View Full Version : Is The Reagan Revolution Dead?
Taco John
02-01-2008, 12:23 PM
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Bronco Bob
02-01-2008, 12:26 PM
One can only hope.
Now that will be effective.
What "Reagan Revolution"?
Spider
02-01-2008, 01:14 PM
What "Reagan Revolution"?
Simple , it is like Whack a Mole , only it was called Whack a Middle classer , everytime a middle class person start to get on his feet ,whack em ......
Hotrod
02-01-2008, 01:24 PM
Im not so sure its dead prolly just gotten old and confused.
Bronco Bob
02-01-2008, 02:30 PM
Im not so sure its dead prolly just gotten old and confused.
Must be why the GOP is all set to make McCain the nominee.
Rohirrim
02-01-2008, 02:44 PM
Boy, Raygun sure changed his policies from that speech to what he believed in when he was president.
Hotrod
02-01-2008, 02:47 PM
Must be why the GOP is all set to make McCain the nominee.
Ya I'm starting to think your onto something. Seems like the old crusty Repub party is stuck on old crusty people and ideas.
alkemical
02-01-2008, 04:07 PM
Ya I'm starting to think your onto something. Seems like the old crusty Repub party is stuck on old crusty people and ideas.
Interesting.....
Smiling Assassin27
02-01-2008, 04:10 PM
Politics is cyclical. The Republican party has always had two wings, the Roosevelt/Nixon/Ford/Rockefeller wing which loves big government, and the Harding/Coolidge/Hoover/Goldwater/Reagan wing that distrusts big government.
The Reagan wing took control of the party in 1980, it had a good run, but the Reagan coalition has been getting weaker and weaker for a while now (look at the 1996 election for proof, Bob Dole won out over Phil Gramm, clearly a sign that Reagan conservatism was in decline) now the Roosevelt wing is in the ascendancy.
John McCain is in the Roosevelt wing. His winning the nomination (which he almost certainly will) means a return to the Republican party of the Nixon/Ford era, which means lots of big government activism and higher taxes.
These things are cyclical, the Reaganites had their turn, now the Nixonians get their turn. The Reaganites WILL come back eventually, but it might take another 25-30 years.
alkemical
02-01-2008, 04:11 PM
One can only hope it's that short.
Spider
02-01-2008, 04:18 PM
to err is human , to really **** things up takes a republican
L.A. BRONCOS FAN
02-01-2008, 07:01 PM
Is The Reagan Revolution Dead?
Nope - just under new management...
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