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**Thifiadardivy** · 03-02-2007, 02:08 PM

I agree with you that once Bush is gone there is hope for the GOP, but I suspect the direction I would like to see that hope progress toward is a lot different from the direction you would take. Reagan was a pragmatist that talked a good conservative game. If you want a conservative in the republican party you have to go back to Goldwater really. While Reagan was clearly more conservative than those that came before him, save for Godwater, he was not a true conservative. Reagan had no problem coming to agreement with the opposition if it gained him something he wanted, and in return they got something they wanted. Hence the pragmatism. Now if this is what you would like to see the GOP return to then I guess we are in agreement. If not I suspect we will be batteleing each other to try and direct the GOP alnog our partiular paths.

I agree, but I think once Bush is gone it's not going to be a peaceful re-moving in of the old right (no matter how much I would like it.) Bush has used a lot of things to gain a lot of America to his side, and that is going to make it that much more difficult for the old right to make their cause seem just and right again. The old right is going to try and cut spending (this is considering they ever get into a noteworthy congressional number) and they're going to have mud slung at them WRT security much like the left gets now. Then you're really gonna see something.

03-02-2007, 02:08 PM	#33
Thifiadardivy Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 552 Senior Member	I agree with you that once Bush is gone there is hope for the GOP, but I suspect the direction I would like to see that hope progress toward is a lot different from the direction you would take. Reagan was a pragmatist that talked a good conservative game. If you want a conservative in the republican party you have to go back to Goldwater really. While Reagan was clearly more conservative than those that came before him, save for Godwater, he was not a true conservative. Reagan had no problem coming to agreement with the opposition if it gained him something he wanted, and in return they got something they wanted. Hence the pragmatism. Now if this is what you would like to see the GOP return to then I guess we are in agreement. If not I suspect we will be batteleing each other to try and direct the GOP alnog our partiular paths. I agree, but I think once Bush is gone it's not going to be a peaceful re-moving in of the old right (no matter how much I would like it.) Bush has used a lot of things to gain a lot of America to his side, and that is going to make it that much more difficult for the old right to make their cause seem just and right again. The old right is going to try and cut spending (this is considering they ever get into a noteworthy congressional number) and they're going to have mud slung at them WRT security much like the left gets now. Then you're really gonna see something.
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