QOTD: Ronald Reagan – liberal warrior
October 27, 2009 by William K. Wolfrum
To hear many Republicans tell it, the ir party hasn’t nominated an actual conservative for president since Ronald Reagan 25 years ago. Apparently, no real-life leader can live up to the model of perfection that the conservatives demand.
(The truth is, Reagan couldn’t either. He signed three major tax increases, turned tail and ran when our Marines were ambushed in Lebanon, granted amnesty to illegal aliens, ran up huge deficits, secretly traded arms for hostages with terrorists in Iran and tried to eradicate all nuclear weapons, including our own. If somebody were to run with Reagan’s record today, the Republicans would purge him as a liberal.)
– Jay Bookman, Atlanta Journal Constitution
True dat.
GOP needs quality candidates? You betcha.
It’s become quite clear in the last coupla years that the Repubs have moved Reagan into their highly esteemed “Things We Fetishize in Theory but Could Hardly Give Two Rats’ Arses About in Reality” category (joining the Constitution and the military).