Oh, my gosh, Andrew Halcro has the "moran guy" picture on his blog!

[Blue_In_AK]

"Ignoring the Ignorant: The GOP's Challenge" http://www.andrewhalcro.com/ignoring_the_ignorant_the_gops_challenge

(An interesting piece by this former Republican and independent challenger to Sarah Palin in the 2006 governor election)

"There are any number of reasons for the Republican Party's defeat on November 4th. But high on the list is the fact that the party lost the battle for brains. Barack Obama won college graduates and postgraduates, John McCain did best among uneducated voters in Apppalachia and the South." The Economist 11/15/08

As the editorial in the latest issue of the Economist points out, the divorce from the intelligentsia by the Republican Party comes at a time when the American population is becoming more educated. More than a quarter of of Americans now have university degrees.

But yet shortly after Barack Obama became the first Democratic Presidential candidate to garner over fifty percent of the vote since the 1976 election of Jimmy Carter, conservative activists were already diagnosing the Republican Party's problem; apparently the GOP apparently needs to attract more of the same voters.


Tony Perkins of the Family Research said the GOP must return to conservative principles. "What has made the conservative movement strong is when you have social conservatives, fiscal conservatives and foreign policy conservatives working together," he said. "It's a return to fundamental conservative principles that Ronald Reagan showed work and that people can be attracted to, " Perkins told CNN.

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[Cleita]

1. Well, he lost me with his praise of Ronald Reagan, who was the

beginning of Republican dumbed down politics. However, maybe this is the beginning of not making a virtue out of ignorance and stupidity.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. But Andrew's an ex-Republican, so it's to be expected.

I appreciate him anyway because he's the one who opened up the investigation of Walt Monegan's firing. Anyone who helps with the destruction of Sarah Palin is okay by me -- at least for now.

ed. On re-reading this, I don't see that he's praising Reagan all that much.

"In 1988, Reagan left office after increasing federal spending by 69% and growing the annual deficit to $212 billion after promising to balance the budget during his term. While using government spending to boost the economy, Reagan doubled the federal debt to $1.9 trillion."

[malaise]

2. Great read

GOP - the party of morons.
K & R

[acmavm]

3. Why are republicans still holding Reagan up as the ideal? He was

totally unconscious during his second term. His administration started out with an act of treason. And treason was the rule of the day (Iran/Contra, etc.) The guy was a turnip when he was in the witness stand during the Iran/Contra hearings. A total embarrassment no matter what party you belonged to.

He was evil, selfish, greedy, and mean.

Oh damn, I just answered my own question.

[Uben]

5. Who else do they have?

Bush? Bush I, Ford? Nixon?


Now you know. They really don't have any president born in the twentieth century to praise, so they pick the lesser of all evils.

[acmavm]

6. The lesser? Reagan was a beast. He hated the poor, he intentionally

held up AIDs research because death was a nifty way to deal with the problem. He put threw the mentally ill out into the streets, he took medical care and food away from defenseless children. Reagan had blood dripping from every finger on his gnarly hands.

[SoCalDem]

7. and remember, his papers have never seen the light of day

except for his love letters to nancy:puke:

He has never been fully "vetted"...he burst onto the scene as genial moooovie star, and that's all he ever needed..He's the '80's version of Sarah Palin..and all the really shitty things done in his name (by Poppy of course) are still locked away in Texas with Poppy's papers..

He's always been a mythological figure, and republicans need for him to stay that way..

[acmavm]

8. Good point. That never occurred to me.NT

[southernyankeebelle]

9. Idiots

Tony and his gang don't get it still today. They will keep losing elections. People do not agree with the church mixing politics. Until the true republican party tell the religious right to knock it off they will only be a southern party.