Ronald Reagan: RINO??? Cokie and Scarborough seem to think so. Ping to Today show list.
and JFK would never get the Democrat nomination today either.
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If we want those idiots opinions, we’ll give it to them!
Aha! So YOU’RE the one who watches MSNBC.
They may be right, but for the wrong reason. The GOP-e tried to prevent Reagan from running in 1980, and they have moved leftward since. If the GOP-e had their way, GHWB would have been the candidate.
Has it ever been discovered how a dead woman ended up in Joe Scarborough’s office when he was a Congresshole?
Maybe Karl Rove could entice Joe to throw his “Conservative” hat into the 2016 nomination ring?
Its been amazing to watch Reagan go in a few short decades from the right wing cowboy who was going to get us all blown up to the reasonable moderate the democrats could do business with, in the MSM's estimation.
The truth is whatever they want it to be, I guess.
Ronald Reagan was to the right of the current tea party. He would have been a big fan of the TP, as Michael Reagan has discussed on many occasions. Reagan was a movement leader. His views are darn close to 100% in line with TP view, but he took the stands to completely do away with a number of departments. While those ideas are common among tea partiers, it is not the primary positions offered.
I saw Cokie make a different point on that show.
She said that conservative Reagan was able to get elected twice because whites made up a super majority of voters in those days, unlike these days.
And those whites under 30 then were much less lib than now.
Of course he couldn’t. He didn’t in 1980. The GOPe hated him and fought him every step of the way.
He paid no attention.
That’s what it will take this next time.
It takes the prez 30 seconds to recite his job description in front of the world and paying attention to that is all it takes and that’s a lot.
The bigger the party, the bigger the swindle.
Reagan took the oath then got to work.
First order of biz get thos hostages OUT - Day one (Affleck left that out - so did Carter- but Argo is still in theaters and still winning much to everyones’ amazement.
THe fluffies at the bureaus and the executive branch fought Mendez as well.
Difference? They ignored it.
What if Dr. Carson gave a care about what Bill Bennett or any of those on the right said? Well, he’d shut up and look like all the rest of the weenies on the reight. THey are the worst obstructors.
Reagan ingnored them. Paid attention to his job.
Who wouldn’t want to take political advice advice from a 120 year old professional leftist battle-axe and a RINO male whore?
The republican establishment today would not allow a “Reagan” to get the nomination. Has nothing to do with voters.
These two morons out to get down on their knees and thank god there is a GOP which can play along with the charade that people like Roberts can pretend to be part of the “elite.”
No, the current GOP would try and edge Ron out and get a moderate/liberal Repub in there. So, in a sense, they’re right.
What nonsense. The only reason why Reagan might not win in the GOP today is because the establishment would beat him back as they did Newt Gingrich. They successfully beat back Reagan in ‘76 and they thought he was destroyed. He rallied the people in New Hampshire with his “I am paying for this microphone” comment and took the momentum from Bush, the establishment’s man. From then on it was over.
If Gingrich had been able to take out Romney in either Iowa or Florida, Romney would have been done as Bush was. But the establishment saw the power of Gingrich’s ability to rally the people and sought to destroy them. Because they did not want another clear-voiced conservative getting the nomination. They want losses (Dole, McCain, Romney) or shallow victories (Bush, Bush). They do not want conservatives winning in overwheliming landslides (Reagan) and continuously work to undermine them.
I’m surprised to find anyone here watching that show.
The one mistake Reagan made was bringing on George Bush as his running mate. It was only a few months later that the son of business partner and close family friend of the ex-CIA commander took a shot at Reagan. I think that being shot and a big effect on the President.
Reagan could talk over the heads of his detractors in the MSM better than any politician before or since. He could still win the Presidency today - though by much narrower margins than his 1984 blowout of Mondale. A lot of black and Hispanics and college-age white kids even then liked his plain-spoken, humorous delivery enough to support him - certainly at a higher percentage than the likes of McCain or Romney could ever attract.