Posted on 01/25/2016 5:53:55 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Reagan was a liberal Democrat who decried wrongheaded Republicans before he became the conservative hero of wrongheaded Republicans.
Ted Cruz is positioning himself as the "true" conservative candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. The senator from Texas wants his fellow partisans to believe that he is the surest heir of the secular saint of modern conservatism: Ronald Reagan. Cruz says he has read stacks of Reagan biographies to bone up on policy and presidential demeanor. He tells crowds that Reagan understood that "simply giving voice to values of American people has power, and speaking the truth with a smile has enormous potency. It's what Reagan did every day and what I'm trying to do in this campaign."
Unfortunately for Cruz, despite all his alleged reading and actual pontificating, he does not appear to know very much about his favored president. The senator--who is rarely accused of "speaking the truth with a smile"--is battling billionaire Donald Trump for the votes of conservatives in the first-caucus state of Iowa and the first-primary state of New Hampshire. And in this fight he frequently invokes the 40th president.
Ripping Trump for past expressions of sympathy with the Democratic party and at least some of its preferred programs, Cruz declared the other day in New Hampshire that "Ronald Reagan did not spend the first 60 years of his life supporting Democratic politicians, advocating for big government."
Seriously?
Does Ted Cruz not remember that Ronald Reagan was a Democrat before he was a Republican? Raised in a Democratic family, Reagan cast his first vote for Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932--when Herbert Hoover was decrying Roosevelt as a radical--and remained an active and outspoken Democrat through the first decades of his Hollywood prominence.
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“What Ted Cruz Doesn’t Know About Ronald Reagan”...LOL
Yep:)
What’s wrong with Reagan? He was a democrat and did his work and then changed to Republican and became a great President...
I liked him, voted for him...
...and how much do you know about Reagan loppylu???? Please enlighten us with all your vast knowledge...
Not really. The democrat party of the 50-60s is no where close to the democrat party of the 90-00s.
More embellishments by Cruz, what a surprise!
Reagan sounds like a real bleeding heart here..........NOT!
Reagan was a member of Democrats For Eisenhower in 1952; he was 41 at the time. He campaigned for Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956. Then he campaigned for Nixon in 1960.
He was just a bit tardy with the paperwork.
That's not Ronald Reagan.
That’s right, I liked Reagan too.
And who is your hero? Courtney Massengale?
Who said anything about Trump...we are talking about Cruz knowing Reagan....
We all know Reagan was a dem first ...but using a left wing source is what I was laughing at.
But cause they’re not all Communists and Marxists like Obama.
LOL
And you're basing your opinion on an article written in The Nation.
Reagan did not support democrat ideas for 60 years . Whereas, Trump’ “conservatism” is all too recent. That’s Cruz’s point. Sometimes you Trumpsters are SO disingenuous.
Sometimes?
Everyone knows Reagan was a Democrat but the definition of liberal in the 40s is not the same as it is now.
No one is saying that people can't change, but those that dispense with the “truth” that Reagan as a Democrat during the war years was anything like any candidate changing his views now is fantasy.
And your proposal that he was a proponent of homosexuality is folly. He was a champion of individual freedom and liberty and felt the government had no place in determining the freewill of man. Nothing to do with the act itself.
LOL
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