I have to laugh when I hear a Tea Party Activist aka Rino/Establishment groupie tout Ronald Reagan in a comment. They obviously don't remember him too well, or were possibly to young or not born yet to remember him.
They have this false impression that he was a far to the right conservative. He wasn't --he was a MODERATE Republican, and only concerned himself with government matters--taxes, fiscal issues, military etc. He never went into social issues such as abortion. He didn't defile or degrade large voting blocks, like Hispanics. He appealed to everyone and that is why he won in historic landslides.
Ronald Reagan had to work with a hostile congress during his 8 year tenure. That meant doing a lot of compromising with Democrats to get things done.
If Ronald Reagan were alive today and running for POTUS. This same group would be referring to him as a RINO, and Rush Limbaugh would be calling him and Establishment candidate.
Today we have these Tea Party activists that have basically handed the election to Hillary Clinton--through their support of Donald "Trump. He has managed to chase off 17% of the population before the first vote was cast in the primary. While they have been so busy attacking their own party, they never looked to see what was happening to their own party. It's shrinking, and is now the MINORITY party in this country.
Ronald Reagan would have hated the Tea Party--aka esblishment/Rino groupies as much as they would have hated him.
Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.
They have this false impression that he was a far to the right conservative. He wasn't --he was a MODERATE Republican, and only concerned himself with government matters--taxes, fiscal issues, military etc. He never went into social issues such as abortion. He didn't defile or degrade large voting blocks, like Hispanics. He appealed to everyone and that is why he won in historic landslides.
Ronald Reagan had to work with a hostile congress during his 8 year tenure. That meant doing a lot of compromising with Democrats to get things done.
If Ronald Reagan were alive today and running for POTUS. This same group would be referring to him as a RINO, and Rush Limbaugh would be calling him and Establishment candidate.
Today we have these Tea Party activists that have basically handed the election to Hillary Clinton--through their support of Donald "Trump. He has managed to chase off 17% of the population before the first vote was cast in the primary. While they have been so busy attacking their own party, they never looked to see what was happening to their own party. It's shrinking, and is now the MINORITY party in this country.
Ronald Reagan would have hated the Tea Party--aka esblishment/Rino groupies as much as they would have hated him.
Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.
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