Would Reagan support McCain ? ..This is interesting

[DoctorDeath]

Newsmax.com
>[/align]> Ronald Reagan Would Back McCain[/align]>[/align]> Thursday, February 14, 2008 3:22 PM[/align]>[/align]> By: Michael Reagan[/align]>[/align]> In 1976, the Ford versus Reagan campaign for the Republican presidential nomination got so heated it looked as if my father and Jerry Ford would never again talk to one another.[/align]>[/align]> When it was over and Ford had won, what did Ronald Reagan do? He simply went all-out to help Ford win his re-election, as did I and as did my sister Maureen. My dad simply followed his rule of backing the Republican candidate no matter who he was.[/align]>[/align]> Assuming that John McCain will be the Republican nominee, you can bet my father would be itching to get out on the campaign trail working to elect him even if he disagreed with him on a number of issues.[/align]>[/align]> Unlike my father, a lot of conservatives stayed home in 1976, and we got four years of Jimmy Carter, whose main legacy was to drive the Shah of Iran from power and create the Islamic Republic of Iran with a bunch of wild-eyed mullahs running the show. He also gave us 20 percent inflation and long, long lines at the gas pumps. And don"™t forget 440 days of Americans held hostage by the mullahs.[/align]>[/align]> By staying home those conservatives made possible the future election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.[/align]>[/align]> We are still suffering from the legacy of James Earl Carter, thanks to the conservatives who refused to follow Ronald Reagan"™s example and instead sulked at home while the nation was being handed over to the worst president in American history.[/align]>[/align]> We were still in the middle of the Cold War in those days, and by staying home conservatives risked losing that war by allowing an incompetent leader to become commander in chief.[/align]>[/align]> Four years later Ronald Reagan took over, the hostages were immediately released, and he went on to win the Cold War. Now we have another world-wide war going on with a hidden enemy sworn to kill us all, and the policy of the Democrats running for the presidency is to throw up their hands and withdraw from the battlefield, leaving it to the enemy "” and our fate in the hands of Osama bin Laden.[/align]>[/align]> Is that what the let"™s-stay-home-on-election-day conservatives want? Do they want the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, as their president? Do they want the pseudo-Marist Barack Obama "” who reportedly has a photo of the murderous Castroite thug Che Guevara hanging in his Houston, Texas campaign headquarters "” hanging that photo in the Oval Office?[/align]>[/align]> Do they want Hillary Clinton, the duplicitous former first lady, back in the White House enjoying all those furnishings her staff allegedly tried to swipe from the mansion?[/align]>[/align]> Do they want a Democrat spending even more money that the government doesn"™t have on scores of programs right out of Karl Marx"™s playbook?[/align]>[/align]> That"™s exactly what they"™ll get if they sit out the election and stay home on Election Day. That"™s called biting off your nose to spite your face. Or even more to the point, political suicide.[/align]>[/align]> Let me say this. There has been plenty of battling in the primaries, and I"™ve been in the middle of the battle, but until now haven"™t committed myself to any candidate, waiting until we had a nominee.[/align]>[/align]> That"™s over.[/align]>[/align]> If John McCain is the nominee of the party, this Reagan will happily campaign with him. The alternative is unthinkable to anyone who loves this nation.[/align]>[/align]> © 2008 Mike Reagan[/align]

[falcon]

Today we havethose widely worshipped "conservative" godsLimbaugh and Coulterlying aboutMcCain and shilling for the Democrats.

[Fieldmouse]

ORIGINAL: falcon

Today we havethose widely worshipped "conservative" godsLimbaugh and Coulterlying aboutMcCain and shilling for the Democrats.

There's that word lying again. Care to elaborate and educate us on the lies told? After all, I'm still waiting for my marching orders from Rush.

[ipscshooter]

If John McCain is the nominee of the party, this [voter] will happily campaign with him. The alternative is unthinkable to anyone who loves this nation.

That pretty much sums it up right there...

[CalHunter]

ORIGINAL: falcon

Today we havethose widely worshipped "conservative" godsLimbaugh and Coulterlying aboutMcCain and shilling for the Democrats.

This post doesn't make a lot of sense other than both have indeed bagged on McCain. Neither is a god nor worshipped. I agree with Mike Reagan and think many people are more intent on expressing their anger than in ensuring we don't have hillary or obama for president. That's sad because there is a difference. McCain is by no means our best conservative candidate but he is far better than either hillary or obama.

[Aught Six]

Yes, I tend to think he would endorse McCain.

[James B]

I am sure he would. I would like to back McCain but his immigration policy makes me want to puke. That said, he is better than anything the Dems have by far. I will hold my nose and vote for him.

[Charlie P]

McCain's and Reagan's immagration polcy are pretty close aren't they?

[James B]

Yup.

[sachiko]

Well if Ronald Reagan himself comes back and endorses McCain, he'll definitely get my vote.