[Video] Rand Paul, Reagan Republican

[SilentBull]

Didn't see this posted.

 

[01000110]

Great video.

 

[Indy Vidual]

Reagan was a huge disappointment for economic conservatives & Libertarians.
Perhaps I'll try the video later, but my first reaction is "Just Say NO!"


Edit:
Reagan was so bad that Rand's dad was motivated to leave the party.... LOL?

 

[garyallen59]

Wow. Reminiscent of Ron Paul: A New Hope from 2008. This is what we have been missing this election.

 

[Joeinmo]

Bump -- great video

 

[georgiaboy]

Fabulous. Spread it!

 

[ThePaleoLibertarian]

It's a good video, but the Reagan knob-slobbering that Republicans always do is just embarrassing at this point.

 

[Krugminator2]

Reagan was a huge disappointment for economic conservatives & Libertarians.
Perhaps I'll try the video later, but my first reaction is "Just Say NO!"


Edit:
Reagan was so bad that Rand's dad was motivated to leave the party.... LOL?

He was a disappointment only to those who live in fantasy world who will whine anyone in charge.

He certainly wasn't perfect but he was the exact right person for the job at exactly the right time. He beat inflation, cut taxes, and put a regulatory freeze that created the greatest upward economic boom in world history over the next 20 years. I get all the arguments against him. It still doesn't change the fact that he was best President since Coolidge.

 

[Indy Vidual]

It's a good video, but the Reagan knob-slobbering that Republicans always do is just embarrassing at this point.

Did you mean: Reagan knob-slobbing

 

[Indy Vidual]

He was a disappointment only to those who live in fantasy world who will whine anyone in charge....

Oh, people "who live in fantasy world" (for example) Dr. Ron Paul who left the party because of Ronnie's spending?

 

[CPUd]

Who else do the rank-and-file GOP have to look up to? Nixon, Bush?

 

[erowe1]

He was a disappointment only to those who live in fantasy world who will whine anyone in charge.

He certainly wasn't perfect but he was the exact right person for the job at exactly the right time. He beat inflation, cut taxes, and put a regulatory freeze that created the greatest upward economic boom in world history over the next 20 years. I get all the arguments against him. It still doesn't change the fact that he was best President since Coolidge.

Sarcasm?

No, he didn't cut taxes. No he wasn't the best president since Coolidge (and even to use the word "best" of anyone in that lot is far too generous).

We must do better than Reagan. The nation cannot afford not to. And this has to be said by conservatives and libertarians. To make him some kind of benchmark of the best we can do is to concede total defeat.

 

[erowe1]

Who else do the rank-and-file GOP have to look up to? Nixon, Bush?

Of elected presidents in the modern era? Nobody. Period.

So let's give them someone to look up to.

 

[erowe1]

I will say that what Reagan portrayed himself as in his speeches was good, and if he had been what he pretended to be, he really would have been the least evil president since Coolidge. There is something to be said for the strategy of using the words of Reagan to advance our cause, and to show that we really want to walk the talk.

 

[Krugminator2]

Sarcasm?

No, he didn't cut taxes. No he wasn't the best president since Coolidge (and even to use the word "best" of anyone in that lot is far too generous).

We must do better than Reagan. The nation cannot afford not to. And this has to be said by conservatives and libertarians. To make him some kind of benchmark of the best we can do is to concede total defeat.

He dramatically cut both rates (which is most important) and actual revenue. If he isn't the best President since Coolidge who is?

He and Margaret Thatcher did more for freedom than any almost leaders in world history. And I would put them in the same category as Friedman and Hayek in terms of their tangible accomplishments in making the world freer. Results matter and it is hard to argue with what Reagan accomplished looking back at history. It is hard to imagine how much poorer and less free the world would have been without Reagan. I would say we can't afford not to have another Reagan. The reason I have been excited about Rand is that I see him as a more principled and more philosophically libertarian version of Reagan

 

[Indy Vidual]

+1 for "Results matter", but...
The "War on Drugs" has done a lot of harm.

 

[Jackie Moon]

Who else do the rank-and-file GOP have to look up to? Nixon, Bush?

Right, it doesn't matter what people here think of Reagan... it matters what old GOP voters in Iowa think of him.

 

[erowe1]

He dramatically cut both rates (which is most important) and actual revenue.

Did he cut spending? Total taxation = total spending. Always.

If he isn't the best President since Coolidge who is?

I'm not sure. But Ford, and Eisenhower were less bad than Reagan. Kennedy and Carter might have been too.

I'd probably call Ford the least terrible on balance.

 

[ChristianAnarchist]

Didn't see this posted.

This is a fantastic video. No, I don't mind using Regan to show how things SHOULD be. Regan was right on some things. He didn't go far enough and Rand will go much farther than Regan did. If we get the ball moving toward LIBERTY that is a great start!!

 

[DP714]