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36 matches for 'ronald reagan'
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A badge of honor
Number of comments: 4Senator Reid calls Senator Ted Cruz a "schoolyard bully."
If, as was reported last week, he might run for the White House in 2016, is he a Ronald Reagan whose adamant conservative principles will confound the naysayers, attract voters and lead his party to national victory? Or is he a [...]
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Video | Patti Davis reveals Ronald Reagan's views on gay rights - Gwissues With Howard Bragman
On YouTube:
[...]Ronald Reagan's daughter talks to Howard Bragman about her new novel, growing up with a Republican father and what his thoughts might be on gay rights today.
From Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida at April 05, 2013, 11:35am in Politics, News, Life, MiamiHerald.com Blogs
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David Stockman lets it all out ... by gimleteye
I never much appreciated the independent thinking that is at the heart of David Stockman, while he was budget director for Ronald Reagan. He has emerged as an eloquent speaker and writer, opposing reckless economic policies of Democrats and Republican administrations. Here he tackles the issue of his former boss, [...]
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March 8, 1983
The "evil empire" is still with us to this day...
More from Paul Kengor at American Spectator:
Today, Ronald Reagan’s Evil Empire speech turns 30 years old. It stands as one of the most memorable orations of the last three decades. It coined a phrase, a tag, a label — one [...]
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Tweet of the Day
President Ronald Reagan's son, Michael Reagan, on Sen. Marco Rubio's response to the president's State of the Union address:
[...]Marco Rubio would make my father proud...Thankyou
— Michael Reagan (@ReaganWorld) February 13, 2013
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Marco Rubio: The Cuban Ronald Reagan
Number of comments: 3This post was originally published here on August 2nd, 2011, and we thought it only appropriate to share it with our readers once again in preparation for tonight's historical speech by Senator Marco Rubio as he becomes the first Cuban American to deliver the Republican Address to the nation.
_________________Last [...]
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Souto announces $8.7 million in Tropical Park improvements
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Stressing both economic and tourist importance to Miami-Dade County, Commissioner Javier Souto announced $8.7 million in improvements to Tropical Park to include the new Ronald Reagan Equestrian Center as well as a Cultural and Arts Center. The enhancement plan provides a fitting complement to the modernization of Bird Road at [...]
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Home On Derange
Number of comments: 4Sometime back during World War I, Ronald Reagan lived in an apartment in Chicago. He was four years old at the time, and his family lived there for less than a year.
The University of Chicago now owns the property and plans to demolish it to make room for a parking [...]
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The "Anti-Gun" Ronald Reagan
Just one more piece of evidence that Ronald Reagan would not have a chance with the conservatives in today's America. From an op-ed he wrote for the New York Times back in 1991... Named for Jim Brady, this legislation would establish a national seven-day waiting period before a handgun purchaser could take [...]
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Crist attends White House Christmas Party, registers officially as a Democrat
It was just a matter of time. Charlie Crist is becoming a Democrat.
Crist — Florida’s former Republican governor who relished the tough-on-crime nickname “Chain Gang Charlie” and used to describe himself variously as a “Ronald Reagan Republican” and a “Jeb Bush Republican” — on Friday evening signed [...]
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Coincidentally…
Victor Davis Hanson on the second-term scandals and implosion we'll be thoroughly enjoying...
The second-term curse goes like this: A president (e.g., Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, etc.) wins re-election, but then his presidency implodes over the next four years — mired in scandals or disasters' [...]
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Sowell explains the ‘need to explain’
Number of comments: 1Thomas Sowell in The American Spectator explains why Reagan won two landslides. In a nutshell, he explained the timelessness of conservative principles to WE THE PEOPLE.
The most successful Republican presidential candidate of the past half century -- Ronald Reagan, who was elected and reelected with landslide [...]
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SFDB Quote Of The Day
Today's quote comes from Ronald Reagan and is a reminder for conservative wunderkinds like Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan who were still playing with their toy train sets when Reagan was president. .' [...]
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Good News? There’s good news?
Number of comments: 2I don;t see any silver linings, but whatever.
[...] The Republican Party chose a liberal candidate and tried to pass him off as a Ronald Reagan to conservatives and a Bill Clinton to Liberals. But the fact is, a rhino cannot be passed off as an elephant, and neither can [...]
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Why we love(d) Ronald Reagan
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An Intriguing Conundrum
It's funny how a little realism can inject commonsense into the conservative mind... [Jon] Campbell, 49, has voted Republican in nearly every presidential election since he cast his vote for Ronald Reagan in 1980, but this year might be different. For two years his 22-year-old stepdaughter, a self-employed dog trainer, didn't' [...]
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PSSSSST?—Oye nangaras: John Lennon was a Reaganite
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In 2000 a statue of John Lennon (for imbecile tourists oblivious of Cuban history) was unveiled in Havana by some pretty important personages.
"Thanks all the same nangara come-mierdas, but in 1980 I was 'fixin to endorse Ronald Reagan!"
"John Lennon said he would have'" [...]
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Charlie Crist Is Ronald Reagan … Or Something
Number of comments: 1Former Florida Governer (and dust under Sen. Marco Rubio's feet) Charlie Crist was given the stage at the DNC's convention yesterday.
Of course MSNBC's Chris Matthews has made Charlie Crist his new hero. MSNBC ran Crist's speech at the DNC Convention, yet refusing to carry Artur Davis's speech last [...]
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Clint Eastwood Talking To A Chair Is The Most Old-Person Thing To Ever Happen In Florida
There was a lot speculation on who the big supersecret "surprise" speaker at the RNC would be. Would it be Sarah Palin? Tim Tebow? A hologram of Ronald Reagan? Perhaps a James Polk puppet? WR [...]
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Clint Eastwood Talking To A Chair Is The Most Old-Person Thing To Ever Happen In Florida
There was a lot speculation on who the big supersecret "surprise" speaker at the RNC would be. Would it be Sarah Palin? Tim Tebow? A hologram of Ronald Reagan? Perhaps a James Polk puppet? WR [...]
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Romney's Florida dilemma
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"To get a more nuanced look at the economy’s role in the presidential election, The Miami Herald analyzed eight economic indicators for the 14 states where polls are the closest. The exercise was designed to roughly answer the question Ronald Reagan made famous in 1980 when unseating another Democratic president" [...]
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Damn the Torpedos on the “Lateeeno” Vote, says Romney?
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"Frankly my dear, regarding that Lateeeeno vote....."Hideous truths (from Ann Coulter):
"How can a country that elected Ronald Reagan have Obama tied in the polls with Mitt Romney?
The answer is: It's not the same country. The "browning of America" is not a natural process. It's been artificially" [...]
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen bashes President Obama for no Israel visits. What about Reagan, Bush, Nixon?
Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a backer of Republican Mitt Romney and the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, took a swipe at President Obama today for failing to visit Israel during his first term.
The left is pushing back, saying that Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and George [...]
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Today Is National Ice Cream Day
National Ice Cream Day was created by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. Why? Who cares? Don't spend a lot of time today asking yourself stupid questions. Go get yourself some ice cream. Check out CBS4's short list of some excellent South Florida ice cream parlor choices. BTW, plain vanilla bean is my' [...]
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Quote of the Day
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Judge Richard Posner, appointed by Ronald Reagan:
' [...]I've become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy.
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Ronald Reagan’s July 4, 1986 Speech
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In lieu of our current POTUS giving a July 4 address to the nation, I give you a POTUS we all greatly admire. I say "all" because even the idiot "progressives" try to coopt him and jump on his bandwagon to unsuccessfully prove this or that.
Enjoy.
(I stand corrected, [...]
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Right back at ya!
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Activists take out frustration on Ronald Reagan's portrait:
Last Friday, an attaché of important gay people from Philadelphia made a trip to Washington D.C. as invited guests of President Barack Obama for the White House’s first-ever gay pride reception. There, they danced to the sounds of a [...]
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They are not worthy to be Ronald Reagan’s booger hanky
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I'm amused, and frankly a little annoyed, that our professional moron class, "progressives" and liberals, deign to mention Ronald Reagan in their feeble attempts to point out how RADICAL and RACIST and SEXIST and HOMOPHOBIC and TERRIBLE and AWFUL and OUT-OF-TOUCH the modern conservative Tea Party movement' [...]
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Bush: Reagan Would Be Rejected By Today's Republicans
I've noted in these pages before how Ronald Reagan, if he were alive today, would be cast aside by today's crop of extremist conservatives. Oh, they love to say they admire the man but the truth is that in today's world they would most likely call him a RINO and' [...]
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Jeb: my dad, Reagan would struggle in a GOP primary these days
From BuzzFeed:
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said today that both Ronald Reagan and his father George H. W. Bush would have had a difficult time getting nominated by today's ultra-conservative Republican Party.
"Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground, as would [...]
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