birther controversy and unknown past aside, reagan was the champion of dampening the communist spirit and did more to stop it than anyone in American history. i'm glad he got to see it come full circle in his lifetime.
so what would he say or do if he were running against the radical obama.
To be honest, my politics are radically in the center, such as Obama and Reagan's were.
You can't go with the claptrap you hear either on FOX or anywhere else. You have to look at how an individual governs.
Those two Presidents have more in common than they have differences. Their personalities are the same, the type of person who knows how to take the temperature of a room and to put themselves right square in the center.
Reagan was a tax-cutting President before he had to raise revenue to keep up with spending and to help the economy. Obama's in the process of wanting to do the exact same thing.
Reagan drafted the nuclear arms treaty with Russia, and was the strongest advocate in the free world of reducing loose nukes. He would be proud that this President has continued his legacy, whereas the neo-cons abandoned it.
I don't feel that Reagan would be included in the GOP anymore, the same way I'm not included. We're centrists who put common sense over ideology and dogma on most issues, but in today's GOP it's like they have to pretend to be as stupid as possible in order to court every last ignorant ****** left in the land.
Have to pretend that Obama's a foreigner or you're excluded. Have to pretend that tax cuts solve unemployment and deficits or you're excluded. Have to be militantly pro-life or you're excluded. Have to believe that putting all our resources in chasing down every last illegal immigrant is the right thing to do over creating a pathway for some of 'em to be here legally so that they can pay into our system instead of sending it all back to Mexico, or you're excluded.
You have to believe in creationism or you're excluded.
You have to deny climate change or you're excluded.
You see where I'm going with this. Ronald Reagan would've been perceived by today's Republican party to be just a celebrity who talks nice but who isn't militant like they are about the stupid ass things they believe in.
Ronald Reagan passed amnesty for illegals. He raised taxes over a half dozen times after he cut them too deeply in his first year in office. That means Reagan saw the mistake and then corrected it. Today's Republicans don't ever admit mistakes, and thus dig themselves and the country into a deeper hole as a result of that denial.
Ronald Reagan would be a Democrat today. You look at Harry Reid's positions on social issues, and that's pretty much where Reagan was. Reagan would've never carried out all this bullshit against gay people. He was a fair man for a conservative, and he would have preached more tolerance instead of going to a Chick-Fil-A with his wife in order support the redneck who owns it who thinks that discriminating against people is a valid opinion.
Reagan would have passed the individual mandate, just like Obama. No free riders, bitches! They both believe in responsibility that way.
So, to make a short story long, Ronald Reagan would never run against Obama because Ronald Reagan is a fig newton in the Republican imagination. A saintly saint of a conservative who would have never lowered himself to the level of a Michele Bachmann or a Sarah Palin. Would never have lowered himself by talking like a teabagger does today.
