Romney doesn't get Reagan.
REAGAN
Mitt Romney's latest comments about not having strident criticisms of President Obama is an indicator of how he is absorbed by a beltway mentality that is the antithesis of Ronald Reagan. Romney also said in multiple interviews that people in the primary are making bombastic comments that by implication they do not believe. Bombastic. You know like when Mitt Romney told Rick Perry that one cannot be too against illegal immigration. What statements has Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum or John Huntsman or Herman Cain said about Barack Obama that was not demonstrably true? This thinking comes from the "beltway" idea that most voters lean liberal, that if we go directly after Democrats foolishness and corruption that they will send voters into the Democrats arms; as if the Democrats never say bombastic things about Republicans such as
Republicans want to bring back Jim Crow Republicans want dirty air and water Republicans hate old people Republicans hate children....
...All of which are common fare from the Democrat Party leadership. The numbers show that in 2009 and 2010 that independents responded to the traditional/conservative TEA Party message in a big way, including women and Catholics in nine of the top ten swing states. Here is a novel idea Mitt Romney, instead of saying things that you think beltway independents want to hear, how about you show us that you have a core and tell us what you genuinely believe, assuming of course there is anything. David Axelrod says that do not have a core. You are proving him correct. As far as President Reagan, he savaged the left, he savaged Jimmy Carter. Reagan did it with the truth because he understood that truth is indivisible.
Reminder to the ‘Civility Police’: Reagan Savaged Carter and the Democrats With the Truth
In this piece I quote President Reagan and show you his speech at Liberty Island where he blasted the left and Jimmy Carter. Please click the link above for the video.
The Carter record is a litany of despair, of broken promises, of sacred trusts abandoned and forgotten. Eight million — eight million out of work. Inflation running at 18 percent in the first quarter of this year. Black unemployment at 14 percent, higher than any single year since the government began keeping separate statistics. Four straight major deficits run up by Carter and his friends in Congress. The highest interest rates since the Civil War, reaching at times close to 20 percent, lately they’re down to more than 11 percent but now they’ve begun to go up again. Productivity falling for six straight quarters among the most productive people in the world.
Through his inflation he has raised taxes on the American people by 30 percent, while their real income has risen only 20 percent. The Lady standing there in the harbor has never betrayed us once. But this Administration in Washington has betrayed the working men and women of this country.
Gallup: Americans Say Reagan is Greatest President
Here is more of Ronald Reagan being strident.
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Reagan’s short stories: Leftist college student vs. capitalist. The story of the Little Red Hen
Reagan didn't just go after the failed apparatchiks of the leviathan state, he went after the core of their belief system.
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And the elite media didn't like it either....
Reagan vs. Obama
Media Research Center: How the Elite Media Worked to Distort, Dismantle and Destroy Reagan’s Legacy