Republicans to Mitt Romney: You're no Ronald Reagan

[DemocratSinceBirth]

A handsome former governor faced a vulnerable incumbent, a weak economy and a crisis in the Middle East.
The description is of the 1980 presidential race between President Jimmy Carter and challenger Ronald Reagan. And it’s become the Mitt Romney campaign’s go-to analogy as he struggles in the polls in the final stretch of the campaign, insisting to donors and strategists that the election is still winnable in the final weeks.


But 2012 is not 1980, when Carter lost to Reagan in a landslide.
The 32-year-old comparison just doesn’t hold up well under scrutiny: the electoral map for Reagan was friendlier, the 1980 economy feebler, the incumbent more vulnerable, the crisis overseas worse and Reagan’s campaign skills were simply better.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81566.html#ixzz27Pm1Jxef

[sadbear]

1. Hell, Ronald Reagan was no Ronald Reagan.

They'd throw old Ronnie under the bus today, too.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. LOL

“Reagan was a non-establishment figure who came from a lower middle class background,” he said. “He had been a Democrat. He had great empathy for working people because he had been one. Mitt Romney, the only working people he knows are his servants.”
“I knew Ronald Reagan,” Stone added. “Ronald Reagan was a friend of mine. And Mitt Romney is no Ronald Reagan.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81566_Page3.html#ixzz27PoZzYaT

[gopiscrap]

3. No kidding!

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Everytime I see Ron Reagan on TV

and he's on with someone who invokes FantasyReagan™, he just starts chuckling and shaking his head and then they will usually stop mid-utterence and go silent the minute he protests.

[gopiscrap]

6. sadbear, I agree Reagan would be toast in today's gop

[eyeofnewt]

4. Ineffective in liberal world

Saying that Mitt is not Ronnie is only an insult in "their" world.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. But ... but ... yesterday he said "shining city on the hill"'

That's the most powerful magical incantation in the Republican Book Of The Dead. Sean Hannity always involuntarily orgasms when he hears those words.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. That Clown Messed It Up

Romney($) said shining sea instead of city. I link John Winthrop said it first.

[ananda]

8. Lol.

Ermm... fyi... Ronald Reagan was no Ronald Reagan.

[JHB]

10. Waitn' for the debates, watchn' for Mitt to try the "There you go again" line...

...he wants to use it bad, and has no idea why he'll be beaten silly with it if he tries.

[reformist2]

11. The GOP will howl, but this year is more like 1984 (parties reversed) than they could ever admit.

Romney = Mondale.