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To: o2bfree; xzins; P-Marlowe; Carley; onyx
Below is a REAL CPAC speech from 35 years ago when they were actually conservative:

Ronald Reagan: Let Them Go Their Way

You will notice no "big tent" talk, Governor Reagan made it very clear that conservatives would not compromise and anyone who had a problem with that was free to leave.

114 posted on 02/20/2010 3:08:30 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

Doubtful Reagan would have tolerated Paul or the Birchers.


128 posted on 02/20/2010 3:12:41 PM PST by Carley
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To: wagglebee

Thanks for posting that. It needs to be posted everytime someone suggests that we need to change our conservative constitutionalist principles to be “more inclusive.” Reagan would have none of that big tent baloney. That stuff came along with Bush. The GOP needs to go back to standing for principle if it wants to win elections.


180 posted on 02/20/2010 3:28:58 PM PST by Brices Crossroads (Politico and)
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