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| Source:Jason Wright- President Ronald W. Reagan (Republican, California) 40th President of the United States (1981-89) |
“I created this more than ten years ago for a special dinner in Washington called the Ronald Reagan Award Gala. Seems his messages are just as important today as they were decades ago.”
From Jason Wright
Happy New Year everyone! I hope anyone reading this post is now at least somewhat sober and prepared to have a great 2012.
I wrote a piece last year for Ronald Reagan’s 100th Birthday laying out why even though I’m a Liberal Democrat, what I like and respect about President Reagan and I’ll probably be doing the same thing for his 101st birthday this year. And since we are just a little more than a month away from his birthday and with the Iowa Republican Caucus tomorrow, why not kick off 2012 for The FreeState with a look at Ron Reagan and the state of the current Republican Party.
We are about 24 hours away from the 2012 Iowa Republican Caucus which will decide who’ll have the momentum going into the New Hampshire primary. And the Republican Party still has no presidential candidate that resembles Ronald Reagan as a Reagan Conservative, a Classical Conservative. Who truly believed that big government was the problem with America and the way to get America going again was to get big government off the backs of the American people. And let free people live their lives.
All the GOP presidential candidates, of course except for Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman, believe in some form of big government. Some new intrusion into the lives of the American people in how we can live our own lives and a new intrusion in how states can govern themselves. Even if they are within the U.S. Constitution. And got this idea that free people should be free to live their own lives. But as long as they are living them the way these Christian fundamentalists want them to live.
There isn’t a Constitutional Conservative, again except maybe Ron Paul and John Huntsman. I find that unbelievable that a political party that calls themselves the Republican Party, wouldn’t have a Constitutional Conservative, all these candidates except for again Paul and Huntsman.
Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman and I will just say it, Paul and Huntsman are running for President in the wrong party. And I guess have missed the memo, or something and haven’t figured that out all of these candidates except for Paul and Huntsman, want to change the U.S. Constitution to limit our individual liberty.
What happened to the Barry Goldwater/Ron Reagan Republican Party, Goldwater and Reagan are obviously dead. But their ideas are not, what happened to their supporters who voted for them. And the political activists that brought about the Reagan Revolution of 1980. Winning 44 States, 56% of the popular vote in the presidential election. Senate Republicans winning back the Senate for the first time since 1952.
These people again except for the Huntsman and Paul Supporters and few Members of Congress like Representative Paul, Senator Paul, Senator Lee, Senator Johnson, you don’t hear from Classical Conservatives in the Republican Party anymore.
The GOP is now dominated by Protestant fundamentalist, Big Government Republicans, that want to limit our individual liberty, not protect it. Barry Goldwater and Ron Reagan would not recognize the Republican Party today and I believe may even of left it.
You could get the sense of how Senator Goldwater felt about the current Republican Party in the late 80s and 90s after he had already left Congress. And neither one of them could win the Republican nomination for president in either 2008 or 2012. If they were able to run for it.
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