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Matt Collins
02-23-2010, 10:59 PM
http://race42008.com/2010/02/22/what-do-ryan-sorba-and-nelson-rockefeller-have-in-common/


I remember reading an article a few years ago where an old-line Republican activist described what he witnessed at the Reagan Revolution in 1976 and 1980. According to the activist, he knew something was up when the folks who usually showed up to vote in the Democratic primary in his precinct — blue collar types, evangelicals, middle class Catholics, etc. — showed up in droves to the Republican primary, presumably to vote for Ronald Reagan. This naturally made the Rockefeller Republicans who thought they owned the Republican Party quite uncomfortable. After all, if this riff raff started showing up regularly to vote in GOP primaries and became active in local Republican politics, they would change the Republican Party. And that’s exactly what happened, as Americans who were once considered moderate Democrats actually moved the GOP to the right, as they were eons more conservative than the old-line Republicans on issues like taxes, the Soviet Union, and abortion

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johngr
02-24-2010, 03:37 AM
How they're different: the record matches the record.

Matt Collins
02-24-2010, 11:27 AM
How they're different: the record matches the record.
Exactly. Listing Ronald Reagan's negative actions in front of Republicans makes them really squirm. ;)

rp08orbust
02-24-2010, 11:29 AM
How they're different: the record matches the rhetoric.

Corrected for you.