Posted on 12/15/2007 12:32:38 PM PST by FocusNexus
what is is, but to call someone a liar because they point this out is just mean spirited and denial. I am not saying what Reagan should have done, but I am pointing out what his actions tell me. Once again. The vote that stopped it all in the Supreme Court over and over again . . . Sandra Day O'Connor. A Reagan appointee.
Sandra Day O'Connor says all we need to know about Reagan's feelings regarding abortion. Look at her record.
Like the posters saying over and over again that Reagan "signed the most liberal abortion law" or was "adamantly pro-choice," or crap that Fred Thompson was "pro-abortion." Seriously, it's time the Mods start deleting these posts or Jim put out another ultimatum.
I know what you mean. Look at the last sentence in reply #161.
More BS. Reagan was a solid pro-lifer.
Granted, Sandra Day O'Conner didn't turn out conservative enough for most Republicans, even though she had the backing of Reagan advisers Meese and Schultz. Along with a solid endorsement from her personal friend and staunch conservative, Justice William Rehnquest.
Reagan wrote in his diary, pages 28 and 29:
"Called Judge O'Conner in Ari. & told her she was my nominee for Supreme Ct. Already the flack is starting & from my own supporters. Right to Life people say shes pro-abortion. She declares abortion is personally repugnant to her. I think she'll make a good justice."
"This morning I announced my nominee for the Supreme Court, Mrs. O'Conner of Ariz. I made some calls because someone has started a bonfire among the Right to Life people. Apparently it all started with a woman --- Dr.Gerstan in Phoenix. Her claims don't match the record we have of O'Conner's voting record when she was a state Sen. But she's spread her message far and wide."
No POTUS can be sure how his SCOTUS appointments will turn out after some time passes. How Roberts and Alito will turn out 10-20 years down the road isn't clear either. History has a way of fooling around with the best of intentions.
“Apparently, that hasn’t translated into more fundraising.”
Given the results produced per dollar to date, please tutor me about the relevance of your point.
This hits the nail on the head:
“A reporter asked Mr. Romney a pointed question about what he would say as a management consultant if one enterprise ‘spent about $7 million and one spent about $300,000 and they got the exact same results in market share.’ He was alluding to the approximate amounts Mr. Romney and Mr. Huckabee have spent respectively in (Iowa) so far. Mr. Romney bristled and said: ‘Sorry, I don’t have particular comment on that.’”
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/romney-begins-taking-aim-at-huckabee/?hp
“I do like (Romney’s) wife as well.”
Who is a former donor to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion service.
Who assured pro-abortion women in 2002 campaign appearances that they could trust her husband to protect abortion on demand.
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=GKwVNUz52vo
We’ve all heard Mitt’s stem cell story about when HE allegedly became pro-life.
When did Ann change HER mind on the issue, or does she loyally believe whatever her husband’s position-of-the-day is on any given issue?
I've read that roughly 70% of the illegal immigrants from Mexico left jobs there to come here.
Not that I blame them. With our borders wide open and no consequences to those hiring them, I'd probably do the same thing if I were in their position.
But it would hardly make me "oppressed" when I made that choice, would it?
Nope! And even if they were destitute, it's not our problem, it's Mexico's. And the more we bottle them up in the hell they have created (or rather perpetuated), the more likely a violent backlash by the people there will occur that will end it.
Being the relief valve for a bunch of mafia oligarchs is not what America was intended to be.
NOBODY LOVES PRESIDENT BUSH MORE THAN I!!! You are not alone. I think you are right about us being the minority here on FR.
President Bush has been a wonderful courageous president and many here and in the GOP have basically shiet on him. There is not a better way to say it (sorry)
Conservative talk radio turned on the President over immigration, and the mindless gop masses turned on him in droves, imho that is how it happened. It got so bad that I could no longer listen to some of the talk shows that I had listened to for some years. RUSH was pretty good though!!
Yes I know immigration is important.. in a time of was to see so many GOP abandon the president was nothing short of DISGRACEFUL!!! I am ashamed of them all!!
President Bush IMHO has given us far more than Ronald Reagan ever did. I hear people saying, he is no Reagan that`s for sure etc etc. Well thank God!! Reagan gave us 2 abortionists on the supreme court...and I have yet to read or here that Reagan was even disappointed in these picks.Sandra Day O was asked to be part of his funeral. Records released recently suggest he was happy with his pick of Sandra Day O'Connor.
Reagan was a great president (did not mean to bash) yes it`s true bush is no Reagan, but just as equally true that Reagan was no Bush.
President Bush has never pulled the troops out with their tails between their legs, many want him to do this. REAGAN did this!! So enough about how great Reagan was already...President Bush gets my vote, he is one of my heroes.
He was GREAT and had a steady hand on North Korean policy all the way up to 2006, until some key neocons left his administration, giving Condi Rice full reign (and vanquishing Dick Cheney) to power up traditionally embedded State Department forces of the appeasement camp--at the behest of Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill--to offer concessions to North Korea that have folks out here in Asian nearly apopletic! It has been an amazing about face as the Bush Administration has moved to adopt nearly every key approach on North Korea as the Clinton Administration under Madeline Albright.
Are you just ill informed, or dont you know of these and keep up to date on these realities?
It is no fun to have to say it.
Yes, a great big disappointment.
Bush gets deserted because he deserted the base and his initial beliefs.
Sorry, my love is not unconditional and I will not be seduced by photos of what Barney is up to these days under the Christmas Tree to guide or give meaning to my beliefs and philosophies and loyalties. This is serious, adult business. Neither I nor hundreds of thousands of North Korean concentration camp residents, nor US troops stationed in harms way below the DMZ, nor so many of us here in Japan, really care about those things--we care about regime change and the fall of Kim Jong il, neither of which will happen under George Bush's watch and final days of (barf), "legacy building".
This increases my respect for Mitt Romney so much.
He’s been my second choice all along and, if Fred can’t get it, I won’t feel bad voting for him.
You may be in the minority about your high regard for our President, but you are with the right kind of people.
I don’t get it. The Man had it goin’ for him, but he can’t keep his mouth shut.
Thanks be to God!
Me too.
I think we are going to have to go with Romney and take the risk that the Evangelicals and the like will sit this one out. That would be a big mistake on their part but it is the risk in a Romney nomination. The Huckster has fallen on his sword big time with his naive foreign policy statements. This simply adds to his terrible record on pardons and makes him dead meat as a Republican presidential candidate - IMHO.
Now if we can just get Romney to face the facts on Global Warming and stop kissing MSM's bottom on that issue maybe we have a candidate.
I HOPE SO!
I still have some hope Fred can make it but he is a long shot. If he is not the nominee then I am beginning to think perhaps Mitt is our best bet, though he too of course would be an underdog in the general election. Romney at least admits the prior liberal positions he’s taken are wrong, and now he is running on a pretty solid conservative platform. I hope he is savvy enough to know if he strays too far from the GOP base that this will cost him.
I would be more comfortable voting for Mitt if he has a very strong conservative as his running mate. I think perhaps Fred would be a logical choice. I will throw out the name of Gov Sonny Perdue also. Romney might need a southerner to counter the feelings that the evangelicals will not support him.
“W is the incumbent if you haven’t noticed.”
W is irrelevant to the inappropriate invocation of Reagan’s so-called 11th Commandment. Since Reagan clearly didn’t think it inappropriate to truthfully criticize Jerry Ford’s position on the Panama Canal and other issues, the so-called 11th Commandment obviously doesn’t mean that those who run to cover behind it suggest it means.
W has been under malevolent attack by the left for 7 years now. Huckster does himself great harm to chime in. Dissing W will get him no where.
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