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Washington Post Column: Tear down this icon: Why the GOP has to get over Ronald Reagan
Washington Post ^ | 04/26/2013 | Jennifer Rubin

Posted on 04/26/2013 7:48:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 04/26/2013 7:48:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Um, NO.


2 posted on 04/26/2013 7:51:14 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Some one needs to notify the bitch Reagan wasn’t a myth, he actually accomplished great things. If she wants to see a myth see need only remove her lips from Obama’s ass and look up.


3 posted on 04/26/2013 7:51:25 AM PDT by SCHROLL
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To: SeekAndFind

And we all know how objective this Leftist journalist is, so her advice to the GOP is about as worthless as a bucket of warm spit.

Obama and FDR are Socialists who aren’t worthy to shine Pres. Reagan’s boots.


4 posted on 04/26/2013 7:52:55 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: SeekAndFind

Thanks Jenn....we really need another party that stands for nothing.

Are you really suggesting that the GOP try to market a new brand of liberalism?

Conviction to Conservative Values is the ONLY way to establish a contrast with those promoting the path to destruction.


5 posted on 04/26/2013 7:53:46 AM PDT by G Larry (Darkness Hates the Light)
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To: SeekAndFind

Did Karl Rove ghost-write this?


6 posted on 04/26/2013 7:53:57 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: SeekAndFind

Rubin does a regular podcast with Mickey Kaus for the Richocet site. I find myself agreeing more with Kaus than Rubin. Rubin is a welfare state loving Neo-Con.


7 posted on 04/26/2013 7:54:09 AM PDT by C19fan
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She’s no more ‘conservative’ than I am a friggin tutu’d ballerina [calling Mr. Rahm Emanuel, calling Rahm Emanuel...]

She looks like a man, probably not a good enough liberal writer (doesn’t swallow it hook, line and sinker), so WaPo gave her the token conservative moniker.

Screw her....[actually, somebody else can try that]


8 posted on 04/26/2013 7:55:06 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SeekAndFind

Let me guess, we need to hold up Bill Clinton as the Republican ideal. < /gag>


9 posted on 04/26/2013 7:55:11 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
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“The public face of the GOP can no longer be aging, ill-tempered Reaganites such as John McCain...”

LOL. Yeah, McCain was a Reagan conservative.


10 posted on 04/26/2013 7:56:35 AM PDT by mrs9x
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To: SeekAndFind

Hate to tell Ms. Rubin, but President Reagan was no myth. He said what he meant and meant what he said. Unlike the lying b-tid occupying the White House now.


11 posted on 04/26/2013 7:56:37 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: SeekAndFind

Reagan was the last real conservative elected, and unlike Bush who squeaked by with only one electoral vote in 2000 and just barely in 2004, Reagan won 44 states in 1980 and 49 states in 1984.

Both the democrat and republican establishments want the people to forget the MASSIVE support that real conservative ideas gets. They want the game to be played on a very narrow field (red states, blue states, swing states) so they can control the results.

Reagan’s enormous victories scared them to hell then, and does still, which is why they have moved heaven and earth to ensure the nomination of worthless, moderate, go-along, get-along, establishment appoved, men (Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain, Romney).


12 posted on 04/26/2013 7:57:12 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: SeekAndFind

Takes a lot of moxie coming from a bunch of people still having daily orgasms over FDR nearly seven decades after his passing.


13 posted on 04/26/2013 7:59:02 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Why am I not surprised by this? Rubin was totally and embarrassingly head-over-heels over Mitt Romney. Praised him to the skies, and dumped on anyone opposing him. Loathed Palin. Seemed entirely dismissive (if not actually antagonistic) towards the grassroots/tea-party.

Her GOP-E ilk always hated Reagan.


14 posted on 04/26/2013 8:01:28 AM PDT by greene66
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To: SeekAndFind

Reagan will be around a lot longer than the Post.


15 posted on 04/26/2013 8:01:33 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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..we walked through his ranch house, saw where he slept and we stood weeping at his grave site at the library. He was a mortal—a mortal who did great things for America and the world...


16 posted on 04/26/2013 8:04:02 AM PDT by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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The Rats and RINOs still fear Reagan for his stalwart anti-socialist polices.


17 posted on 04/26/2013 8:04:06 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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Sounds to me like she's parroting the GOPe for they were sending out that stuff (the era of Reagan is over!) before the 2008 election as I heard it coming out of DC RNC while running the local GOP election office.

The GOPe have been working hard behind the scenes to "kill off the Reagan myth" since "W" was in the White House and now see it mostly coming from Rove - but I have to say that there was no love lost between Bush 41 and Reagan, for they fought a vicious battle over the 1980 nomination.

People now look at Geo. H W Bush as a genial old man in a wheel chair having to be helped to stand but I do remember how vigorously he fought against Ronnie for a position, like the establishment always does, simply assumed that he was the "next in line" for the 1980 nomination.

Actually, the establishment Republicans fought against Reagan in 1976, when the GOPe shut Reagan out of the nomination, handing it instead to a weak Gerald Ford, who, of course, lost to Jimmy Carter!

So to blame this gal for any original thoughts of her own, is to give her far too much credit for brain power.

18 posted on 04/26/2013 8:04:28 AM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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OOOOOOOOOO...Instead -

Let's tear down the Washington comPOST!!!

It really is a stikin’ heap of spew, bilge, bile, and feces.

19 posted on 04/26/2013 8:06:29 AM PDT by Huebolt (A country that has tipped will fall. RIP USA)
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20 posted on 04/26/2013 8:07:03 AM PDT by Slyfox (The Key to Marxism is Medicine ~ Vladimir Lenin is smiling from hell)
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