tactical, and successful than is our liberal progressive Obamadork/felon/quota boy. (And boy, do I mean BOY!)


27 posted on 03/18/2014 11:11:44 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

How many kids has Obama droned to death? How many Christians have Uncle Scam’s Al Qaeda allies slaughtered in Syria?


That’s a straw argument and false equivalence. Both putin and the kenyan can be worthy of opposition. You need to learn to multi task, FRiend.


28 posted on 03/18/2014 11:11:46 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: goldstategop

That is a scurrilous thing to say about President Reagan. He was not a communist.


29 posted on 03/18/2014 11:12:22 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Some people, the type who’d want to be associated with Putin as a “conservative,” are actually too ignorant of what conservatism is to be one. They’re simply worshiping power.


30 posted on 03/18/2014 11:12:30 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom.)
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To: ozzymandus

Hardly.

I do long for a great country with a strong government capable of defending our interests aboad and preserving our traditional values at home.

We certainly do not need to copy others to learn how its done. Americans are capable of doing that for themselves.


31 posted on 03/18/2014 11:12:42 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Samogon
I say: nuke them

Dude! Where do you live?

New Zealand?

32 posted on 03/18/2014 11:12:53 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise. H)
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To: Samogon

Where on earth are you coming from?


33 posted on 03/18/2014 11:13:16 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Fighter pilot manoeuvers"? One of the SaudiÂ’s we trained in Texas years ago?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
This is a back-handed way of smearing US conservatives by implying they are just like Putin.

Just like the Iranian clerics, by some baffling reason they are also "Conservative".

No word on Kim Jong Un - yet.

34 posted on 03/18/2014 11:15:02 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: wideawake

The Putin/Reagan comparisons are flying fast and furious on this thread.


35 posted on 03/18/2014 11:15:42 AM PDT by Borges
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To: trisham

I didn’t mean it in a derogatory manner.

I mean the Russians have a leader like we used to have in Reagan: patriotic, proud, defiant, steely and confident.

Those are things Americans liked about Reagan and that Russians like about Putin.

Not like the man-child we have in Obama.


36 posted on 03/18/2014 11:15:49 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

The words Obama and leader, like the words Obama and president should never be used in the same sentence.


37 posted on 03/18/2014 11:18:15 AM PDT by sport
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To: Borges

Yup - we shouldn’t go too far with them.

Russia is a worthy and determined adversary and we must treat it as such - with respectful resistance.

And Obama is not Putin’s equal and will never be.


38 posted on 03/18/2014 11:20:00 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: WhiskeyX

Putin is seeking to liberate ethnic Russians from nations that seek to mistreat and marginalize them. And is also standing with those who have chosen not to follow the west into the ditch of debauchery, abortion promotion and sodomy that liberals everywhere lead by Obama seem hell bent on driving us into.

I have no allegiance to a country which has forsaken freedom for an imperial presidency which actively promotes sodomy, abortion, debachary, and is aggressively anti-Christian. My allegiance is to freedom and to the free country into which I was born that apparently no longer exists.


39 posted on 03/18/2014 11:21:15 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: sport

Amen.

I can’t find one reason to like our own President and I find myself respecting his nemesis.

Welcome to our new reality!


40 posted on 03/18/2014 11:21:37 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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