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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLil' Ricky SweaterVest stresses the importance "standing firmly on the three-legged Reagan stool."
FAIRFIELD, Calif. Republican leaders and voters, frustrated by their party's prolonged presidential contest, are increasingly coalescing behind front-runner Mitt Romney. Yet Rick Santorum on Thursday urged conservatives not to forsake their principles under pressure.
He did so by conjuring the memory of Ronald Reagan, still the conservative icon, at an oddly symbolic place: the jelly bean factory that created the former president's favorite treats.
"Let them know, conservatives all across this country have not given up the fight, we're not going to concede to the moderate establishment who wants to convince everybody that it's over, it's time to go away," Santorum told about 200 supporters at the Jelly Belly factory in a town halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento.
He alluded to Reagan's favored policy trio of free enterprise, a strong defense and conservative social policies, saying, "We as conservatives need to stand up and fight for a candidate who can win this general election, who stands solidly, firmly on the 'three-legged stool' that brought the Reagan coalition together."
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/29/nation/la-na-santorum-jellybeans-20120330
He did so by conjuring the memory of Ronald Reagan, still the conservative icon, at an oddly symbolic place: the jelly bean factory that created the former president's favorite treats.
"Let them know, conservatives all across this country have not given up the fight, we're not going to concede to the moderate establishment who wants to convince everybody that it's over, it's time to go away," Santorum told about 200 supporters at the Jelly Belly factory in a town halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento.
He alluded to Reagan's favored policy trio of free enterprise, a strong defense and conservative social policies, saying, "We as conservatives need to stand up and fight for a candidate who can win this general election, who stands solidly, firmly on the 'three-legged stool' that brought the Reagan coalition together."
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/29/nation/la-na-santorum-jellybeans-20120330
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Lil' Ricky SweaterVest stresses the importance "standing firmly on the three-legged Reagan stool." (Original Post)
Amerigo Vespucci
Mar 2012
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MADem
(135,425 posts)1. "Reagan stool," eh?
Are we talking about a somewhat loose and stinky stool?
Because anything Reagan produced would be wobbly and well...shitty.
Webster Green
(13,905 posts)2. WTF is he doing in CA?
We ain't voting for him.
justgamma
(3,665 posts)3. Reagan's 3 legs
Raising taxes, amnesty for illegals, and a record breaking national debt? Those three?