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thinkprogress.org - 2/23/2009
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During the Bush administration, conservatives heralded Ronald Reagan’s own struggle against terrorism as the ideal model for George W. Bush. Frank Gaffney hoped Bush “not only memorializes Ronald Reagan’s moral compass and strategic vision but emulates them ,” while Rich ...
rasmussenreports.com - 2/26/2009
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rasmussenreports.com —
In early October , as the meltdown of
the financial industry gained momentum following the collapse of...
Lehman Brothers, a Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 59% of U.S. voters agreed with Ronald Reagan that “government is not the ...
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59% Still Believe Government Is the Problem
newmajority.com - 3/1/2009
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newmajority.com —
It's CPAC weekend - the grand rallying of
the conservative clan here in Washington. It's a season...
where conservatives from across the country meet to compare notes, share stories, and seek political consensus
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THE GOLDWATER MYTH
neoneocon.com - 2/21/2009
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neoneocon.com —
Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic is happy
about recent political developments . Very happy. After decades...
of wandering in the Republican desert (and he includes the Clinton years as a craven accommodation to Republicans), the good guys ...
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We’re liberals and we run the show: we don’t need your ...
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Reagan vs Bush
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... A liberal defends Reagan from the charge that his brand of foreign policy leads directly to Bush's. I know that the US had all sorts of alliances with some very nasty characters in the 1980s, which meant, in some inexcusable cases, tolerating human rights abuses. But the idea that Reagan would have authorized torture by his own administration is unimaginable to me. Similarly, that Reagan would believe that occupying and nation-building for a decade in Afghanistan and Iraq was a good idea. The man was interested in long-term peace, not constantly starting and fighting wars; he ...
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