My column for today’s American Spectator discusses the Texas-sized hypocrisy of Ron Paul, fair-weather friend to Ronald Reagan and faux libertarian: Paul has consistently represented himself as a principled libertarian, and never tires of reminding us that he is a physician whose medical experience has taught him to be wary of government intrusion in health care. However, [...]
Ron Paul has released the following attack ad against Rick Perry, in which he depicts himself as a Reagan Republican and Perry as a Gore-supporting Democrat. Watch it and then I’ll explain how it exposes the essential hypocrisy of “Doctor No”: Did you notice how the ad shows shot after shot of the good doctor posing with Reagan [...]
In case you were wondering why the “news” media and other Democrats have been so anxious to associate Obama with Reagan, despite the intrinsic absurdity of the comparison, here’s the answer: Ahead of Presidents Day 2011, Americans are most likely to say Ronald Reagan was the nation’s greatest president. Here’s the list: [ht Doug Powers]
Since yesterday was Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday, it seemed appropriate to re-post this 1960s audio of the Gipper warning against Medicare mission creep. Here’s the money quote: One of the traditional methods of imposing statism, or socialism, on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as [...]
You may have noticed that, during the run-up to Reagan’s 100th birthday, the very media types who trashed him for decades are now trying to remake him into a RINO. The last straw for Noonan came when Andrea Mitchell made the following idiotic assertion: People are trying … Republicans in particular, obviously trying to appropriate Ronald Reagan for [...]
