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Originally Posted by sgtdmski WOW, one person who was a neoconservative has come out and said that it has failed so it should be scrapped as a philosophy. Lets see, Reagan, Nighthorse, Thurmond, Sinatra, and John Wayne were are democrats who said that the party left them.....they complained that liberalism was failing. Should we scrap it too??? I have provided 5 names to your 1. Obviously modern liberalism has failed and has been failing since the 1960's, yet 45 plus years later it is still around.....time to add it to the trashcan as well.
dmk | The classic study of Reagan Democrats is probably due to the work of Stanley Greenberg. Greenberg analyzed white ethnic voters (largely unionized auto workers) in suburban Macomb County, Michigan, just north of Detroit. The county voted 63 percent for Kennedy in 1960 and 66 percent for Reagan in 1984. He concluded that Reagan Democrats no longer saw Democrats as champions of their middle class aspirations, but instead saw it as being a party working primarily for the benefit of others, especially African Americans and the very poor. In addition, Reagan Democrats were very pleased with the Reagan economic boom following the "malaise" of the Carter Administration, and agreed with Reagan's strong stance on national security issues. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_Democrat
Nighthorse http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts...?index=C000077
Thurmond
James Strom Thurmond (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to April 1956 and November 1956 to 1964 as a Democrat and from 1964 to 2003 as a Republican. He served as Senator through his 90s, and left office at age 100, as the longest-serving senator ever.
Sinatra http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_po...nk_Sinatra.php
Wayne (military movie hero)  http://www.jwplace.com/military.html
They fit the ranks racist and chicken hawks! http://www.toostupidtobepresident.co...ickenhawks.htm
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