Posted by
Sanity 102 on Saturday, January 05, 2008 6:52:05 PM
Hugh Hewitt is wrong.
And fit to be tied.
For almost 3 hours, Hewitt ranted about the take over of the "party of Reagan" by the Huckabees/McCainites; neither of whom are conservatives aka Reaganites.
First off, the GOP is the party of REPUBLICANS.
That's right.
They are NOT the party of Constitutionalists.
They are NOT the party of Libertarians.
They are NOT the party of Conservatives with a capital "C".
And they are NOT, read my words...NOT the party of Reagan.
The REPUBLICAN party did not begin and end with Reagan. They believed in God, Capitalism, and less government control LONG before Reagan traded his union card for membership in the same political party that LIncoln belonged to.
Honest.
Reagan spent tons of money--and we weren't a nation in war at the time.
Reagan gave REAL amnesty to illegals--something Hewitt "understood" after watching Proposition 187 ( a bill to deny social services to illegals in California) put the GOP party in political wilderness for over a decade.
Reagan went after one small FEDERAL union--the air traffic controllers--but left the rest of unions in California to near bankrupt the state he was governor of.
In fact, if Reagan was to be judged by today's "Conservative" standards...every honest person would have to say that Reagan himself was NOT a member of the party of Reagan.
I sometimes wonder...what does Nancy Reagan think? She was there when the media made fun of her husband's Star Wars talks and his foreign policies.
Does she feel vindicated?
Or is she disgusted with their hypocrisy?
And perhaps sadden.
For in his name, they will destroy the party he loved so much, he created an eleventh commandment...
"Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican."
Republicans...like Huckabee and McCain...