[jwparkerjr]

Rudy IS like Reagan in that both stand up to their enemies rather than find nice things to say about them. I have said here before that the press was unfair to Reagan too, but rather than slink back into the Oval Office and think up nice things to do for the liberals to prove them wrong he simply ignored them and went on the next thing they didn't like. It was like he had a list of things he knew would yank their chains and when they messed with him he would take out his list and use the top two items to mess back.

We began to lose the battle when the Republican majority after the conservative revolution would not respond to the lies and spin being used against them. Their policy was that the truth would speak for itself and responding to the barbs only gave them a wider audience. That's not the case, and we know that now. There's about one third of the electorate anxious and willing to believe any lie or spin that supports their hate for the conservative cause. Not having a team to counter the lies and spins as quickly and vociferously as possible gives a aire of truth to the charges. The little things add up and before long you find yourself where we are now.

I agree that Rudy is no Reagan, but they are similar in some respects.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It was a great Reagan attribute.

[trisham]

I agree that Rudy is no Reagan, but they are similar in some respects.

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They're both humans from the planet Earth, I'll give you that.

[Revenge of Sith]

One interesting comparison that I remember was in 2000 when Dick Morris predicted on the O'Reilly Factor that George W. Bush would do better with black voters than other Republicans(obviously this didn't happen) because Bush the compassionate conservative "isn't a scare figure like Ronald Reagan and Rudy Giuliani."