Anger over welfare and affirmative action helped forge the Reagan Coalition.
He said I'm going to bust up the Reagan coalition of people who care about the Second Amendment and taxes and the First Amendment on campaign finance reform and tax issues.
After two Reagan landslide wins, it took George Bush just one term to trash the Reagan coalition, crawling out of town in 1992 with just 38% of the vote, barely better than Alf Landon in 1936.
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And Bush said no, I'm a Reagan Republican and we're going to maintain the Reagan Republican coalition.
In 2000 you had a candidate who ran explicitly against the Reagan Republican coalition, and that was John McCain.
The Republicans would also making a grave political error insofar as they are seen to be stiff-arming a core constituency the Reagan defense coalition, for want of a better term.
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Indeed, the stakes are nothing less than the future of America, whose best hope is that a new, stronger and more dynamic Reagan conservative coalition will emerge from the divisions papered over at CPAC 2011.
He may also alienate a key element of his political constituency without which neither he nor his Republican party will fare well in future elections: the active-duty military and the millions of others in and out of uniform National Guard and Reserve personnel, veterans, defense contractors, their employees and unions, and other patriotic Americans who once formed the Reagan defense coalition.
He may also alienate a key element of his political constituency without which neither he nor his Republican party will fare well in future elections: the active-duty military and the millions of others in and out of uniform National Guard and Reserve personnel, veterans, defense contractors, their employees and unions, and other patriotic Americans who once formed the Reagan defense coalition.
Some 30 years after Ronald Reagan assembled his winning coalition, the task of any candidate who wants to unite conservatives remains largely the same: Run on a message that brings together economic libertarians, defense hawks and social conservatives.
Mr Bush's enthusiasm for social conservatism is, indeed, endangering the sunbelt coalition that Mr Reagan did so much to build.
Mr. MITT ROMNEY (Republican, Former Governor, Massachusetts): And my view, we're going to have to bring together the same coalition that Ronald Reagan put together.
Over two decades ago, President Reagan signed, and a bipartisan Senate coalition ratified this landmark document, which affirms the essential principle that under no circumstances is torture ever justified.
Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush succeed even further by bringing into the coalition Christian Fundamentalism.
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Palin, who is considering a run in the 2012 Republican presidential primaries, is using her public platforms to reassemble the coalition of security hawks, social conservatives and blue collar workers that propelled Ronald Reagan to the White House in 1980.
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