Please, Romney is nothing like Reagan!

Craig Shirley ^ | 03/08/2012 | Craig Shirley

[Brices Crossroads]

This should fall squarely in the "Captain Obvious" category. Still, Shirley reminds us that this is not 1980 and Romney is most definitely not Ronald Reagan. The Article made me more nostalgic than ever for the Gipper, a man who had the courage to take on the Establishment and defeat it and then had the stamina and fortitude to re-orient our domestic and Foreign policy like no President in American history. I hate to see Romney even mentioned in the same paragraph with him.

THIS was a great man.

[albie]

“Nothing Like”?! How about exactly opposite?! Or world’s apart?! Or good vs evil?!

[C. Edmund Wright]

It’s interesting, isn’t it? Two candidates, and their supporters, keep trying to compare their guy TO Reagan. A third simply says he worked WITH Reagan.

Now, some holes can be punched into all three stories, but it is telling the difference. And while we’re at it - Rush’s comparisons with Santorum to Reagan on social policies? Really? Now I’m not as old as Rush, but I remember Reagan Carter pretty well. I don’t remember much of anything about the social issues being an issue, even though we knew where Reagan stood.

[Williams]

Lost me by lumping Reagan with Obama at the end.

No question Reagan and Romney are very different. Likewise Carter and Obama.

I lived through Carter and there was a sense he was an embarrassment. I think people fear and dislike Obama much more.

Reagan started out with the conservative base and had to convince moderates he wasn’t a threatening right winger.

Romney starts with moderate respect and has to energize the conservatives.

I think the American people cannot wait to vote Obama out of office.

[Maverick68]

I am excited about none of the candidates but will gladly vote for “other” when facing Obama.
I know many Freepers have passionate feelings about their guy, but ANYONE who thinks that our worst choice will be as bad for the country as Obama is simply a fool, ESPECIALLY in light of the recent comments made by Leon Panetta.
The Left wants to destroy our country and if Obama wins, he will stack the court with radicals the likes of which our nation has never seen.
After the primaries, we MUST come together and support the guy not named Obama.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Reagan’s positions on the issues throughout his political life were clear and unambiguous.

Romney, not so much.

[Jonty30]

C’mon man!

He’s a populist through and through. How many other politicians know that Michigan trees are all the right height?

[al baby]

I met Reagan never met Romney but he is still no Reagan !!!!!!!

[MSF BU]

Given the homosexual push by the judiciary, I’m not sure Reagan would not support the marriage ammenment. He certainly had no qualms about an outright ban on them in the military: “We ask, DON’T join” worked quite well. Aside from that, this was an excellent article.

[ConservativeDude]

I think the American people cannot wait to vote Obama out of office.”

Oh, man, do I ever hope you are right!!!!! It looks likely that we will have to do so with Romney....not that I like him, but we have to oust obama! (I fear, however, that Romney can’t do it...he is that weak).

[dfwgator]

Romney has no shot....zip...zilch...nada.

[Vigilanteman]

Well, they both have nice hair.

[riverdawg]

“Rush’s comparisons with Santorum to Reagan on social policies? Really? Now I’m not as old as Rush, but I remember Reagan Carter pretty well. I don’t remember much of anything about the social issues being an issue, even though we knew where Reagan stood.”

Rush and I are about the same age. I share your recollection that social issues played no important role in the 1980 election. Reagan's campaign was primarily about two things: (1) challenging the Soviet Union by restoring US military strength; (2) restoring economic prosperity by lowering marginal tax rates and reducing the growth of the federal government.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Rush and I are about the same age. I share your recollection that social issues played no important role in the 1980 election. Reagan's campaign was primarily about two things: (1) challenging the Soviet Union by restoring US military strength; (2) restoring economic prosperity by lowering marginal tax rates and reducing the growth of the federal government.

Glad you shared that, and glad to know we remember the same campaign the same way. It is stunning to me, STUNNING, to see Rush make this false comparison. Correcting such falsehoods is what he has done for 23 years. This is tremendous slippage in my opinion, and with potentially dire consequences.

[old school]

Yeah! What the hell is the reference to the height of trees? I know he said it but what do it mean?

[Williams]

Romney’s not weak. Romney, I think, is an SOB. his conservative support is weak.

[Jonty30]

I think he’s trying to create nostalgia, where life was just perfect in Middle America in the 1950’s, where everybody lives in the suburbs with tree-lined streets.

[Williams]

Agreed, I heard Reagan speak as president. He was absolutely golden and magical. No one compares.

[al baby]

I think Rush may be using again

[SoConPubbie]

So, the man, Romney, who has done the following:

1. Supported Gay Adoption
2. Supported Gay Marriage
3. Wholeheartedly supported Abortion.
4. Proclaimed he was not a Reagan Conservative.
5. Supports Global Warming
6. Implemented a form of Socialized Medicine with RomneyCare with it’s Individual Mandate
7. Doesn’t like nore understand the concept of limited Government.
8. Is a continual and serial liar.

This total creep is like Reagan?

TO arrive at that conclusion the writers of this drivel would have to throw out everything he did as Governor and 95% of everything else.