Five years later, the Tea Party prepares for their Reagan moment

Washington Examiner ^ | 02/28/14 | Charlie Spiering

[FAA]

“you are taking 8 years of presidency, and trying to create the lie that it was Reagan’s platform as candidate...”

I never said that at all once anywhere in post I’ve written here. Where in Heck do you get that from?????

Once again, I am talking about the results of his two terms. Not what he ran on. Not what he said. Not the person we believed him to be. All that is fine. I am talking strictly about what happened during his time in office.

We want to look back on Reagan’s years as if they were some glorious perfect conservative utopia.....and they weren’t. There was a lot of bad stuff that happened in his time in office when it comes to modern conservative ideals. I have no qualms about looking back with stark, unvarnished honesty about that. I don’t want those things again.

[ansel12]

Actually you did—”Any candidate, today, who tried to win the GOP primary on the platform of above would be shouted down and out as an appeaser, a squish, “eastablishment,” and, moderate.”

So you just wanted to rant against Reagan’s presidency and never meant to discuss candidates or the tea party.

It is still idiotic, why not just start a thread on Reagan, rather than hijack one by calling his presidency a failure?

[FAA]

My dear God, man, this is so ridiculous.

I was talking a pol running on that platform TODAY. Not Reagan running on that platform 30 years ago.

I didn’t call his Presidency a failure. I said it was not what a lot of us hoped it could have been.

And, seriously, this is too stupid to argue about. You don’t understand what I’m saying and I can’t explain it to. Stop it. Just stop.

[ansel12]

Yep-growth of government, amnesty for illegals, Iran-Contra, Anthony Kennedy. It’s almost like he was a “compassionate conservative” which is a term I think just about everyone right-of-center hates these days. A damn sight better than any alternative at the time but far from the ideal conservative Presidential material we are searching for today. Any candidate, today, who tried to win the GOP primary on the platform of above would be shouted down and out as an appeaser, a squish, “eastablishment, and, moderate.
"I was talking a pol running on that platform TODAY. Not Reagan running on that platform 30 years ago."

Nobody is running on that platform, Reagan didn't run on that platform, you keep attacking Reagan's presidency.

You did call him a failure.

Best Presidency of my life? You. Bet. What I want to see from the next “conservative” elected to office? If any GOP/conservative POTUS of the future signed another amnesty or failed to significantly reduce the size and scope of government we would be here talking about them as a failure, no?"

Reagan's presidency was not a failure, and why do you want to keep ranting against him and some fake "platform"?

Why try to turn this into an anti-Reagan thread?