While conservatives have been longing for another Reagan, there has been a countervailing force, the Corrupt Mainstream Media (CMM) egging on mushy moderates to proclaim the Reagan Era gone. And with it that old Reagan coalition is extinct. Yes, it has vanished. The debate is over. That solid coalition that guided our 40^th president to two landslide victories has splintered into herds roaming the landscape looking for that  pool of drinking water in the desert of the Bush years and the 2008 primaries. Well, at least Tom Brokaw used similar wording to this in the last week.

            We know the left has been trying to rewrite the history of the eighties since Reagan handed the presidency to Bush 41. The country club republicans never really enjoyed that era of being in the spotlight, associated with those pro-lifers that lifted the party to majorities not realized in decades. As the GOP fields a deep field of qualified candidates, three with strong executive experience, this propagandizing mix of elites and liberals are gleeful that none of the candidates quite measure up to the expectations of the conservative base of the GOP.

            It’s been said we’ll never have another Reagan. Indeed, he came at a unique time, in unique circumstances, and with a unique background. People can long for the good old days and get bogged down. But we should not let the enemy tell us that our ideology no longer applies to the current time or a different set of problems.

            Let me put this in the bluntest terms. Why should true conservatives concede the Reagan era is over, the coalition gone, when liberals will not let go of the MCGOVERN era (error)? Be honest, this democrat field in the primaries and the leadership in Congress are McGovernites through and through. In the finest tradition of George McGovern they scream “America Come Home” and leave our allies on their own to be slaughtered. Pull the funding, full speed ahead to social program spending. There’s the unrelenting class warfare in the liberals’ finest tradition. Clinton, Gore and Kerry are the icons of this era. They graduated in the sixties but never grew up.

            But think about who their hero is - a guy who carried one state in 1972, sixteen years before the end of the second Reagan term. McGovern garnered less than 39% of the popular vote. Can you say mandate, NOT? He was running against Richard Nixon, still involved in an unpopular war, and an economy that was sick by today’s standards. And by the way, two years after that landslide, Nixon was driven from office under the threat of impeachment.

            Does the CMM question why the liberals want to hang on to the era of McGovern and those sacred principles? Maybe someone in the GOP will articulate this and show them for what they are in 2008. Or maybe we’ll have to wait for someone with the vision of a Ronald Reagan.