Posted on 11/26/2013 11:32:53 AM PST by Morgana
“Reagan was never pro-abortion”
Well keep repeating that over and over and that PRO-abortion bill he signed might turn into an ANTI-abortion bill. LOL.
Ronald Reagan knew that there was always one reliable way to annoy liberals: When advocating for one of his conservative policies, he’d invoke the name of John F. Kennedy.
For his 1980 campaign against Jimmy Carter, Reagan made a television commercial in which he praised JFK’s broad tax cuts 20 years earlier, saying, “when he cut taxes everyone gained from an expanding, fully employed economy … If I’m elected, we’ll do it again.”
A broad swath of Democrats crossed party lines and contributed to Reagan’s victory that year (and thus were born “Reagan Democrats”), and in his re-election effort four years later, Reagan cited JFK 51 times on the campaign trail. The JFK references so irritated Kennedy’s brother, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (by then, the “Liberal Lion” of the Senate), that the younger Kennedy peevishly declared, “Ronald Wilson Reagan has no right to quote John Fitzgerald Kennedy!”
But Reagan’s purpose wasn’t just to provoke liberal ire. On the big issues, such as tax policy and America’s place in the world, Reagan really did locate himself on a political spectrum right next to JFK.
“[Kennedy] was a religious man, and he saw the Soviet Union as this godless, really evil empire,” says Ira Stoll, author of “JFK: Conservative.” “He used the word ‘evil,’ just like Reagan did … That’s the case for Kennedy as a conservative right there.”
…Reagan once noted, with a laugh, that his references to JFK made Democrats want to “start tearing their hair out.”
Fifty years later, it still does.
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The link between Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy go beyond even the fundamental economic and world views the two men shared. Kennedy and Reagan were likely the two most politically popular presidents of the modern era. More so than Barack Obama, or even Bill Clinton, they were able to work effectively with both Democrats and Republicans during times of significant geo-political challenge, and they did so with a calm grace that enhanced America’s standing in the world.
It should also be noted both men despised the very socialist tendencies then creeping across the globe that Barack Obama himself has advocated his entire life, and certainly during his time as President of the United States.
America knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was our friend.
President Obama – you’re no Jack Kennedy…
JFK was actually pro-abortion, not only did he express that in conversation, but he sought abortions for his girlfriends.
JFK impregnated his wife 5 times during the last 8 years of his life, yet was never troubled by a living, illegitimate child from his countless adulteries at any time during his 46 years, he was so pathetic that he actually had federal agents bringing him women, and he was indulging in teens.
Yet, their pregnancies never came to fruition. We know why, a couple of those women have explained the Catholic married, millionaire playboy’s method of, to quote JFK himself, “”solving their problems by abortion””.
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