George Will Ruins the Meme that Ronald Reagan Couldn’t Win with Today’s GOP:
We keep hearing that if Ronald Reagan was running for president today he wouldn’t be able to get elected because the Republican Party is too radical. Jeb Bush was the latest, and the media ate it up. It’s a ridiculous notion and George Will ruined the meme on ABC’s This Week.
“About twenty years after a conservative leaves the scene or dies, he becomes acceptable,” to the media-left, George Will observed on Sunday’s This Week. “They say, if only people were more like Ronald Reagan and that wonderful libertarian curmudgeon Barry Goldwater.” Will recalled: “I worked for Bill Buckley, voted for Barry Goldwater and knew Ronald Reagan and no one talked about them on the left that way at the time.”
Will was responding to Jeb Bush’s media-embraced scolding of the GOP, which George Stephanopoulos helpfully displayed on screen. “Since Ronald Reagan,” Will pointed out, “the Republican Party has given its presidential nomination four times to the Bush family. Other times to Bob Dole, John McCain and Mitt Romney. Where is the extremist in that lot?”
Will bore in: “Now, Jeb Bush’s father is celebrated today for a statesmanship that consisted of breaking the promise he made to the American people of not raising taxes.”NewsBusters has the video and a partial transcript of the exchange.
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