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80s-00s GOP was insane in hindsight, had base cheering for 'balanced budgets'

like, i get that having a 'balanced budget' is on the list o...
Hideous Bisexual Business Firm
  12/20/20
To be fair, "It's Ryan! It's Ryan, everybody!"
odious fiercely-loyal lettuce doctorate
  10/17/22
During Reagan too tbh Our only chance was going all in be...
greedy hairraiser address sex offender
  12/20/20
yeah, i mean it starts with Reagan in earnest. that was his ...
Hideous Bisexual Business Firm
  12/20/20
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Hideous Bisexual Business Firm
  08/24/22
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spectacular corner roast beef
  10/17/22
It was all very boomery They were certain the US economy...
Sable Nudist Locus
  12/20/20
Paul Ryan, Boehner, Tom DeLay, and many more made whole fuck...
rusted police squad piazza
  12/20/20
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charismatic gas station factory reset button
  12/20/20
ljl if you think the modern GOP is any different https://...
talking slippery black woman mood
  12/20/20
the point of OP is not the candidates, it's the actual voter...
charismatic gas station factory reset button
  12/20/20
voters care about whatever the elites tell them
infuriating keepsake machete cuckoldry
  10/17/22
cr, this is why "democracy" is retarded.
puce associate
  10/17/22
This is the modern GOP too they are just even more shameless...
Exhilarant Ruby Half-breed
  12/20/20
This is something you do when you think what you have alread...
Wonderful nursing home
  12/20/20
Exactly. Worrying about “balanced budgets” is th...
electric whorehouse fat ankles
  08/24/22
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spectacular corner roast beef
  10/17/22
Reagan was also a farce btw.
heady vengeful pisswyrm cruise ship
  08/24/22
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aphrodisiac feces
  10/17/22
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Hideous Bisexual Business Firm
  10/17/22
You said "the whole 'conservative' movement post-Reagan...
heady vengeful pisswyrm cruise ship
  10/17/22
yeah, 'post-Reagan' = *with the advent of Reagan* (e.g. 'we...
Hideous Bisexual Business Firm
  10/17/22
no need for histrionics — you didn't express yourself ...
heady vengeful pisswyrm cruise ship
  10/17/22
the meaning was obvious, and was literally restated explicit...
Hideous Bisexual Business Firm
  10/17/22
It hasn't been three years.
heady vengeful pisswyrm cruise ship
  10/17/22
Reagan was 180
sapphire floppy digit ratio
  10/17/22
Good thing Democrats care.
Motley Out-of-control National Degenerate
  08/24/22
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Hideous Bisexual Business Firm
  10/17/22
there has not been a single genuinely intelligent and talent...
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  10/17/22
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Bill Laimbeer circa 1990
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Date: December 20th, 2020 10:17 AM
Author: Hideous Bisexual Business Firm

like, i get that having a 'balanced budget' is on the list of desirable things you would want to have in a perfect world, but this was actually their lead-off issue for decades.

go back and watch old GOP primaries and these white shitkicker guys in Alabama are cheering like they are at a Britney Spears concert every time Fred Thompson or someone starts talking for 10 minutes about 'deficit spending' or whatever (which, btw, they did nothing to curtail, once in power).

it's surreal. the whole 'conservative' movement post-Reagan was such a farce.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#41583482)



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Date: October 17th, 2022 11:12 PM
Author: odious fiercely-loyal lettuce doctorate

To be fair,

"It's Ryan! It's Ryan, everybody!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#45348020)



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Date: December 20th, 2020 10:18 AM
Author: greedy hairraiser address sex offender

During Reagan too tbh

Our only chance was going all in behind Pat Buchanan and we blew it (over and over again)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#41583490)



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Date: December 20th, 2020 10:19 AM
Author: Hideous Bisexual Business Firm

yeah, i mean it starts with Reagan in earnest. that was his whole schtick.

there is a Vdare columnist who describes it as -- 'Beginning in the 1980s, the GOP became a party of accounting fetishists'

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#41583494)



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Date: August 24th, 2022 2:14 PM
Author: Hideous Bisexual Business Firm



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#45063823)



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Date: October 17th, 2022 10:02 PM
Author: spectacular corner roast beef



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#45347718)



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Date: December 20th, 2020 10:21 AM
Author: Sable Nudist Locus

It was all very boomery

They were certain the US economy was just a big version of their “checkbook” they “balanced” with a pen and calculator every month (and were convinced that little ritual was the root cause of their financial prosperity)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#41583510)



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Date: December 20th, 2020 10:21 AM
Author: rusted police squad piazza

Paul Ryan, Boehner, Tom DeLay, and many more made whole fucking careers out of this schtick and ended up as well heeled lobbyists so who laughs last right?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#41583515)



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Date: December 20th, 2020 12:17 PM
Author: charismatic gas station factory reset button



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#41584199)



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Date: December 20th, 2020 1:30 PM
Author: talking slippery black woman mood

ljl if you think the modern GOP is any different

https://www.flgov.com/2020/06/29/governor-ron-desantis-signs-the-fiscal-year-2020-2021-budget/

https://www.ontheissues.org/Economic/Josh_Hawley_Budget_+_Economy.htm

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z6N1gk_mfvs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#41584561)



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Date: December 20th, 2020 1:40 PM
Author: charismatic gas station factory reset button

the point of OP is not the candidates, it's the actual voters on the ground. Do they still care about "balanced budgets"? not like they did in 1994 or whatever. they certainly don't get fired up about it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#41584598)



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Date: October 17th, 2022 10:07 PM
Author: infuriating keepsake machete cuckoldry

voters care about whatever the elites tell them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#45347753)



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Date: October 17th, 2022 11:10 PM
Author: puce associate

cr, this is why "democracy" is retarded.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#45348015)



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Date: December 20th, 2020 1:39 PM
Author: Exhilarant Ruby Half-breed

This is the modern GOP too they are just even more shameless and hypocritical than before

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#41584594)



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Date: December 20th, 2020 1:44 PM
Author: Wonderful nursing home

This is something you do when you think what you have already is pretty much perfect and you want to hand it down to your grandchildren.

Trump's GOP is pretty much the panicked crew realizing the ship is sinking. You just try to plug the holes you can with as many rags and fingers you have available.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#41584618)



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Date: August 24th, 2022 9:50 AM
Author: electric whorehouse fat ankles

Exactly. Worrying about “balanced budgets” is the luxury of those who think the current system is flawed but salvageable. We’re way past that now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#45062470)



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Date: October 17th, 2022 10:04 PM
Author: spectacular corner roast beef



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#45347735)



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Date: August 24th, 2022 9:48 AM
Author: heady vengeful pisswyrm cruise ship

Reagan was also a farce btw.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#45062461)



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Date: October 17th, 2022 10:03 PM
Author: aphrodisiac feces



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#45347732)



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Date: October 17th, 2022 10:04 PM
Author: Hideous Bisexual Business Firm



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#45347738)



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Date: October 17th, 2022 10:06 PM
Author: heady vengeful pisswyrm cruise ship

You said "the whole 'conservative' movement post-Reagan was such a farce."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#45347749)



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Date: October 17th, 2022 10:10 PM
Author: Hideous Bisexual Business Firm

yeah, 'post-Reagan' = *with the advent of Reagan*

(e.g. 'we are living in a post-covid world' means we are living in a world which was changed by the arrival of covid, etc.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#45347769)



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Date: October 17th, 2022 10:12 PM
Author: heady vengeful pisswyrm cruise ship

no need for histrionics — you didn't express yourself clearly and we are not mind readers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#45347780)



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Date: October 17th, 2022 10:18 PM
Author: Hideous Bisexual Business Firm

the meaning was obvious, and was literally restated explicitly, seconds later, in the subpost directly below OP.

but 3 years later, this is still autistic catnip, as though OP could have **POSSIBLY** been arguing the point that Ronald FUCKING Reagan was unconcerned w/ 'balanced budgets'!!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#45347797)



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Date: October 17th, 2022 10:22 PM
Author: heady vengeful pisswyrm cruise ship

It hasn't been three years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#45347813)



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Date: October 17th, 2022 10:18 PM
Author: sapphire floppy digit ratio

Reagan was 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#45347796)



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Date: August 24th, 2022 9:52 AM
Author: Motley Out-of-control National Degenerate

Good thing Democrats care.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#45062476)



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Date: October 17th, 2022 9:59 PM
Author: Hideous Bisexual Business Firm



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#45347698)



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Date: October 17th, 2022 10:04 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle orange trailer park

there has not been a single genuinely intelligent and talented politician in "the GOP" in like 50 years

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#45347742)



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Date: February 4th, 2025 6:22 PM
Author: Bill Laimbeer circa 1990



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4716882&forum_id=2#48622517)