Sentences with phrase «reagan republican»

I'm a Reagan Republican and my best friend for 30 years happens to be a liberal, and even though I don't agree with him on many political things he often points out things that help me understand what an issue is about that I would never have thought of myself, or would have heard from my conservative friends.

Foley pitched himself to party members as an independent - minded Reagan Republican who will bring change to Hartford.

He's not a Reagan Republican.

Malpass, a former official in the State and Treasury departments, said he had been «a Reagan Republican since I worked for him in the 1980s.»

He identifies himself as a «Reagan Republican».

At 8 p.m., NYC GOP mayoral candidate Paul Massey makes remarks, meets and greets voters, Ronald Reagan Republican Club special meeting, Lenny's Clam Bar, 161 - 30 Cross Bay Blvd., Howard Beach, Queens.

I spoke with Massey Tuesday night, following a meeting of the Ronald Reagan Republican Club in Howard Beach.

The Republican Party is an ideological mix of social and fiscal conservatives once held together by eloquent intellectuals such as Bill Buckley; gone are the days of the Eisenhower Republican; here to stay is the Reagan Republican jumble, with a few vestiges of traditional conservatism tacked on for good measure.

It also paints Malpass as a true Reagan Republican.

To be sure, Brown is no Reagan Republican.

He was appointed in 2009 - a year after the «Kennedy Democrat and Reagan Republican,» as he'd described himself in his letter to Clinton, spearheaded Obama's outreach to Catholic voters in the 2008 presidential campaign.

Obama channeled his inner «Reagan Republican» and Bin Laden, Anwar al - Awlaki and pretty much anyone that was sitting on the blanket with Bin Laden... is dead.

«The Opposition» is the major first comedy show with a baked - in acknowledgement of the shift in the conservative - media landscape away from the dogmatic, small - government Reagan Republican.

the rature started last night in North Idaho... the Reagan Republicans were voted in on our school board... stay away from Idaho unless your Reaganites, Mormonites or termites...

And of course there are plenty of conservatives in the LGBT community even Ronald Reagan Republicans, but when the Professor evaluates the polling data he concludes the dominant values seek a community that nurtures its citizens.

Not exact matches

In 1986, President Ronald Reagan nominated Sessions to become a federal judge, but the Republican - controlled Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the nomination after it was discovered that Sessions repeatedly made racist comments.

«If you look at the history of climate change negotiations, actually it was initiated by the IPCC with the support of the Republicans during the Reagan and senior Bush administration during the late 1980s,» Liu said according to a Bloomberg story published Wednesday.

Senator Charles Schumer, i n what Republicans saw as tax - po licy blasphemy, declared President Ronald Reagan's 1986 tax reform «obsolete» as a model fo r ov erhauling tax laws.

It was Ronald Reagan who said «mistakes were made» when referring to the Iran - Contra scandal in his 1987 State of the Union address, but Democrats and Republicans alike, as well as some CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, have used this verbal dodge to escape responsibility.

Conservative pundits steeped in what George H. W. Bush, running against Reagan for the Republican presidential nomination in 1980, famously called «voodoo economics,» have retorted that Buffett and his limousine - liberal ilk should instead voluntarily pay more to the federal treasury, pointing out the existence of such a provision in the tax code.

The last major tax restructuring, Republican former President Ronald Reagan's 1986 overhaul, received significant input and support from Democrats.

President Donald Trump and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill believe that Bush - and Reagan - type tax relief would give the current economy a boost.

The president referenced a survey that said that 37 percent of Republican voters approved of Putin, adding that «Ronald Reagan would roll over in his grave.»

Since Ronald Reagan, the Republican Party has partnered with Democrats in exporting American values.

In successfully seeking the 1980 Republican nomination for President, Ronald Reagan embraced the Laffer Curve theory that tax cuts would increase tax revenues.

Bannon's language goes beyond Reagan - era Republican talking points about cutting regulations and lowering taxes.

The market was e.g. just as strong under Democratic president Bill Clinton as it was under Republican president Ronald Reagan.

David Stockman is a former U.S. politician and businessman, serving as a Republican U.S. Representative from the state of Michigan 1977 — 1981 and as the director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan 1981 — 1985.

But to put it mildly, Republicans don't want to hear any of this, and they tend to be thoroughly unhappy when anyone compares Reagan unfavorably to Carter, even when the analysis is true.

«It's like when we attempted to compensate for entrance to the Republican National Convention using Ronald Reagan's dry skeleton bones»

The last one was passed in 1986 under Republican President Ronald Reagan.

Encouraging news: This is the first actual victory for a Republican candidate in a debate since Reagan over Carter in 1980.

Ronald Reagan remains the most intriguing of the Republicans.

That earlier effort culminated in an August 1980 religious - political rally with Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan that helped Reagan mobilize conservative pastors for his victory.

Since Southern Baptists abandoned native son Jimmy Carter and joined the Reagan revolution in 1980, they have become an increasingly important part of those values - voters who have made the Republicans, at least for now, the majority party in American political life.

They were well - paid to make things this way, as were many Democrats, but the Republican «war on regulations» has been going on since before Reagan, who gave us several financial crisis himself.

Spencer and Roberts had worked for the presidential candidacy of liberal Republican Nelson Rockefeller in the previous election cycle, but that didn't stop Reagan from using their talents for his own purposes.

But the fiscal conservatives and the strong foreign - policy advocates don't have that power either, and without at least a good percentage of social conservatives to form the third leg of the Reagan coalition, no candidate has much chance of winning the Republican nomination.

Certainly Reagan and Bush would never have been President, the Republican Party would be on the Department of Justice list of suspect organizations, and Ralph Reed would be in jail.

By the way, I voted for Reagan, but I can tell you one thing; todays» Republican party is NOTHING like it was when Reagan was around... today's Republican party is based on lies, slander and outright propaganda... facts are a thing of the past to Republicans.

«The «right to abortion,» with its theme of sexual liberation,» as Hadley Arkes puts it, «has become the central peg on which the interests of the Democratic party have been arranged,» just as, «since the days of Ronald Reagan, the Republican party has become... the pro-life party in our politics.»

JW, Ronald Reagan couldn't be the republican nominee today.

New presidents may appoint new justices, but that project also is long and uncertain: even after 12 years with President Reagan and the first President Bush, both committed to overturning Roe v. Wade, the key votes to reaffirm Roe in 1992 came from the Republican appointees Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy and David Souter.

One used to hear that a lot during the Reagan years, before Republicans became big - government enthusiasts.

, I too am an Independent, The Republicans want to go back to President Reagan's trickle down Chicago School economics.

While Jack was staunchly Republican (he referred to success as «Reagan - ing» and Obama as «your President»), and dizzyingly wealthy, he still managed to speak into the lives of his generally progressive, often slovenly, always financially strapped crew.

But you point to a different set of people, Ross, that should have objected to the war at the beginning and are now declaring that they are empowered by the Republicans» defeat on Tuesday: old conservatives of the Reagan and Bush - I eras, such as Brent Scowcroft or George Will.

It is no longer enough for Republicans to mobilize people who have a preexisting affinity for the Republican party and / or fond memories of Reagan.

the republicans brought this into play when reagan sold his sole, or what he had, just to get elected.

Ronald Reagan, a conservative republican signed a law banning assault weapons.