Posted on 01/21/2008 1:07:41 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
CONTEMPLATING the Clinton-Obama racial war, some Republicans were so excited you’d have thought Ronald Reagan had risen from the dead to slap around a welfare deadbeat.
Never mind that the G.O.P. is running on empty, with no ideas beyond the incessant repetition of Reagan’s name. A battle over race-and-gender identity politics among the Democrats, with its acrid scent from the 1960s, might be just the spark for a Republican comeback. (As long as the G.O.P.’s own identity politics, over religion, don’t flare up.)
Alas, these hopes faded on Tuesday night. First, the debating Democrats declared a truce, however fragile, in their racial brawl. Then Republicans in Michigan reconstituted their party’s election-year chaos by temporarily revivifying yet another candidate, Mitt Romney, who had been left for dead.
The playing of the race card by Hillary Clinton’s surrogates to diminish Barack Obama was sinister. But the Clintons are hardly bigots, and the Democratic candidates all have a history of fighting strenuously for inclusiveness. By contrast, the Romney victory in Michigan is another reminder of how Republicans aren’t even playing in the same multiracial American sandbox.
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Gee you never know it unless you did some research but welfare never actually got cut during the Reagan years. It didn't actually get cut until the Clinton years. Then again, if you were the type to actually research things you'd never be a Democrat or a liberal or a progressive or what ever the vogue term for socialist is these days.
As for George Romney marching with St. Marty, wasn't there a newspaper report back in the day that actually made that claim. I know Mitt denied it, but there were witnesses who actually saw the two march together.
You’re expecting far too much of this moron. He’s a THEATER critic, fer pete’s sake!
Obviously this article is just a bun with no Frank. Maybe if they put enough mustard on it, Democrats will eat it.
To Frank Rich: Yeah, Ronald Reagan is still dead and you’re still stupid and liberal (but I repeat myself). You and your fellow travelers can remain “stuck on stupid” — we Conservatives will continue to honor Reagan’s ideas and principles and search for leaders who will pick up the mantle of the greatest president of the 20th Century and attempt to bring the country back to that path guided by his vision of the shining city on a hill. Meanwhile, you and your ilk can follow the pant-suit to heaven-knows what kind of statist, Marxist America.
Anti-semites and racists maybe, but not bigots.
The H@ll you say? Bigotry is part of their stock and trade... without it they are nothing. Move America forward indeed.....The Dems will be the laughing stock of the new millennium if they nominate another one of these old time con artists.
Talk about the stupid party....
You work for the New York Times, Frankie. Perhaps it is YOU who should be slapped around.
“but the clintons are hardly bigots, and the democrats all have a history of fighting strenuously for inclusiveness....by contrast, the romney victory in michigan is another reminder of how republicans aren’t even playing in the same multiracacial american sandbox...”
herr goebbles would be proud. (that’s how a brilliant, superior, lover-of-humanity democrat gets away with calling republicans bigots, without using the word, thereby leaving some wiggle room to deny it.)
However, it's ever been thus. Although I loved most of Reagan's political positions, he got elected and re-elected because of his personality. Positions make things better or worse, but personality and political machines get you elected.
The best there ever was... probably the best there ever will be. Hopefully, I’m violating Reagan’s greatest attribute — his optimism — with that sentiment. Hopefully, our best days are before us and hopefully, there are some more Ronald Reagans out there in Gen-X, Gen-Y, etc.
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