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It's Not 1980 Anymore
Weekly Standard ^ | Nov. 8, 2011 | Bill Kristol

Posted on 11/07/2011 9:02:47 PM PST by guitarist

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To: McBuff

“.....and I sure as hell don’t give a damn what Kristol thinks.”

Good post, and that line highlighted all needed to be said. Thanks for that.


21 posted on 11/08/2011 3:50:41 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: xkaydet65

Ohio Issue 2 will lose because of union demagoguery as opposed to a true addiction to entitlements.


22 posted on 11/08/2011 4:03:21 AM PST by RockinRight (One year from now, we have an opportunity to take our nation back.)
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To: guitarist
In the end Reagan wasn’t able to do much on entitlements.
 
But SHE is not the problem!
 
‘She’ didn’t VOTE for a single on of these things she’s being given.
 
 
 
WE have allowed all of this to happen; because we are ‘compassionate’ and want the ‘children’ to do better.
WHEN will we WAKE UP and realize that whatever we SUBSIDIZE; we get MORE of??
 
 
 
 
 
It’s simple; let’s use CHOICE just as the ABORTIONists do.
 
ANYONE can make a MISTAKE, so the GOV’T (us taxpayers) will help you with that one; and then
tell you what your CHOICEs are: you can have ALL the kids you want from now on; but WE will NOT pay for them,
OR, you can CHOOSE to get the FREE (Subsidized by us taxpayers) tube tying.


23 posted on 11/08/2011 4:13:39 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: guitarist
Shout it from the rooftops!

It’s up to us to decide!

24 posted on 11/08/2011 4:14:27 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: guitarist

I will not vote for Romney.

His election will do nothing to advance our interests.


25 posted on 11/08/2011 4:16:07 AM PST by Jim Noble (To live peacefully with credit-based consumption and fiat money, men would have to be angels.)
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To: coldtexan
Truth be told he DID solve some of the problems, be he didn't solve ALL of our problems.

At the risk of showing my age...I was a senior in highschool, too young to vote by a few months. But, Reagan was President during my flight into the 'real world.'

Funny, I did not and still do not view him as our solving problems. I view him and inspiring me, our country, to solve our own problems. He didn't just give us hope that 'someone' would rescue us, he inspired us to rescue ourselves.

26 posted on 11/08/2011 4:21:37 AM PST by EBH (God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: guitarist

November 6, 2012 will be the Picket’s Charge of the GOP if Romney is the candidate.


27 posted on 11/08/2011 4:30:25 AM PST by Rebelbase (Yes we Cain!)
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To: EBH
You are sooo right. I was 18 at the time and Mr. Reagan was my first vote.

His speeches made me want to stand up and CHEER! He was INSRIRING and made me proud of my Country. When I read anything he had written, It caused me to think.

Ronald Reagan was a GEM and a truly GREAT man.

Your point is well made and I should have said as mush when I posted. Thank You

28 posted on 11/08/2011 5:07:23 AM PST by coldtexan (30 below keeps the RIF RAF out)
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To: coldtexan

We are ‘his generation.’ Right now we have the children of the 1960’s-70’s running things. The generation of the 80’s had two roads. One group was the children of the ‘me generation’ the other was the generation of Reagan.


29 posted on 11/08/2011 5:22:47 AM PST by EBH (God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: McBuff
Well stated! The "concern trolls" are everywhere, and are nothing more than the hidden corrosion which lurks beneath the otherwise beautiful conservative "paint job" of any of our fine conservative candidates running.

I like Cain. I like Perry. I like Santorum. I like Bachmann. Romney or Gingrich only if we must, and if we find we must, it is only becuase our other guys didn't have the staying power for the whole race. We will face that fact only IF we must!

That said: every one of them a damn site better than the Carter II that we have there now.

Onward to victory in 2012!

FReegards!


30 posted on 11/08/2011 5:35:46 AM PST by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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To: Jim Noble

Based on who his advisers and co-workers are now, it would be expected that his supreme court appointments might be as good as W’s (Roberts and Alito), and almost certainly would be nowhere near as bad as Obama’s. To someone who understand how the country works, that’s enough reason to crawl over broken glass to vote for any of the current Rep’s over O.


31 posted on 11/08/2011 6:45:09 AM PST by guitarist
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To: guitarist

Screw the RNC! I want a CONSERVATIVE not a REPUBLICAN!!!

I am sick and tired of being told by the Republican party that we conservatives had better support whatever liberal piece of trash RINO they throw at us or else. Well, or else what, dipshits??? We’ll get the RINO liberal or the DNC liberal?? What the Hell is the difference???

Romney?? Liberal, Obama like Romney??? Romney gave Taxachusettes Hillary Care, and gave power to the rise of Obamacare. All the same crap! Is that crap what the RNC thinks we are supposed to support?

This is not an 8th grade girl’s club whose only job is to “win”. This is our country the RNC keep playing around with. This isn’t party-over-country. The RNC had better step up and stop playing around.

I’ll ONLY give my vote to a candidate I can support. If neither candidate is anything but a liberal, I’ll write in a name.


32 posted on 11/08/2011 6:54:57 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: guitarist

If I wanted to take Bubba and FDR as role models, Bill, I’d be a Democrat.


33 posted on 11/08/2011 6:54:59 AM PST by RichInOC (Sarah Palin is at war with the left. Most Freepers are just playing the video game.)
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To: guitarist

And again, Kristol doesn’t get it. Ronald Reagan wasn’t perfect, either. No candidate is. Yes, 1980 ::was:: amazing. Morning in America.

If you’re trying to convince conservatives that Mittens should get our vote if he is the nominee, you’re you-know-whatting in the wind. It’s not happening.


34 posted on 11/08/2011 6:58:30 AM PST by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: guitarist
Based on who his advisers and co-workers are now

Therein lies the problem. Now. The person he's running as now is not the same Romney before he decided to run as a conservative candidate. What'll he change into next? He's not trustworthy.

35 posted on 11/08/2011 7:11:06 AM PST by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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