Is the old Reagan Republican coalition dead as a door nail with the current Presidential candidates?

Question

Thompson has made a large thud; Guilani and Romney look like governing liberals that talk the talk, now, of being conservative, but, never walked the walk of "conservatism" while governing.

More generally tax cuts have proven to stimulate the economy all right, but, in turn, balloon the deficit to dizzying heights, our troops are bogged down in two different nations with no end in sight, and even the American Mediacal Association are recognizing that our health system has serious fractures...

Our we looking at a new era in Politics?

Answer 1

Well in truth there are none left from the Reagan administration young enough to hold anything but an advisers position.

The debt is not the fault of the tax cuts it is the result too much spending and little or no change in our economy even though we are at war on two fronts. Our citizens are not shifting to war manufacture and there is no draft.

You can hardly complain of the governments incompetence and in the same breath state that you want them to enter into the medical care business and hold any credibility.

You speak of debt and want to add trillions to it with a single payer medical program. If we do this we would need taxes of thirty percent on those already in poverty, forty percent on those above the poverty mark and upwards of sixty on the rich. This would kill the economy and unemployment would soar as business after business closes.



Reagan's spending bought us the fall of the Soviet Union. Bush's will buy us the death of the Islamic radical and the beginning of social reforms in the Mid-East.

Answer 2

"Reagan Republicans" spent like "Neocons" or "Conservatives?"

Im not sure if you noticed, but Reagan got more popular after death, than during his life. Some would call him the beginning of the neocons.

Dont get me wrong, Reagan did some great things, but many were off base of Conservative & Constitutional government duties.

Yes, all the current neocons are clones of eachother with slightly different wording. They are not too far from Hillary & Obama. All look down on the Constitution, and think governemt should NOT be limited. And when government is not limited, expect it to do nothing but GROW!

Answer 3

I think the Republicans are really struggling to find a new direction after 8 years of George Bush. Reagan's presidency was their last era of glory. The reality is that it's not 1980 anymore. The country is changing in many ways and they are going to have to find a platform that is going to resonate beyond old white guys who belong to country clubs. They can't continue to just be against everything. They have to offer up some real solutions to the problems that haven't been addressed all these years. Long term, the party is going to become irrelevant if they don't become more inclusive.

Answer 4

Your reasoning, grammar and spelling are faulty. Deficits are caused by too much spending. The US has won the ground war in Iraq. NATO forces have contained the enemy in Afghanistan.
The only problems with health care are government induced. Way too much regulation. Someone has to pay to meet those regulations.
None of the Republicans running for president are truly conservative. There was never anything called a Reagan coalition.