Favorite 2012 Republican Candidate

[Radbird]

Obama says today's GOP would reject Ronald Reagan

He cited a Republican presidential debate late last year when the entire field rejected the prospect of $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases as a means to lower the debt.

"Think about that. Ronald Reagan, who as I recall was not accused of being a tax-and-spend socialist, understood repeatedly that when the deficit started to get out of control that for him to make a deal he would have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases," Obama said. "He did it multiple times. He could not get through a Republican primary today."

[heyzeus]

Obama says today's GOP would reject Ronald Reagan

He cited a Republican presidential debate late last year when the entire field rejected the prospect of $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases as a means to lower the debt.

"Think about that. Ronald Reagan, who as I recall was not accused of being a tax-and-spend socialist, understood repeatedly that when the deficit started to get out of control that for him to make a deal he would have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases," Obama said. "He did it multiple times. He could not get through a Republican primary today."

“We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief.”
~~~ President Ronald Reagan, 26 October 1984, in a speech to Temple Hillel and Community Leaders in Valley Stream

He would be laughed out of the primary today if he made such a remark.

[slide_into_first]

Send me your newts, your mitts, your ricks, I will hold a lamp beside the open door- or something like that.

[Freed Roger]

Obama says today's GOP would reject Ronald Reagan

He cited a Republican presidential debate late last year when the entire field rejected the prospect of $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases as a means to lower the debt.

"Think about that. Ronald Reagan, who as I recall was not accused of being a tax-and-spend socialist, understood repeatedly that when the deficit started to get out of control that for him to make a deal he would have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases," Obama said. "He did it multiple times. He could not get through a Republican primary today."

“We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief.”
~~~ President Ronald Reagan, 26 October 1984, in a speech to Temple Hillel and Community Leaders in Valley Stream

He would be laughed out of the primary today if he made such a remark.

That is pretty damn funny. Yeah, the Reaganites were not god-fearing GOP. They were Goldwater republicans if I recall correctly. Dick Nixon would be a flaming liberal in today's GOP.

I also get a chuckle out of when Republicans flout Abraham Lincoln - the socialist guy who put thru the first federal income tax.

[Leroy]

Yeah. Romney wants to turn us all into Mormons.

[Popeye_Card]

Obama says today's GOP would reject Ronald Reagan

He cited a Republican presidential debate late last year when the entire field rejected the prospect of $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases as a means to lower the debt.

"Think about that. Ronald Reagan, who as I recall was not accused of being a tax-and-spend socialist, understood repeatedly that when the deficit started to get out of control that for him to make a deal he would have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases," Obama said. "He did it multiple times. He could not get through a Republican primary today."

“We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief.”
~~~ President Ronald Reagan, 26 October 1984, in a speech to Temple Hillel and Community Leaders in Valley Stream

He would be laughed out of the primary today if he made such a remark.

That is pretty damn funny. Yeah, the Reaganites were not god-fearing GOP. They were Goldwater republicans if I recall correctly. Dick Nixon would be a flaming liberal in today's GOP.

I also get a chuckle out of when Republicans flout Abraham Lincoln - the socialist guy who put thru the first federal income tax.

Not to mention fighting a civil war against states' rights.

[cpebbles]

Yeah. Romney wants to turn us all into Mormons.

Wild guess: This is being offered up as a counterargument to Rick Santorum saying that JFK's stance that the separation of church and state are absolute "makes [him] sick."

[Leroy]

Who gives a flying fart what Santorum says again?

[cpebbles]

Anyone following the campaign for which this thread exists.

[Leroy]

Anyone following the campaign for the not worst republican candidate in this thread either knows that Santorum will not win or is a total idiot.