Submitted by Ronald Ramo, Mar 18, 2007 16:46

I found it funny when the article mentions the Republican majority of Congress, its overlooksthat the Republicans not only failed to reform Social Security, they expanded Government spending with the Prescription Drug Plan and practically federalized the Education System with No Child Left Behind. Reagan would be spinning in his grave, these two acts alone have betrayed traditional Conservativism which belief in States' Rights and limited government. Conservatism has gone left because it now supports and believes in the Federalization of issues it supports. No longer are there efforts to gut the federal bureaucracy, but directing it to achieving the pet projects of those Republicans in Congress who try to sell thier liberalism as conservative acts.

Reagan would also be disappointed by the current state of foreign affairs. Reagan only used military force when necessary and proportional to the problem; when Quadaffi bombed Pan Am, we leveled his Palace, when the Cubans propped up a socialist government in Granada, we intervened to protect Americans, while the Soviets occupied Afganistan, the US aided Afgan resistance, when the Sandistas took over Nicaragua, the US aided Nicaraguan resistance (which led to the democratic election of a pro-American government in 1989). The policy of peace through Strength relied on improving the quality of our military and its ability to face the Soviet threat, it did not require nation building, but vigiliance. The current "right" (aka NeoCon) view on foreign policy is opposite to Reagan, it seeks to export democracy and merely uses security threats as a pretext to commit nation building much like Clinton used "ethnic cleansing" to justify interference in the Yugoslav civil wars.

But the 2008 presidential election offers several alternatives to a Rudy McRomeny Republican candidate for president. Men like Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, and Ron Paul (of which I am an ardent supporter) who are the true keepers of Ronald Reagan's vision and who should be the REAL Frontrunners for the 2008 Republican nomination.

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