Posted on 05/06/2009 12:13:04 PM PDT by Reagan 2.0
Remember Bush 1 was an opponent of Reagan. He used to attack Reagan’s tax cut as voodoo economics
And Jeb Bush ended Terri Schiavo.
Bush 41 gave us the KKKlintons.
Bush 43 gave us Obama.
Keep out da Bushes. They have ruined this once great country.
good ‘on target’ post!
Recent GOP failures:
IKE=Earl Warren
Nixon=Spiro Agnew
Nixon=Not destroying tapes
Ford=not leaving in 1976
Ford=Carter
Reagan=George HW Bush
Bush(41)=Bush(41)
Bush(41)=Clinton
Bush(43)=Obambi
However, much later at Reagan's funeral he said he learned more from Reagan than any other person in Washington.
“New ideas” like gay marriage, abortion on demand, and so on? Or is there some “new” economic plan that will work better than low taxes and less regulation?
People need to be educated on “old ideas” because they WORK.
Yes, the old ideas work. And that's why they are called "conservative".
However, the mechanisms by which you put those ideas into play change with the times and political situations.
Reagan was a powerhouse in the Cold War and he should be taught as such.
But the nostalgia Bush was speaking of isn't healthy for the current age in which we have a WOT. New rhetoric needs to be employed as the younger generation moves into the future.
WTF? Why can they get facts correct. He is the son of GHW Bush. I just don’t get it.
I'm thinking this media yokel has confused Jeb with George P. -- 'cause you gotta know, that kid is just waiting his turn at bat.
I follow long with your logic until you get here.
“...there needs to be new ideas presented to the young for this new age.”
No there doesn’t. For the last 230 years, we have merely needed to explain the old ideas well. That continues to be the case.
If we don’t mention Reagan, who will?
Exactly the point. And that includes adapting them to current problems being faced which will give hope to the young.
If we don’t mention Reagan, who will?
Reagan is passing into history. And if we get new, fresh standard-bearers who articulate conservatism for the future, Reagan will continue to live on with his positive legacy.
However, if conservatives sit in nostalgia looking only the past and let the Rats rule in DC, those Rats will over time trash Reagan's name.
There are only a few pages in the Left’s playbook.
The “Reagan Revolution” ended 20 years ago.
Time to start a new one and quit whining and blaming. The title of this thread sounds like a DU piece: Bush’s fault!!
Can we please grow up and start looking forward?
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bump! I was just going to address that ‘new ideas’ - but you did a better at it!
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The fact Bush 1 did not march into Baghdad was because of the agreements that were made while building the fragile coalition that fought with us.
Taking Iraq was verboten with almost all of our coalition partners and would have precluded us from doing what we did to take back Kuwait.
To this day I think Bush 2 was allowing the press and the Democrats too much say in the fight in Iraq and thus allowing them to almost lose the objective of trying to help them build their country back up without terrorists.
He finally realized that if he did not take back control from the Dims Iraq would be lost and the Dim takeover in our country would have occurred sooner.
The "Mission Accomplished" thing was, and still is, taken out of context completely and is used to denigrate him when he was trying to thank those warriors on that carrier and their Task Force.
I believe both Bushes were rather bad Presidents and said so during both of their terms in office, but they did do a few things right. A stopped watch is correct twice per day unless it is a 24 hour watch.
I don't think he is satan either, but then I think we need Reagan a heck of a lot more than we need any Bushie. It's tie for the Bushies to go grow tomatoes or something..or if he likes Jeb can run for the US Senate in Florida. They seem to like him there. But for president? No way.
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