Politics

Fred the Fake

Christopher Manion / LewRockwell.com
"Thompson Claims Reagan Mantle" – news item. First, a little history. In 1974, as we all know, Ronald Reagan was a very close friend and political ally of Vice President Gerald Ford. Reagan, who had tried and failed to become Dick Nixon’s running mate in 1968, was doing everything he could to stay close to the Republican money machine that Nixon had created, so he could launch his own future campaign from the same well-oiled plutocrat springboard. He artfully managed to keep on good terms with both the "Rockefeller Republicans" of the left and the Goldwater types, whom he disdained, with thinly-veiled contempt, but whose indispensable and indisputable grass-roots strength eclipsed that of the New York Limousine Liberals. But the limousine Liberals had the money. And Reagan needed that, too. Full story...

Posted by Editor at September 11, 2007 05:42 AM