What would Ronald Reagan do?
Nobody knows, of course, since he isn’t here to tell us. I suspect, however, that the very last thing he would do is start blaming his own. He wouldn’t go off half-cocked for all the world to see how his political adversaries had gotten the better of him. And he wouldn’t be raising any white flags just because the realities of the political landscape demanded new, slightly different strategies.
He would be the first among us, I believe, to demand an end to holding every candidate up to the false picture of conservative perfection we ourselves have created. The problem with making icons is that it is necessary to discount every negative and embellish every positive. When this process is applied to human beings, nothing can result but a false picture that sets its admirers up for failure and disappointment in the long term.
Would Ronald Reagan encourage this childish fantasy? I think not.
And it wouldn’t take him five minutes to list the vast differences between one of the Republican centrist candidates and either a Hillary Clinton or a Barack Obama. Both stand for centralized government solutions to every individual problem. Both stand for expansion of government control on everything from regulating the environment and our health care to an even tighter, iron grip on our education system. Both are internationalists who see America as more of a problem to the world than the source of emulation and better solutions.
When I heard Ann Coulter last week on Hannity and Colmes say that if John McCain is the Republican nominee for President, she would go out and campaign for Hillary Clinton because there isn’t a shred of difference between them, I gasped in disbelief. Honestly, I thought the poor dear has completely lost it…
…Time to get a real grip Republicans. Face reality. And elect a true America-loving centrist who can stop the bleeding. The whole electorate is crying out for an end to the polarizing politics and a man who can truly unite the Country.
We need to do this one for the Gipper.