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Reagan advisor on Tea Party Republicans 'They are really rather stupid and not very well read' (Original Post) ErikJ Mar 2015 OP
I love Bruce Bartlett n/t Roy Rolling Mar 2015 #1
I guess he hasnt heard of Norquists "Reagan Legacy Project" which has made Reagan into a RW god. ErikJ Mar 2015 #2
Very skilled propagandists indeed. PatrickforO Mar 2015 #3
They read the King James version. Or say they do anyway. Enthusiast Mar 2015 #4
 

ErikJ

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2. I guess he hasnt heard of Norquists "Reagan Legacy Project" which has made Reagan into a RW god.
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 03:49 PM
Mar 2015

The myth of Ronald Reagan was already looming in the spring of 1997 — when a highly popular President Bill Clinton was launching his second-term, pre-Monica Lewinsky, and the Republican brand seemed at low ebb. But what neoconservative activist Grover Norquist and his allies proposed that spring was virtually unheard of — an active, mapped-out, audacious campaign to spread a distorted vision of Reagan’s legacy across America.
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http://www.salon.com/2009/02/02/ronald_reagan_2/

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