STFU JEB

Leave Reagan behind

Party leaders go on 'listening tour' with eyes on future

While the sound of "fix baynets" is heard from behind

“ Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Saturday that it's time for the Republican Party to give up its "nostalgia" for the heyday of the Reagan era and look forward, even if it means stealing the winning strategy deployed by Democrats in the 2008 election. "You can't beat something with nothing, and the other side has something. I don't like it, but they have it, and we have to be respectful and mindful of that," Mr. Bush said. The former president's brother, often mentioned as a potential candidate in 2012, said President Obama's message of hope and change during the 2008 campaign clearly resonated with Americans. "So our ideas need to be forward looking and relevant. I felt like there was a lot of nostalgia and the good old days in the [Republican] messaging. I mean, it's great, but it doesn't draw people toward your cause," Mr. Bush said. ” I remember thinking in 1999-2000, that if we had to have another Bush in the White House, Jeb was my first choice.  Now I'd like to see at least a century separate even another attempt at a third Bush presidency.  That said, Jeb does here articulate why today's Republican party is an irrelevancy, and will so remain, IMO, until these people willing to trade principle for power are found only in the democrat party with other Arlo Sphincters. Leave Reagan behind?   That 'nostalgia' Jeb talks about is for a principled attempt at restoring government to something resembling the vision our founding fathers had when creating it.   Ronald Reagan was the embodiment of how Hollywood used to portray us, and how we used to think of ourselves.  Jeb, your brother George displayed a sense of decency, and  love of country-first that was missing, and is again now.  Too bad he missed the part about government being the problem, and not the solution.   To me, you're just as dead now as Jack Kemp (may he RIP).  Ronald Reagan is the America I once agreed to die for, and still do.  The Democrat's "something" is what I was fighting against then, and still am, damn you.