Just remembering better days, and celebrating one of the greatest Presidents of last (not to mention this) century. Happy Birthday President Ronald Reagan.
Remembering Better Days
February 6, 2013 by texaslynn
Posted in Conservative, Culture, Ideology, Republican Party | Tagged Birthday, bloom County, gipper, peach, Ronald Reagan | 9 Comments
9 Responses
Leave a comment Cancel reply
Archives
Search TexasLynn Blog
Posting Categories
Blogroll
Cartoonist
Columnist
-
Join 115 other subscribers
Recent Comments
Leroy-wp on Pass the Popcorn, This Show is… Rick W on The Culture Wars: Gender texaslynn on The Culture Wars: Gender Rick W on The Culture Wars: Gender A. L. Luttrell on Pass the Popcorn, This Show is… Top Posts & Pages
- The Great Divorce Discussion - Chapter 9 - George MacDonald
- The Great Divorce Discussion – Chapter 12 to 13a - The Tragedian
- The Great Divorce Discussion - Chapter 8 - Intentions
- The Great Divorce Discussion – Chapter 6 – Absconding with a Piece of Heaven
- The Great Divorce Discusion - Chapter 01 - The Queue to the Omnibus
- The Great Divorce Discussion – Chapter 7 – The Hard-Bitten Ghost
- Islam, A Bad Tree
- The Great Divorce Discussion – Chapter 10 – Bad Love
- The Great Divorce Discussion – Chapter 11 - Noble & Base
- Booker T. Washington vs. the Race-Baiters a Century Ago
TexasLynn Images
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
Cheer up. It’s always Carter-est before the dawn. 🙂
There is a Republican axiom: There could be no Reagan without a Carter.
Actually people think Carter was weak on defense but he’s the one who increased the number of nuclear missile submarines. He was no fool.
Hmmm… I was not aware of that. As for the fool part; I might have to disagree when considering Iran… but where his idiocy excelled was in economic policy. Overall Carter can easily be placed in the top two or three worst Presidents. For years I thought he was going to be a decent ex-President; but over the last decade he really went nuts. His accolades of Hugo Chavez just the latest example.
See? That’s great. If you believe Obama is worse than Carter, then the next Republican president has to be some sort of Ronald Reagan – Charlton Heston – John Wayne love child.
>> If you believe Obama is worse than Carter,
Obama IS worse that Carter. He just has better PR.
>> then the next Republican president has to be some sort of Ronald Reagan
THAT is not a given. The establishment won’t nominate a Reagan. Instead we get the likes of McCain and Romney. Obama never should have seen a second term.
>Obama never should have seen a second term.
That’s true. He was weak, and yet won.
I watched a documentary on Nixon recently. Very interesting. Early on, I think when running for the House from California, he decided the most important thing was to win. He didn’t lose an election for 30 years after that. He did all kinds of dirty things — having phone banks call people and tell them his opponent was a Communist, for example (he later admitted he knew that was false).
It made me think about your position on the Libertarians. It doesn’t matter how good your ideas are if you never win an election.
Of course, that leaves one with the default, amoral position that created Lance Armstrong.
Nixon was an amateur (and a saint) compared to Lyndon B. Johnson.
I don’t know if he had Kennedy killed; but I do know a few things. Morally he would have had no problem with it. Logistically, he had the people who could have done it. My guess on the various suspects in the Kennedy assassination is: 50% likely the Cubans; 30% likely the Mob; and 20% likely Johnson (0% likely a lone nut).
>> It made me think about your position on the Libertarians. It doesn’t matter how good your ideas are if you never win an election.
That’s only my position if I put myself in your shoes. Remember that I think the Libertarians are right on fiscal issues… AND THAT’S IT! From my perspective they are wrong on social issues and absolutely nuts on foreign policy. I see them as 2 out of 3 wrong whereas I think you see them as 2 out of 3 right. Correct me if I am mistaken.
And guess what I just considered. Now that I think about it I think I would take my own advice. The same advice you were insulted by and dismissed.
If I believed the following were true:- The Libertarians were in a position to be elected (President, Congress, whatever)
- The Libertarians could fix our fiscal mess (and their policies would)
- The conservatives had already won social and foreign policy issues (this is hypothetical… I’m putting the GOP in what I think is the Dems current position.)
- And thus the Libertarians would be unable to affect those issues.
I, for the good of the country, would vote Libertarian. I would let them fix the economy (Something my party would not or could not do) and then return to my social issue roots. Just sayin’ 🙂
>> It doesn’t matter how good your ideas are if you never win an election.
I would agree with that but would add… “and It doesn’t matter if you win the election if your ideas aren’t good.”
I really look at results (effectiveness); and winning elections is a just part of that. If you win and don’t do the right thing, you’re just as worthless as the guy who lost and never got the chance. Actually you’re more worthless than that guy; because now I’ve got to try and remove your incumbent @ss. If you change your position (from right to wrong) just to win… again you’re worthless from my perspective.
>> Of course, that leaves one with the default, amoral position that created Lance Armstrong.
Only if you choose the dark side… So No… There is another… way
Try to change (or take over the Party) from within. Bend it to your will or die trying. That is the Tea Party. 🙂
> I see them as 2 out of 3 wrong whereas I think you see them as 2 out of 3 right. Correct me if I am mistaken.
I think that’s right, though I have to admit ambivalence about so many things. I’m solid on my social beliefs, where I agree with the libertarians (wayyy left — even more liberal than the Dems). The other stuff (economics, foreign policy), I can see both sides. I admit I find the idea of cutting off certain troublesome allies refreshing, though the reality of doing so may be much worse than I realize.
>I, for the good of the country, would vote Libertarian. I would let them fix the economy (Something my party would not or could not do) and then return to my social issue roots. Just sayin’
Fair enough. I don’t want to dig up old posts, but I think what pissed me off was how you said it, not what was said. Conservatives really need to learn communication skills if they want broader support. I suspect they don’t really want broader support — they just want everyone else to admit they’re wrong 🙂
>Try to change (or take over the Party) from within. Bend it to your will or die trying. That is the Tea Party.
That may be the libertarians, too, which has some crossover appeal within the Tea Party. 🙂