I just read Specter’s announcement, and am delighted to hear that he laments the fact that Republicans have abandoned the Reaganesque principles of 1980. He’s not leaving the Republican Party; the Republican Party left him: “Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent, the Republican Party has moved far to the right.”
Conservatives should be excited by this move. His switch to the Democrats means the possible revivial of conservative, Reagan-style Democrats. The 1980 Republican Platform was thoroughly conservative: it called for across-the-board tax cuts, a balanced budget, welfare reform, greater protection for private property, a constitutional amendment to restore legal protection to the unborn, an end to federal regulation of education, unequivocal opposition to socialized medicine, support for greater deregulation of health care, and laws promoting the “traditional family.”
I am delighted that Specter will be running on this platform. I urge my fellow conservatives to vote for a candidate of any party embracing such a platform.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showplatforms.php?platindex=R1980
Viva la revolution Reagan! Viva Specter!
[This work of satire has been restored. – NS]
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Neil Stevens
This is pretty much the most idiotic thing I've read all day
Jeff Emanuel (Diary) Tuesday, April 28th at 1:36PM EST (link)Even moreso than the spam email I got this morning that said “ViaGar@ chEEp SXOB#673b$$.”
JE
No, thanks.
Dan McLaughlin (Diary) Tuesday, April 28th at 1:42PM EST (link)This is about as good an idea as performing your own vasectomy.
We will get Reagan Democrats one way only: by being successful enough at beating the Democrats that they have to copy us.
“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill
SATIRE, SATIRE, SATIRE!!!
A_Texan (Diary) Tuesday, April 28th at 2:24PM EST (link)Sorry if it wasn’t obvious.
Barack Obama: The most inexperienced, far-left candidate the Democratic Party has ever dared to nominate to be our President.
If in doubt, there are special tags you can use at the end
civil truth (Diary) Tuesday, April 28th at 2:33PM EST (link)for instance, [/snark] or [/satire]
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
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I figured as much...no Texan could be that crazy...
AceInTX (Diary) Tuesday, April 28th at 3:56PM EST (link)I did think for a second you had lost your mind….but only for a second!
A bit more elaboration
A_Texan (Diary) Tuesday, April 28th at 2:30PM EST (link)I am nauseated by the number of times people speak of some good old days when the Republican Party was the “moderate” party–and even invoking the memory of Ronaldus Magnus.
I would be delighted to see the Republican Party and all its candidates to run on the 1980 platform (on a slightly modified to apply to contemporary probs).
Specter never did, and in fact, it is HE who has moved left and has been (in a very small way) responsible for our drift.
Barack Obama: The most inexperienced, far-left candidate the Democratic Party has ever dared to nominate to be our President.
Here's Specter in 1980
A_Texan (Diary) Tuesday, April 28th at 2:40PM EST (link)Specter ran on a fiscal and national-security conservative platform. I don’t know what, if anything, he said about abortion then.
The candidates differ little on the issues. Both promise to back measures that would revive Pennsylvania’s coal and steel industries. Both have endorsed a mixture of tax cuts and “supply side” incentives to improve the national economy. Both back the MX mobile missile system; Specter charges that [Democrat Peter] Flaherty is “soft on national defense” because he opposes the defunct B-l bomber and neutron bomber programs, but Flaherty counters that he supports the cruise missile and Trident submarine programs.
Barack Obama: The most inexperienced, far-left candidate the Democratic Party has ever dared to nominate to be our President.