Last week at CPAC potential Republican candidates were invoking President Ronald Reagan ad-nauseam. Ed Schultz asked Bruce Bartlett, former adviser to Reagan, how would Reagan have been treated at CPAC.
"I think he probably would be booed out of the crowd," Bruce Bartlett said. "If only because he gave amnesty to illegal aliens back in 1986. Nativists like Representative Steve King routinely denounce Reagan for that. They would have denounced him for raising taxes eleven times.
They would have denounced him for raising the debt limit. They would have denounced him for running budget deficits. They would have denounced him for supporting labor unions. ... And we are not even getting into all the liberal things that he did as governor such as signing the most liberal abortion law in the United States. I think this guy definitely would not be a favorite of this crowd."
Ed Schultz then asked if it is that conservatives and CPAC attendees just do not know their history.
"Well, I guess they have completely forgotten about George W. Bush whom they defended to the heavens when he was in office," Bruce Bartlett said. "But yes, they are really rather stupid and not very well read. To them Reagan is a distant figure in history."you know i think the reason we keep hearing repetitive things from the republicans is like myself and everyone else knows they lack the ability to collectively conceive new anything, no one has in the past 6 years has really had anything to offer us for our vote but bills that either take our right to vote, get help if we're poor or sick, get a job can anybody say they got a job directly do to republican legislation?
aside from those hired to come up with new ideas they are just to embedded in their opposition they ignore it or try to redefine it case in point AUTOPSY, and "WE DON'T NEED TO CHANGE OUR VALUES (now known as "PRINCIPLES") JUST HOW WE SAY THEM", arrogance is the biggest firewall they have constructed against themselves. it's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot but it is really whole other thing entirely when you take aim.
