Posted on 03/27/2015 5:32:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ronald Reagan. I know establishment types despise him.
Not automatically, but it means great lengths to prove it. Not every GOP president, but definitely the Bush administration now that it's evident that it was not conservative at all. And now that it's become clear most of the people in the administration who we thought were conservatives were left wingers masquerading as conservatives.
A famous conservative one said, "Trust but verify." You disagree?
Who do you suggest will please your idea of “conservative”?
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Ronald Reagan. I know establishment types despise him.
He may be. I am just say, “Trust but verify.” He has two black marks against him, as far as being a conservative. He served in the Bush administration and he serves in the Senate.
Ronald Reagan raised the Social Security contribution from 9% to 14%. He also granted AMNESTY to 5 million illegal aliens.
So don't tell me that Cruz is not acceptable because he once worked for GWB.
Ronald Reagan was a great president and a solid conservative, but if he were running today, people like you would be calling him a RINO.
Until the Conservative movement starts using Liberal tactics against them, we'll continue to get hammered, and lose.
It’s simple. Conservatives will unite behind a real conservative who also has a shot at winning or they’ll divide themselves again, nitpicking every conservative to death while the progressive rino again becomes our candidate.
Do you read English? That is not what I said. We should regard his having served in the administration with great suspicion. ANY candidate should be vetted to the utmost degree. Republicans can not be trusted. You are advocated that we elected presidents without knowing anything about them, Obama-style. Haven't you learned anything? Ronald Reagan was a great president and a solid conservative, but if he were running today, people like you would be calling him a RINO.
He made mistakes, but I don't agree with you that he was a RINO.
The GOP hasn't run a conservative in more than thirty years. Yet you claim we shouldn't vet candidates before we pick them. Sounds like Pelosi-ism. "We have to elect a candidate before we know if he's conservative." Sorry, ignorance is not conservatism.
He made a bad immigration deal with Democrats who reneged Reagan said it was one of his biggest regrets. Repubs who fail to learn from that are the big RINOs
Ted Cruz was Working for Bush, he was not the one making policy.
You can vet them all you want, but it appears to me that rather than "vet" candidates, you are on an Anti-Cruz Campaign.
This is Cruz country, my FRiend. Get used to being vetted yourself when you make silly arguments against him.
Eventually someone is going to have to compromise on this issue. Reagan had to because it was the only way to get control of the situation. Unfortunately he believed the other side.
The fact of the matter is that the problem has been created because the US has failed to enforce the law for the last 30 years and in essence we have invited illegal aliens to come here and raise families and take our jobs and collect benefits without any fear whatsoever. We have made our speed limit laws of more concern than our immigration laws and the fact of the matter is that nobody actually obeys speed limits because the benefits of speeding outweigh the consequences of having the possibility of being caught.
I am opposed to Amnesty of any kind, however I recognize that there is simply no way in the world we are going to be able to avoid it in the future.
The most important thing we can do is to secure the border and to deport everyone who is caught committing any prosecutable crime.
Start there and then make it impossible for people who came here illegally from ever voting or collecting welfare or food stamps or any other benefit from the welfare state.
But anyone who thinks that any candidate is going to put an immediate end to this problem is a DREAMER.
You are way out there. I have never said anything positive about any other candidate. Look at my posts, I am not anti-Cruz. But one bitten, twice shy. This is the period to verify conservatism. I hope Cruz is conservative, and I don’t see a better candidate them him. But he shouldn’t be given a free pass, either.
Just don't expect perfection. Ronald Reagan raised social security taxes on the self employed from 7% to 14% and he granted AMNESTY to 5 million illegal aliens.
Cruz is a solid conservative. If you can't see that, then you are blind. He's an announced candidate. I've signed on to volunteer on his campaign. Have you volunteered your services for any announced candidate? Oh wait, Cruz is the only candidate in the race right now. Everyone else is waiting for the results of their "exploratory committees".
OMG... what a radical! What would happen to all the state teachers colleges if people who just had the desire to teach kids in math, science, or even English didn't have to spend 10s of thousands of dollars on totally worthless post grad education classes to earn that privilege?
An entire level of the leftist bureaucracy would collapse, and kids would actually be exposed to teachers who could teach and actually wanted to teach.
Giving them amnesty will make it impossible to cut off the benefits
Congress has the power to create conditions for legal status of any immigrant. The current law prohibits Visa holders from getting on public assistance and those people are here legally. What Congress could do is to simply provide conditional Visas in lieu of amnesty and condition the Visa on ensuring that no one in the immigrant's family is a burden on the taxpayers. Those who don't sign on to the conditional Visa will be subject to deportation and those who sign on and then become a burden will be subject to deportation.
The fact of the matter is that probably less than 20% of illegal aliens would sign on anyway.
There is simply no way, with 30 million illegal aliens in this country, that we are going to solve the problem without some kind of compromise.
If you think otherwise then you are a DREAMER.
Would he be better if he worked for the Albert Gore Administration?
Let the other side compromise, or lose- novel concept to GOP types- cut off the bennies, they can return home or starve.
Many legal immigrants are on the dole, they call them refugees.
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