From the Corner at National Review Online, Mark E Levin has an interesting piece about Reagan and McCain. As you can tell from the headline, it shows how each man challenged His Party.
Michelle Malkin has a link to this story as well here.
It is sad that everyone is not getting the facts right about what Reagan did or did not do during his presidency. I guess that is why Mr Levin says it best at the end of his post at NRO:
But we must rewrite history if we are to make the case that McCain is no different from Reagan, Reagan is no different from his predecessors, and Reagan’s speeches weren’t all that revolutionary. And if we object to such characterizations, then the argument shifts to — well, stop making comparisons to Reagan, Reagan wasn’t perfect, the Reagan era is dead, these are different times, etc. Then, if we criticize McCain’s record we are told the tone is troubling, we’re going to help elect Hillary Clinton if we don’t unite behind McCain now (at the beginning of the primaries, no less!), the surge is the only issue that matters, etc.
Look, I do not believe that McCain is a principled conservative. I believe he is a populist hawk in the tradition of a Scoop Jackson. This isn’t a perfect comparison, of course, but nothing is ever perfect, is it? In my view, this is why the hawks will support McCain regardless of his record in virtually every other respect. Moreover, they see McCain as the only Republican who has the will or ability or whatever to fight terrorism. I don’t. But please, can we at least agree, on National Review’s website of all places, to stop dumbing down or dismissing the Reagan record. If you are going to use it, at least be accurate about it. It isn’t perfect, but it is far superior to the backhand it received earlier.
Yes, Virginia. There is no conservative running for President.
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