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Title: Sarah Palin insults Ronald Reagan's legacy
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The Hill
URL Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-bl ... -insults-ronald-reagans-legacy
Published: Feb 8, 2011
Author: Brett Bodowsky
Post Date: 2011-02-08 13:33:45 by go65
Keywords: None
Views: 3068
Comments: 4
Now here comes the ubiquitous Sarah Palin claiming the mantle of Ronald Reagan's legacy. I have recently been minimizing the Sarah Palin commentary, and trying to emphasize more substantive matters, because I am bored to death by much liberal obsession with Palin and partisan hack jobs by the Dick Morris types on the right. In this case, Sarah Palin has nothing in common with Ronald Reagan. Reagan would never have thought of quitting as governor of California, as Palin quit as governor of Alaska. Reagan treated opponents with civility and decency, no matter how much he disagreed with them. Ronald Reagan believed in the art of negotiation, which he learned as president of the Screen Actors Guild and brought to the presidency of the nation. Reagan believed in working with opponents, as he worked with then-Speaker Tip O'Neill. Reagan believed in nuclear arms control, and he believed in negotiating with the Soviet Union, even before Gorbachev, when Reagan tried to negotiate with Brezhnev. Let’s make a larger point today, as we think about the 100th anniversary of Reagan's birth. Ronald Reagan was a giant of historic dimension, especially because of what he did during the Cold War, making a historic contribution to ending the Cold War. Sarah Palin is a sideshow, a nonentity on matters of substance and politics compared to Reagan. And a large number of Republicans and conservatives have little to nothing in common with what Ronald Reagan believed in, and accomplished. When Reagan was negotiating with Gorbachev, many of the neocons who applaud Reagan today were attacking him then for seeking arms control with the Soviets. Similarly, far too many Democrats invoke the names of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy without any commitment to the causes or the courage of John and Robert Kennedy. It is easy to talk of Sputnik moments but hard to champion moon-shot greatness. It would be good if the partisans of both parties would stop invoking the names of the great while pursuing the politics of the mediocre. Invoking the names of Reagan or the Kennedys should be limited to those who emulate their leadership by actions, not the wannabes in a political system and political discourse that does no honor to Ronald Reagan, John Kennedy or Robert Kennedy. Let’s honor Ronald Reagan for what he did, and not trivialize his name or his achievements with the small-minded politics that defines our times.
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#1. To: go65 (#0)
you betcha, "wink" "wink"
Nor does Sarah have Reagan's communication skills. It’s a difficult situation, this is that 3am White House phone call and it seems for many of us trying to get that information from our leader in the White House it it seems that that call went right to um the answering machine. And nobody yet has, no body yet has explained to the American public what they know, and surely they know more than the rest of us know who it is who will be taking the place of Mubarak and I’m not real enthused about what it is that that’s being done on a national level and from DC in regards to understanding all the situation there in Egypt. And in these areas that are so volatile right now because obviously it’s not just Egypt but the other countries too where we are seeing uprisings, we know that now more than ever, we need strength and sound mind there in the White House. We need to know what it is that America stands for so we know who it is that America will stand with. And we do not have all that information yet.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
WTF is Brett Bodowsky?
Even with Alzheimer's Reagan made more sense than Palin on any topic you'd care to choose.
Let’s honor Ronald Reagan for what he did, and not trivialize his name or his achievements with the small-minded politics that defines our times.
#2. To: go65 (#0)
In this case, Sarah Palin has nothing in common with Ronald Reagan. Reagan would never have thought of quitting as governor of California, as Palin quit as governor of Alaska. Reagan treated opponents with civility and decency, no matter how much he disagreed with them.
#3. To: go65 (#0)
Sarah Palin is a sideshow, a nonentity on matters of substance and politics compared to Reagan.
#4. To: lucysmom (#2)
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