by Michael Reagan
There’s one sure way for Republicans and conservatives to lose the 2012 presidential election: split over who their presidential nominee will be and fail to go all-out to support the winner.
People keep asking me, “What would your father, Ronald Reagan, do?” The answer is easy. No matter who the nominee is, he or she would get his support. After all, his famous “11th Commandment” demanded that Republicans support their party’s nominee, no matter who he or she might be.
He certainly would have supported John McCain in 2008. Tragically, if the party of Ronald Reagan had followed what would have been his lead, John McCain — not Barack Obama — would the president of these United States today. If Obama is not to be re-elected in 2012, Republicans need to get their act together, decide on a nominee, and back him or her to the hilt.
Let’s look at some flaws of the current front-runners. Both Romney and Perry, like the rest of us, have their share of flaws — Perry for having signed an executive order to inoculate 12-year-old girls against HPV, and signing a bill to provide in-state tuition to illegal aliens.
As for Mitt Romney, his membership in the Mormon church has earned the hostility of some Christians, and his institution of so-called RomneyCare when he was governor of Massachusetts has been questioned by many conservatives.
As things stand now, either Perry or Romney will be the 2012 Republican presidential nominee. Republicans will be obliged to support the winner if we can hope to win the presidential election, no matter the flaws.
It’s important to recall that Ronald Reagan outraged some Republicans when, as California’s governor, he raised taxes, signed an abortion bill, and became the first California governor to sign a no-fault divorce law. Despite all this, he still went on to become the greatest U.S. president of our lifetime.
If he were alive today and we were to nominate him in 2012, I wonder which wing of the GOP his opponents would come from.
Regardless of the outcome of such a confrontation, Republicans will have to either hang together or hang alone.
Should either Romney or Perry win the GOP presidential nomination, we are either going to support the winner in the November election or watch Barack Obama win a second term. Republicans simply can’t afford to be bystanders in 2012.
Put it this way: Who do you hope will be the president when 2013 dawns: Barack Obama or a Republican? The answer is clear, whether our nominee is Romney or Perry or even someone else, such as Michele Bachmann.
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Or Ron Paul…you know, that guy that’s consistently polling higher than the only “someone else” mentioned.
The old GOP is TOAST. This is the deserved punishment to republican members of the 109the congress for following GW Bush off the big government cliff, not to mention two unfunded, unsuccessful and seemingly interminable wars. Only the Tea Party now has the moral authority to reverse course, shrink the budget, eliminate entire non-constitutional government departments such as HEW, rein in the military, and revise the US tax system. The GOP presidential race is in part a scam: what is essential is control of the Senate so conservatives can impeach and remove from office whichever fool attains the White House. We also need to impose Congressional Term Limits (I suggest 12 years max) and to end the foolish, costly and counterproductive War on Drugs; drugs are terrible but the cost of this War is worse. Cain, Bachmann and Paul forever!
The founding fathers could have implemented term limits but didn’t for a reason. You mention Paul as of of the “forever” yet he has been a congressman for well over 12 years. Perhaps he is simply the best man to represent the people of Texas’s 14th district, regardless of how long he has been representing them.
I want our next president to be anybody but Obama! He is the worst president we’ve ever had! Jimmy Carter must be breathing a sigh of relief that he is no longer the worst president ever! Obama is purposely destroying our great country and leaving nothing for my daughter and future grandchildren! I will happily vote for whoever the GOP nominee is. We have to get rid of Obama and start repairing the damage he has done, which I’m afraid will take MANY years. Some of it may never be repaired.
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HERMAN CAIN IS A CANDIDATE AND HIS PHOTO WAS NOT INCLUDED.
WHY?
Who took this photo ?
ALL THE CANDIDATES SHOULD BE IN THE PHOTO.
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