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FLASHBACK: Ronald Reagan Skipped Last Debate Before IA Caucus – Went on to Win in Landslide
Gateway Pundit ^ | FLASHBACK: Ronald Reagan Skipped Last Debate Before IA Caucus – Went on to Win in Landslide | Jm Hoft

Posted on 01/27/2016 6:46:26 AM PST by TaxPayer2000

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To: TaxPayer2000

Trump is no Reagan.


61 posted on 01/27/2016 7:07:50 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012
If Fox had issued a similar PR about Cruz, you Cruzers would go apes**t and praise Cruz if he had as much balls to skip out as Trump did.

We wouldn't have been faced with the problem because Cruz is an adult and a professional and wouldn't throw a hissy-fit about the debate moderators. He would have shown up and dealt with it.

It doesn't take balls to run away.

62 posted on 01/27/2016 7:08:13 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DesertRhino

Well, if someone tried to slap me down saying, I was only a girl, I would find that offensive.


63 posted on 01/27/2016 7:08:27 AM PST by Boardwalk
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To: TaxPayer2000

Had just recently read about this.

Glad you found and posted this.

Reagan set the table for Trump :)


64 posted on 01/27/2016 7:08:29 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: TaxPayer2000
Yeah, but . . . but, yeah, but so what. Trump did it so it's BAD, didn't you get the memo?

65 posted on 01/27/2016 7:08:59 AM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: TaxPayer2000

Yeah.. But Reagan was a Conservative.


66 posted on 01/27/2016 7:09:07 AM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“If a candidate wins both the disparate states of Iowa and New Hampshire, it seems they will win everything.

True or false?”


False. The first six months of this campaign have proven clearly this year is quite different than those in the past. All the old theories should be thrown out the window.


67 posted on 01/27/2016 7:09:15 AM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: tlozo

:: It was a stupid move on Reagan’s part to skip the Iowa debate ::

Media is what media does...

Wow! Where have you been and why hasn’t FR been privy to your political insight”.

BTW...go away.


68 posted on 01/27/2016 7:09:23 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: al_c

69 posted on 01/27/2016 7:09:48 AM PST by Helicondelta
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To: Sasparilla
Just that skipping an Iowa debate is not unprecedented.

Losing in Iowa after skipping an Iowa debate is also not unprecedented.

70 posted on 01/27/2016 7:10:17 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: al_c
Trump is no Reagan.

Exactly.. not even close.

71 posted on 01/27/2016 7:10:25 AM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: roamer_1

Before Reagan was a conservative, he was a Democrat. Your point is....?


72 posted on 01/27/2016 7:11:24 AM PST by Boardwalk
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To: Proud2BeRight

Did Reagan also have a hissy fit and do juvenile name-calling about a moderator?


Did the “moderator” slobber all over a well known conservative like Michael Moore two days before that debate?


73 posted on 01/27/2016 7:11:54 AM PST by lodi90 (TRUMP Force 1 lifting off)
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To: ScottinVA

Trump may turn out to be better than Reagan especially if he does not have a dork like Bush as his VP.


74 posted on 01/27/2016 7:11:58 AM PST by Boardwalk
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To: CAluvdubya
Neither did Trump.

Yeah he did.

Be truthful.....Trump balked at Ailes mocking him on Twitter. If Ailes did that to Cruz, you all would be howling about it.

No, we wouldn't. Because Cruz is adult enough and professional enough not to get upset when someone takes a shot at him. Trump's skin is a millimeter thick, and if he takes the nomination then it's clear how to detail his campaign. Just say something mean about him and he'll fly off the handle. Can you see a President Trump taking the kind of crap that Obama and George Bush took on a daily basis? Or Reagan?

The only reason you think it's ok for the owner of the sponsoring debate network to go after one of the debate candidates, is that they didn't do it to Cruz.

And again, the only reason Ailes went after Trump was because Trump balked at Kelly being a moderator.

75 posted on 01/27/2016 7:12:14 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

Why would Trump be entitled to equal respect? He does not earn respect with his foolish behavior.


76 posted on 01/27/2016 7:12:22 AM PST by Kaisersrsic
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To: DoodleDawg

Great. Then you should have no complaints. Your darling CRuz can waltz in to the debate, dazzle them with his *brilliance* and win the hearts and minds of millions....with the stage all to himself. Right?

Rather than whining, again, and rushing/desiring to be with Trump....CRuz should seize this opportunity to *shine*.


77 posted on 01/27/2016 7:12:51 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Boardwalk
Before Reagan was a conservative, he was a Democrat. Your point is....?

You are conflating Conservatism with the term 'Republican'.

78 posted on 01/27/2016 7:13:00 AM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Cruz just has a different mentality, being from Canada.


79 posted on 01/27/2016 7:13:47 AM PST by Boardwalk
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To: Boardwalk

...a dork like Bush for his VP...

/snicker ;-)


80 posted on 01/27/2016 7:13:47 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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