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Nancy Reagan endorses Romney's bid for president
Boston Globe ^ | May 31, 2012 | AP

Posted on 05/31/2012 9:56:41 PM PDT by Innovative

The widow of President Ronald Reagan says she is firmly behind Romney. And she says that her "Ronnie" would have liked Romney's business background and what she calls his "strong principles."

In a statement issued after the Romneys' visit, Mrs. Reagan said she believes that Romney has the experience and leadership skills that, in her words, "our country so desperately needs."

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012endorsements; elections; nancy; nancyreagan; obama; reagan; romney; ronaldreagan
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To: ansel12; dead

“Ron would be considered a RINO by Freepers.”

Jew hater Ron Paul maybe, but not Ronaldus Magnus. This would be like saying Wayne Gretzky was just another hockey player. Heresy in my book.

The primary is over. Yes, feelings were hurt (especially mine when Newt dropped out), blah, blah, blah. None of that is important right now. If we don’t get that Kenyan commie pig out of office, America will be destroyed. It’s that simple.

We’re on the edge of complete economic, political, and social disaster. The only way to prevent it is to send Obama to the C-SPAN lecture circuit four years early. If that means voting for Romney, it means voting for Romney. Is it a thought I cherish ? No, but I’d rather do that than watch the US become a failed, European-style social(ist) democracy.

Keep this in mind: It will be worlds easier to push Romney in the RIGHT (pun intended) direction than it will be to push Chairman Obama in the RIGHT direction. The GOP-E needs us a hell of lot more than the Dims do.


301 posted on 06/01/2012 6:46:49 PM PDT by Absolutely Nobama (The Doomsday Clock is at 11:58:59......)
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To: antceecee

“Also a huge chance that she is senile.”

Unacceptable and way out of bounds. You do realize that this isn’t the Daily Kos or the Daily Paultard, right ?


302 posted on 06/01/2012 6:51:53 PM PDT by Absolutely Nobama (The Doomsday Clock is at 11:58:59......)
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To: ansel12; dead; Innovative

“Nancy Reagan was never a Conservative....”

Mmmmmhmmmmm.....Right. And I guess 2+2=5, huh ?


303 posted on 06/01/2012 7:00:10 PM PDT by Absolutely Nobama (The Doomsday Clock is at 11:58:59......)
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To: Absolutely Nobama

Nancy Reagan has never been a conservative, nor particularly political except for abortion.

What do you know, that we need to know, to correct that perception?


304 posted on 06/01/2012 7:07:24 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP now goes for it's Presidential candidates.)
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To: newzjunkey

According to the bots, all Zero has to do is switch parties and it’s all good.


305 posted on 06/01/2012 7:18:42 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: rogue yam

I intend to assist neither of those abominations in that endeavor. Too bad you are.


306 posted on 06/01/2012 7:20:50 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: Loud Mime

More classy postings from a mindless Willardbot.


307 posted on 06/01/2012 7:24:01 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: rogue yam

Crazy is a Conservative website allowing Willardbots free reign in pimping a Socialist.


308 posted on 06/01/2012 7:25:55 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: Absolutely Nobama; dead

You should make sure to get your order of poster correct, you made it look like that anti-Reagan/antiFR post came from me, instead of from dead.


309 posted on 06/01/2012 7:26:27 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP now goes for it's Presidential candidates.)
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To: Dan Nunn

Fortunately, I don’t seek nor need the approval of so-called Conservatives who sell their souls to Socialist frauds like Willard.


310 posted on 06/01/2012 7:28:38 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
I intend to assist neither of those abominations in that endeavor.

You say that but campaigning against the GOP nominee on a conservative board assists the 'Rat nominee.

It just does, and you know it.

311 posted on 06/01/2012 7:32:25 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: Earthdweller

Kinda like this book cover.

312 posted on 06/01/2012 7:37:45 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: napscoordinator; rogue yam; Innovative
You are lowering yourself to vote for a Liberal. I am voting for a true conservative. So now who is the wacky left? You!!! Vote Virgil Goode 2012.

You're making the wacky left look sane. In the U.S. political system, there is the Democrat candidate, the Republican candidate, and a whole bunch of other candidates such as the Temperance Party, the Communist Party, etc. The only one of these who is going to win is either of the first two. The extent that "conservatives" withhold their vote from the flawed Republican candidate is the extent to which they enable the Democrat candidate to require fewer votes to win. Or as I put it earlier here:
"Don’t Get Suckered into Supporting the Republican Party" is exactly what folks like George Soros are saying. You can bet some of the biggest supporters (probably even financially if you could dig deep enough) of conservative third parties are liberal Democrats and other leftists who have taken over the Democrat Party and are busily at work to do the same to the Republican Party. They know that dividing the vote amongst a variety of "Hey, I'm more conservative than you cause I didn't vote for any Republican" nitwits is one their most effective ways to destroy their opposition and to solidify a political hegemony.

Over the past thirty years they have taken control of one of the two largest political parties in a country where winner takes all in elections and are busily working to fracture the only opposition they have by encouraging conservatives to leave the Republican Party in the hands of RINOS rather than working to take over the party apparatus as they, the Leftists, have taken over the Democrat Party. For those who say, "Well, I'm a proud member of the Constitution Party or the Declaration Party or the Conservative Party or the Southern Principled Conservative Party of Holy Ghost Fire on the Mountain Pre-Rapture Remnant of the Real Thing Party and someday we'll be big enough to replace the Republican Party, just like the Temperance Party or the Bull Moose Party did":

Doofuses: we don't live in a parliamentary system where representation is divided proportionally between the losers!

It's winner take all, baby, and the sooner you realize that and stop wasting time fighting like cats and Baptists to multiply the number of me-so-conservative parties the sooner you'll have turned back the liberal encroachment on the existing, main opposition party to their main vehicle for political power, the Democrat Party, instead of complimenting yourself on just how wonderfully more conservative your loser party is going to be than the one you deliberately abandoned to leftist takeover.
"Hey, I don't like these liberal bumper stickers on this fully functioning vehicle or the places its driver is taking us, right? So, I've got this great plan to deal with that, 'kay? Instead of tossing the driver out on his butt and getting some more appropriate body detailing and then driving it wherever we want to go, we're going to get out at the next corner, wag our fingers really hard at the driver as he speeds off, and then from scratch build our own new most perfectly conservative vehicle and, someday, maybe, enter that into the race! And won't that glorious day be, oh, so grand?"
And you think Jesus (or anyone else) is going to say, "Well done, good and faithful servant for refusing to take back the existing opposition party and, instead, throwing your vote to something that couldn't possibly defeat a known enemy because you thought being considered a more nearly "true" conservative party than any other was more important than actually conserving and preserving the Republic against an ongoing enemy onslaught"?

Dream on.

313 posted on 06/01/2012 7:39:44 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: rogue yam

Why are you actively helping the left ? This is a Conservative website.


314 posted on 06/01/2012 7:42:49 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: antceecee
a huge chance that she is senile

But no evidence whatsoever. All indications are that NR thinks the way she's always thought. I see no inconsistency in her endorsement of Romney.

There's also a huge chance that for the Reagans, as for many other couples, love transcended politics.

315 posted on 06/01/2012 7:48:46 PM PDT by Lady Lucky (Non-compliant, not govt-issued, and not voting for Romney.)
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To: ansel12

“Mrs. Reagan’s value in the White House was much more than as a sidelines tea-pourer with a penchant for Galanos gowns and a distrust of outsiders. She loomed large — often in her famed red power dress — in all aspects of her husband’s life and career, wielding outsized political influence for a first lady and helping to shape Reagan’s now-lauded and history-making Cold War policy.

Much more than many knew during his presidency, Ronald Reagan relied mainly on the council of his wife, even on the big issues. Some say she was likely his only true friend in Washington — much to the chagrin of his power-player associates, many of whom regarded her as the tiny but ferocious pit bull guarding the Oval Office door.

‘I think she was the only person he really listened to, the only person he was really close to,’ historian Kathy Olmsted, a professor at the University of California at Davis, said about Reagan’s complex personal-political relationship.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/3/nancy-reagan-was-a-true-political-partner/


316 posted on 06/01/2012 8:11:53 PM PDT by Absolutely Nobama (The Doomsday Clock is at 11:58:59......)
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To: ansel12

“Mrs. Reagan’s value in the White House was much more than as a sidelines tea-pourer with a penchant for Galanos gowns and a distrust of outsiders. She loomed large — often in her famed red power dress — in all aspects of her husband’s life and career, wielding outsized political influence for a first lady and helping to shape Reagan’s now-lauded and history-making Cold War policy.

Much more than many knew during his presidency, Ronald Reagan relied mainly on the council of his wife, even on the big issues. Some say she was likely his only true friend in Washington — much to the chagrin of his power-player associates, many of whom regarded her as the tiny but ferocious pit bull guarding the Oval Office door.

‘I think she was the only person he really listened to, the only person he was really close to,’ historian Kathy Olmsted, a professor at the University of California at Davis, said about Reagan’s complex personal-political relationship.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/3/nancy-reagan-was-a-true-political-partner/


317 posted on 06/01/2012 8:13:05 PM PDT by Absolutely Nobama (The Doomsday Clock is at 11:58:59......)
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To: Absolutely Nobama

Senility is a natural progression of aging. Not an insult, just a statistical fact.


318 posted on 06/01/2012 8:42:28 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: ansel12
Your post reads like drunken haiku.

I never said a bad thing about Reagan, or his widow, on this thread or any other.

319 posted on 06/01/2012 8:43:28 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead

You merely said that he would be unacceptable to his core supporters today because he would be viewed as a rino republican like a Rockefeller or a Romney.

Well he clearly isn’t seen that way by we conservatives.


320 posted on 06/01/2012 8:50:18 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP now goes for it's Presidential candidates.)
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