Finding Reagan
NRO - Who Is Team Captain?
The Republican field is strong. By Charles Krauthammer
Major grumbling among conservatives about the Republican field. So many candidates, so many flaws. Rudy Giuliani, abortion apostate. Mitt Romney, flip-flopper. John McCain, Mr. Amnesty. Fred Thompson, lazy boy. Where is the paragon? Where is Ronald Reagan?
Well, what about Reagan? This president, renowned for his naps, granted amnesty to three million illegal immigrants in the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli bill. As governor of California, he signed the most liberal abortion legalization bill in America, then flip-flopped and became an abortion opponent. What did he do about it as president? Gave us Sandra Day O’Connor and Anthony Kennedy, the two swing votes that upheld and enshrined Roe v. Wade for the last quarter century.
Ahem
(And why do we love him? Because he won the war that happened to be on at the time.)
October 28th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Romney flipped, but he did not flip-flop. The later would imply that he went back to his original position. I tried to explain that to someone once. You remember in Last Action Hero how the hit-man tried to correct the syndicate boss (Anthony Quinn) about how doing “a complete 360″ would have one facing back in the original position? It was like that.
In any case, Rudy will be the Captain.