Category Archives: Ronald Reagan

Mitt Romney doesn’t really have a Republican problem

Posted by Chris Cillizza Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is the undisputed frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination even as he continues to endure whispers that he is simply too moderate to win over a majority of the GOP. Exit polling from Romney’s 16-point victory in New Hampshire tells a very different story, however. Among [...]

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2012ers to attend Sept. 7 debate

The eight qualifying GOP candidates will debate Sept. 7 at the Reagan presidential library. | AP Photos By JAMES HOHMANN | The eight qualifying GOP presidential candidates have agreed to attend the Sept. 7 Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation debate. The Reagan Foundation, in conjunction with POLITICO and NBC News, will announce Thursday that Michele Bachmann, [...]

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Marco Rubio courts establishment Republicans

By SCOTT WONG SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — It might look like tea party hero Marco Rubio waded into enemy territory with stops in San Francisco and Beverly Hills this week. But rubbing shoulders with a different crowd is the point of the freshman senator’s three-day swing through the Golden State. The Florida Republican is out [...]

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Contrary to Media Reports, GOP has Strong Field

Matt Lowery Townhall.com This past week, I’ve seen or read plenty of news analyses suggesting that the Republicans have a weak field of presidential hopefuls for 2012. Not so. I believe that many of the potential candidates who might seek the GOP nomination have strategically strong paths to the White House, assuming that President Obama [...]

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Happy Birthday President Reagan

Sunday, February 6 is the 100th Birthday anniversary of President Ronald Reagan, my personal favorite of 20th Century Presidents and the man that every aspiring national candidate compares themselves to if they have any realistic hope of one day occupying the Oval Office. Reagan was known for his sunny disposition and unfailing optimism and, as [...]

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Ronald Reagan’s America

As we approach the Centennial Birthday celebration of President Reagan, the American leader who helped collapse the “Evil Empire” of the former Soviet Union without firing a shot or launching a missile, it’s a good time to reflect on the life of this great man and his many accomplishments. It’s also instructive to remember how [...]

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Would any Democrat really challenge Barack Obama?

POLITICO By JONATHAN MARTIN & BEN SMITH Some angry liberals may want to see President Barack Obama face a primary from his left in 2012, but they have no answer to a basic question: Who? Two of the Democratic Party’s most well-known progressives – Howard Dean and Russ Feingold – have both indicated that they [...]

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Obama looking weak for reelection

A recent poll showed President Obama has lost part of his base and only 1 in 3 would vote for him again.   BY STEVEN THOMMA McClatchy News Service WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama emerges from a bruising midterm election with uncertain prospects for the next one in 2012, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll. [...]

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Playing You to the Bitter End

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR BY: PETER FERRARA In July 1953, after President Eisenhower had been in office for just six months, the U.S. economy tumbled into recession. He didn’t barnstorm around the country talking about how President Truman had driven the economy into a ditch, and how it was such a struggle to get the economy [...]

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Sarah Palin speaks to electability issue

By JONATHAN MARTIN | POLITICO Speaking to a group of well-connected Republicans at a private dinner in Florida this week, Sarah Palin implicitly addressed questions about her own electability by noting that critics also said Ronald Reagan couldn’t win in 1980, three attendees told POLITICO. Palin, at an event organized by the conservative magazine Newsmax, [...]

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