Who'll be the next Reagan? (Fox News report on CPAC)

[underpants]

http://www.foxnews.com/

Conservatives Seek Next Ronald Reagan
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/27/conservatives-seek-ronald-reagan/

WASHINGTON -- Sarah Palin ... Bobby Jindal ... Michael Steele ... Newt Gingrich ... These are the names American conservatives are talking about to run for president in 2012. But does any of them have what it takes to be the leader of a conservative resurgence in the Republican party?

"Is there a Ronald Reagan figure? No. But it's really too early," said Larry Hart, director of government relations for the American Conservative Union, which sponsors the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington

Noticeably gone is the image of George W. Bush, who was the standard-bearer of the Republican Party and CPAC for almost a decade, but who has left a wide leadership gap after presiding over the biggest GOP electoral losses in recent times.

A booth promoting the Draft Sarah Committee 2012 exclaimed the many reasons why the Alaska governor and former Republican vice presidential candidate could lead the movement back to power in Washington.

"Values, executive ability and leadership -- they all go together. She's exciting. She attracts people. She's more than a political candidate," said Paul Streitz, chairman of the draft movement, which hopes to establish a grassroots network for Palin across the country "if she chooses to run."

There is never a lack of star power at the CPAC. On Friday, ballroom speakers blasted the rock ballad "Eye of the Tiger" as former House Speaker Gingrich slowly made his way to podium for his midday speech amid a groping throng of young fans.

"The conservative movement needs no leader," insisted Robert Romano, editor for Americans for Limited Government. He said this year's CPAC was more about ideas, unfettered by loyalty to one leader, one candidate. "For the Republican Party, elected officials, potential candidates, this is a time for reflection," he said.

Indeed, CPAC this year seemed to be less about the cult of personality -- fewer booths hawking buttons, T-shirts and bumper stickers -- and more about exploring new ways to get back to basics. Even Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, a libertarian who was widely rejected by CPAC attendees during the presidential campaign last year, seemed to be enjoying a warmer reception this time around.

[AllentownJake]

1. How about asking who will be your next good leader instead of the next "Reagan"

Barack Obama isn't our next JFK or our Reagan or the new FDR.

He's fucking Barack Obama.

[Island Blue]

2. Palin, Jindal & Steele are the best they can come up with?

:rofl:

[underpants]

7. Chris Rock got it wrong

Rock said that "George Bush f*#%ed up so bad, he made it hard for a WHITE GUY to get elected President"

Bush f*#%ed up so bad, he made it hard for a white guy to get THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION :rofl::scared:

[Botany]

3. Cutting edge music

"Eye of the Tiger"

:rofl:

"Eye of the Tiger" was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for six weeks in the summer of 1982. wiki

[HillbillyBob]

4. Wasn't one enough. In my opionon one was 3 too many!

edited to add
Bush left a wide empty space in leadership when he was visible.

[ThomWV]

5. Who knows? Name some dim-whitted 2nd-rate actors who have double crossed their union

Those would seem to be the credentials needed just for starters.

[HillbillyBob]

6. Dennis Miller? Rash Limp?

nt

[ThomWV]

10. Dennis Miller - - there you have it!

[acmavm]

8. Or: who will be the next senile, mean-spirited, ignorant,, bigoted, took-

second-billing-to-a-Chimp jerk who looks like Prune Face impersonator?

[Warpy]

9. Sorry, fellas, but he is in diapers

and you will have to search far and wide for a malleable human being with an actor's voice and delivery who you can train as a slick TV salesman for a lifetime, marry off to a right winger, and generally lead around by the nose until and after you put him up to run for president.

It's going to take at least that long for the stench of your past 40 years of conservative bungling and outright theft to dissipate enough for people who don't remember you very well to buy snake oil economics from your next Reagan.

However, keep looking for Ronnie II now. Be our guests. Just don't expect any of them to get elected pushing that tired old horseshit that has us staring down at another Depression.

[Vogon_Glory]

11. From your keyboard to God's monitor, Amen! n/t

[mitchum]

12. I hope all of them

I'm just saying

[madrchsod]

13. newt is the only one that is intelligent enough to actually run against obama

but the message is the same old thing that no one wants to hear anymore

[Historic NY]

14. Looks like Moe, Larry, Curly & Shemp..

[lib2DaBone]

15. It wil be Sarah Palin .. they will play the Abortion Card For all its worth...

..energize the low information Fundies.. play the race card and divide the country as much as possible. There you have the Republican plan.

They will achieve their plan because they control the media and the DEMS are afraid to stand up to them.

[underpants]

16. I agree about abortion

it won't work. Most people (the middle especially) will think "Abortion? THAT is what they are concerned about?"

[brettdale]

17. It will be Palin and Jope the Plumber

They will be out there, promoting themselves as the common man.

[steelmania75]

18. Palin's a bimbo, Jindal is Kenneth the Page, and Steele is trying to be like Obama

Nope, don't see any Reagans...who would want to be him anyway? All he did was raise the national debt by trillions of dollars, and take all the credit for the Soviet Union breaking down(when it was Gorbachev who broke it down)

[Baikonour]

19. "The conservative movement needs no leader."

Good luck with that.

[bridgit]

20. Contrary to the GOP/RW's belief in him it ain't going to be Joe The Skinhead

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R-l1iejogZw/SQ_YwvTU3_I/AAAAAAAABQ8/PFNUD834C5E/s400/Joe+Wurzelbacher.jpg

[Kievan Rus]

21. CPAC is always useful for a good laugh or two