Re: Is Reagan conservatism dead?
And ended the Iran hostage situation barely after he sat down in the chair.
But the thing that impressed me most about him in the first election was that he didn't need to mud sling all the time to get where he was. It wasn't a matter of voting against Carter that year- who didn't have the nerve to deal with conflict.
The man was a gentleman who had the guts to end conflicts and raise interest rates.
That said, he also didn't have today's problems and likely didn't realize what damage some of the policies he let get implemented would do.
The failure of Bush/Obama ki$$-all-big-banker-a$$ policy has done way too much damage. Between debt, outsourcing and the trade deficit, it has cut the legs out from under any hope of a Reagan-style recovery AFAICT.
No, this one is going to require not only a Reagan style conservative, but one that also has the same guts to deal with the real conflicts at hand.
Last edited by AeroSim; 05-26-2011 at 10:35 AM.
"We say in our platform that we believe that the right to coin money and issue money is a function of government....
Those who are opposed to this proposition tell us that the issue of paper money is a function of the bank and that the government ought to go out of the banking business. I stand with Jefferson rather than with them, and tell them, as he did, that the issue of money is a function of the government and that the banks should go out of the governing business."
William Jennings Bryan.