Justice Dakota
03/11/2012
As has been documented in previous blog posts, the contemporary "Real Conservative Movement (RCM)," which has been promoted by national talk-show hosts and conservative pundits, have worked tirelessly to construct a mythical "Real Conservative (RC)" Republican candidate who can defeat President Obama and return America to the era of "Reagan Conservatism."
The RCM has loudly proclaimed Romney as anti-RCM. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and many other "Real Conservative Candidate" myth-makers love to disseminate propaganda designed to convince the American public that President Ronald Reagan was a real conservative -- and that Governor Romney is a moderate-to-liberal Yankee son-of-a-bitch with too much education and brains. 
After all, Romney does not cut wood on a high-country ranch or drive a truck through the tumble-weeds of a Texas Dude Ranch.
Without really knowing, I suspect Romney reads and studies a lot. He probably has a nice library filled with a lot of books (no cigars or alcohol). And, the RCM may hate him for such habits.
I imagine the RCM is really pissed off because it appears that Romney does not ride horses (not yet, anyhow). And, Romney seems as if he does not like killing animals with a gun as much as the RCM would prefer.
Does the RCM believe Big Valley, the TV show, was a documentary? Do they want their Presidential nominee to role-play a character from the Bonanza TV show? Do they realize that President Ronald W. Reagan, in 2012, would not fit their hyped-up "Real Conservative" template?
If the RCM knows they are myth-creators, then they disrespect us all and don't deserve Republican support -- because they are nothing more than propagandists. If they believe their own myths -- well, then, Wow! Whatever happened to reading and reality?
Reagan, who is objectively considered one of our greatest Presidents, would fail the RCM "Social Conservative" test. He was married twice, estranged from certain family members, earned his money, and achieved stardom in Hollywood, had flip-flopped his party identification, ballooned our federal deficit and national debt, and was in the White House while the First Lady non-apologetically turned to astrology for guidance and comfort.
And, with respect to national deficits and debts, did Reagan "kick the can" down the road?
By Alex Seitz-Wald on Feb 5, 2011:
Reagan nearly tripled the federal budget deficit. During the Reagan years, the debt increased to nearly $3 trillion, “roughly three times as much as the first 80 years of the century had done altogether.”
Reagan enacted a major tax cut his first year in office and government revenue dropped off precipitously. Despite the conservative myth that tax cuts somehow increase revenue, the government went deeper into debt and Reagan had to raise taxes just a year after he enacted his tax cut. Despite ten more tax hikes on everything from gasoline to corporate income, Reagan was never able to get the deficit under control.
As governor of California, Reagan reportedly “signed into law the largest tax increase in the history of any state up till then” and state spending nearly doubled. As former GOP Senator Alan Simpson, who called Reagan “a dear friend,” told NPR, “Ronald Reagan raised taxes 11 times in his administration — I was there.” “Reagan was never afraid to raise taxes,” said historian Douglas Brinkley, who edited Reagan’s memoir. Reagan the anti-tax zealot is “false mythology,” Brinkley said.
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So, as a Reaganite, I believe the RCM has disrespected Conservative Republicans. They have given us a choice of perpetuating mythology versus defending a Real, Rational, Conservative (Reagan).
Reagan had to govern! He had to compromise! Romney will have to govern. And good government can not be mythologized. Reality matters.
God Bless President Ronald Reagan! A Rational, Real, Conservative Republican!! May the Spirit of Reagan's rationality be with the next Republican Nominee (Romney). Maybe the RCM can forgive Romney for not riding horses, driving trucks along dirt roads, and shooting animals. I bet he likes to ski!? What's the big deal?
By the way, for the contemporary RCM: Ben Cartwright was not real. Cartwright was a character played by the actor Lorne Green in the Bonanza TV series.
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