January 21, 2012
… seemed on the superficial level to offer continuity, it was actually an ideological reversal, back to the Liberal wing of the Republican Party. Though he lambasted his opponent Michael Dukakis, tarring him with the “Liberal” label, which Reaganism had turned into a dirty word, Bush himself was every bit a Progressive. His admitted trouble with “the vision thing” prevented him from continuing with Reagan’s unfinished work: shrinking government, e…
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January 12, 2012
In 1980, George H.W. Bush was making the same argument against Ronald Reagan that Mitt Romney is making this year. Bush argued that he was the most electable against Jimmy Carter. The big money Republican establishment was behind Bush because they feared that Reagan was too radical to win, and would carry the entire party down to historic defeat, like Goldwater did. Reagan even lost Iowa to Bush on that argument. But Reagan carried forward the p…
Tags: George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Mitt Romney, RINO Romney Is the Least Electable, Ronald Reagan
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February 1, 2010
…r of Saturday Night Live). President Nixon abused power and paid the price. However, the price the country was forced to pay because of Nixon’s indiscretions was the election of the worst president the country has ever seen, Jimmy Carter. When Mr. Carter left office in 1981, the economy was in shambles and our international policy was considered a joke. But, that is the topic of a possible future column. For now, I want to talk a little bit abo…
Tags: Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, New York Mets, Richard Nixon
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September 25, 2009
…e latest straw poll taken this weekend. His closest competitors only managed a paltry 12%. At that same convention Mitt Romney had the quote of the week when he said, “I’ll bet you never dreamed you’d look back at Jimmy Carter as the good old days.” Sad but true. At a time when the Republican Party is shrinking (AP polls indicate 42.6% of registered voters are Democrat, 32.5% are Republican and 24.8% are independent) someone nee…
Tags: Eric Cantor, Jimmy Carter, Joe Wilson, John McCain, Larry King, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Steele, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty
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January 2, 2012
The year was 1980. The President was Jimmy Carter. Under Carter’s leadership, the United States was experiencing stagflation, high unemployment, an energy crisis was brewing, and the Iran hostage crisis was in full effect. While he began his term with a 66% approval rating, it had dropped to 34% (with 55% disapproving). It was also an election year… and Ronald Reagan was Carter’s opponent. On November 4, 1980, Reagan took 44 states and won …
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September 17, 2009
…ing. For most of us we hoped that the fires of racial hatred would finally be suppressed even if it was for a little while. Well that “little while” lasted a bit over eight months. On Tuesday, September 15th, former President Jimmy Carter told NBC News “I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man.” With that one statement the dying embers that ha…
Tags: Jimmy Carter, Michael Steele, Newt Gingrich, Race Relations, RNC, Rodney King
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November 14, 2011
…an material about George W. Bush? It stands to reason. But missing from the world of entertainment is the lampooning of Barack Obama. Why? Don’t we remember George W. Bush being the subject of Jay Leno, David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel’s jokes on a nightly basis? Wasn’t George W. Bush portrayed by Will Ferrell on Saturday Night Live (“SNL”) every single week? Weren’t there several movies and documentaries directly and indirectly about the Bu…
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January 16, 2012
…. King some acknowledgment; it was whether it would be a federal holiday or a day of recognition. Democrats in Congress refused to hear any substitutions and cried racism by Republicans, neglecting to point out that President Jimmy Carter failed to help round up the necessary votes after promising to assist with a King Holiday if Democrats in Big Labor would support his 1976 Presidential campaign. They did and he did not, yet they did not accuse…
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November 30, 2011
…of the Obama Coalition”, Thomas Edsall, by pushing “takers” into a non-working, entitlement, nanny state, socialistic philosophical ideology. Republicanism is not lost but it is certainly a candidate for a “Progressive Lite” label….or what as “Congress is Useless” all about? http://www.hollywoodrepublican.net/2011/11/congress-is-useless/ And all that is supported in academia today is under the myth of “academic freedom”. Collectivism and totalit…
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October 30, 2011
… of these circumstances, the use of the word hero is trivialized. A deeper problem is that ides of myth, legend and story hold a society’s culture together. The concept of the hero is central to these. By misapplying the hero label and refraining from using it when needed takes our culture in the wrong direction. I hope we can recover the sense of propriety about who we call a hero and what they did to be considered brave before it’s too late. A …
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