Kruathammer says that Jeb Bush is wrong about Reagan, that he would indeed be very comfortable with the Tea Party movement. He adds that Reagan’s successes weren’t because Reagan was ‘the great compromiser’, but because he campaigned on a specific agenda and the American people awarded him with a clear mandate to accomplish that agenda, of which Democrat leaders couldn’t stand in the way:
Krauthammer: Reagan would be very comfortable with today’s Tea Party movement
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Buddy
June 13th, 2012
What a handsome portrait of a great man.
Rest In Peace Mr President, may your memory be eternal.
Buddy
June 13th, 2012
Krauthammer is correct. Mr Reagan’s strongest virtue was his devoted love of the USA based on his full understanding and support of its foundational principles.
Does the country today possess ANY leader who understands what Mr Reagan knew so clearly ????
Stirrin the B.S.
June 13th, 2012
Actually Reagan was a compromiser, but his compromises were firmly rooted in conservative values and at the end of the day stayed right of center.
After three decades of compromising further and further left, the Tea Party finally said “enough is enough, we turn back around now! And if it means no more compromising with the bullsheviks, then so be it.”
Renaldo Magnus would be perfectly comfortable with that. He would understand what needed to be done to take back the country that he loves.
CrustyB
June 13th, 2012
“Reagan’s successes weren’t because Reagan was ‘the great compromiser’”
Right on. Gorbechev repeatedly demanded that Reagan share SDI with him and Reagan put down his foot and said no every time. A member of his own cabinet threatened to resign if Reagan didn’t back off his opposition of the Siberian pipeline. But Reagan refused to let the Soviets buy even one US screw to build it.
“Compomiser” my ass. Reagan had an adamentine spine. He was the last true US president.
persecutor
June 13th, 2012
@Buddy: Sarah Palin
Dr. Tar
June 13th, 2012
Seems like good company to me Krauthammer, Reagan and the Tea Party and in November we’re going to party like its 1984 (Reagans 2nd term not the Orwell book).
Bob M.
June 13th, 2012
That’s because those of us who remember how GOOD we had it with President Reagan, INVENTED the Tea Party!!!
moarkdave
June 13th, 2012
As earlier said – Great portrait of President Reagan.
I do not disagree with what he said, but why is Kruathammer saying nice things about the Tea Party? Is it because of the sounding election in Wisconsin? Is he trying get cozy with the Tea Party people, since he was no fan earlier.
Noelegy
June 13th, 2012
I figured out long ago that all of these people saying terrible things about the Tea Party must not have the slightest idea about what the Tea Party stood for, but weren’t going to let a little thing like that stop them from having an opinion. By that token, I think that Ronald Reagan would be proud of the Tea Party movement.
chief
June 13th, 2012
For anyone to suggest that the Tea Party, which is largely the creation of middle-aged and older Americans, isn’t the direct outgrowth of our love for and the patriotism of the ONLY great President of our lifetime is completely ludicrous.
Rick Santelli gave it a name, but Ronald Reagan is its heart.
chiefillinicake
June 13th, 2012
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Tracy
June 13th, 2012
President Reagan, A Great American President
Whenever I see a picture of President Reagan, I’m reminded of what is meant by American exceptionalism and proud.
NObama2012!
Noelegy
June 13th, 2012
@Tracy, President Reagan’s terms lasted from when I was ten to when I was eighteen, so I wasn’t terribly interested in politics then, but I do remember how virulently his critics hated him and dismissed him as bumbling and stupid. That they attempt to drape themselves in his aura after his death is nothing short of obscene.
TooMuchTime
June 13th, 2012
The disgusting part in all of this is that the establishment GOP did not want Reagan to run in 1980. Just like they didn’t want him to run in 1968 or in 1976 because they had their candidates (Nixon and Ford) who were “conservative enough.”
The establishment GOP thought Carter would get a second term and then they’d run some RINO in 1984 and get the presidency then. When Reagan threw his hat into the ring for 1980, they were against him and started pushing George H.W. Bush instead. When Reagan trounced Carter, revived the economy, and, once more, gave us a country to be proud of (It’s Morning Again), the GOP tried to rewrite history to fit their narrative.
Now they try to tell us the GOP is too ultraconservative even for Reagan. BS! The GOP is just as squishy as it was when Reagan was President. The difference is, the intelligent folks recognize that and the RINOs just want to steal some of Reagan’s thunder.
TooMuchTime
June 13th, 2012
Gawd! I wish I had that picture, and autographed too!
webbie h
June 13th, 2012
according to B#ck, Reagan wanted The 5000 Year Leap used as a textbook for high schools all across the country…
of course, ANOTHER time that a MEMBER of the fucking kenneDIES (Ded) made sure that it wasn’t..
serfer62
June 13th, 2012
You have to understand Jebbie…he takes after his mother the rino.
Blacksmith8✡
June 13th, 2012
Sorry, small side note here: Santelli DID NOT INVENT or NAME anything.
Weeks before tax day 2009, LibertyBelle got Michelle Malkin to share the date for a ‘get together’. It got called tea party before the day was over.