"Of all the unlikely developments in American politics over the last two decades, the most astonishing is this: liberals suddenly love Ronald Reagan. They have taken to celebrating certain virtues they claim Reagan possessed—virtues they believe are absent from the conservative body politic today—while looking back with nostalgia at the supposed civility of the political struggles of the 1980s.
“There’s something there I miss today,” mused the former Democratic staffer and longtime talk-show host Chris Matthews in January about the relationship between Reagan and House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, the most powerful Democrat in Washington during Reagan’s first term. Matthews dreamily evoked a time when Reagan and O’Neill had drinks together, swapped Irish stories, slapped backs, and, they say, cut deals with a minimum of personal rancor—as opposed to the ugly relations between the two parties today.Even more notable is the fact that Reagan has become a model for presidential governance for . . . Barack Obama..."
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CLL's (closet limousine liberals)are hysterically funny to watch.
They live like republicans and are capitalists through and through.
They latch on to 80% or better of every idea we have and then lie, cheat and steal to cover that fact up.
But trying to hijack Reagan?
He'd get a real kick out of that but to a true conservative, messin with Reagan is like messin with Texas.
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