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To: TimF who wrote (90327)10/16/2008 1:24:50 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 542957
 
Tim,

You're just digging a bigger hole for yourself. David Brooks defending Ronald Reagan is not going to persuade folk like me. If you could find a reasonable nonpartisan source or even a Dem partisan source that takes your position, then I might take a serious look.

LBJ said it best when he signed the voting rights bill (I think), one of those at any rate, at which he said the Dems have given up on the south after that. Prescient, as they say.

And Nixon ran with that ball; campaigned with that in mind; I don't think Gerald Ford did; but certainly Reagan and GHW Bush and GW Bush did.



To: TimF who wrote (90327)10/16/2008 4:26:55 PM
From: Cogito  Respond to of 542957
 
Tim -

I had never had an opinion on the Philadelphia speech, or whether Reagan was trying to send a message to Southern racists. Having read David Brooks' column, however, I now believe he was only being slightly tone deaf. Not that big a deal at all.

I hate it when so much is made of individual phrases or sentences within a speech. I hate it when either side does it.

- Allen


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