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...Giuliani Professed "Yankee Fan in Chief" Rudy Giuliani said on Oct. 23 he'd root for his team's bitter rivals from Boston--a town suspiciously close to key primary state New Hampshire. Coincidence? [ ] Romney Trying hard to sell him-self as the Gipper Redux, Mitt Romney released an economic plan that would institute a "Reagan Zone of Economic Freedom...
Mitt Romney won the first debate because he does the most convincing Reagan impression of the bunch. But it's a matter of style more than substance. The Gipper was always thick with conviction; Romney has positions, not convictions. He never says anything striking or memorable. And in the second debate, he did something Reagan never would have done: he attacked McCain's bipartisan campaign-finance reform and immigration bills, McCain-Feingold and McCain-Kennedy. McCain stood firm. He said the money in politics "has corrupted our own party." And he stood firm on the war in Iraq, as expected...
...Gipper would probably have had little patience for all the fretting his party is doing over its brand. But he also understood, because he embodied the idea, that progress comes from going up against the status quo. To become "creators of the future," as he called his compatriots, he might have suggested that they look back to their past...
...stop in Hammonton, N.J., Reagan spoke about “America’s future,” a future that “rests in the message of hop in songs so many young Americans admire: New Jersey’s own Bruce Springsteen.” The Gipper shouting out to the Boss...
Meanwhile, documentary filmmaker Paul Rachman is flooring critics with “American Hardcore,” a movie which credits hardcore music for single-handedly saving rock and roll, and winning the Cold War to boot (all those anti-Reagan moshes really spurred the Gipper on to greatness). Bear in mind that Rachman started his own “punk rock film festival” called Slamdance, which he abandoned as soon as he could finagle “Hardcore” into Sundance. [CORRECTION APPENDED. See below...