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Ronald Reagan: Republican Party
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Having recently switched his political affiliation to the Republican party, Ronald Reagan was becoming more politically active as the sixties unfolded. General Electric found this activism distressing and dropped his contract; as a result, GE Theater [W]as cancelled in 1962.
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The nation (and the media) continue to mourn Ronald Reagan today, but politics creeps back into the headlines. Especially in Florida, where Al Gore is throwing spitballs in the Democratic Senate campaign-turned-foodfight, and in South Carolina, where four top Republicans face off in a Senate primary today.
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In 1988, Reagan's Vice President, George H.W. Bush was elected President, marking the first election in 60 years where the outgoing and incoming presidents were from the same party. Reagan's presidency influenced the culture of the 1980s and the modern Republican party.
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Reagan was in many ways the founder of the modern Republican Party. His redefinition of fiscal conservatism as being focused on tax cuts without regard to a balanced budget ("Reaganomics"); his opposition to progressive taxation, greater environmental protection and regulation, and abortion; the importance of the Moral Majority and its supporters in his governing coalition; and even his support of missile defense systems have all become trademarks of subsequent Republican leaders, including George W. Bush. Reagan's immediate predecessors such as Richard Nixon and Dwight Eisenhower would not have recognized any of these as part of the Republican platform.
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Noonan is a former speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan and the author of six books on politics and culture. She is taking a hiatus from her Wall Street Journal column to consult for the Republican National Committee through Election Day. She ... does commentary for MSNBC.
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Reagan emerged on the national political scene in 1964 when he made an impassioned television speech supporting the Republican presidential candidate, United States senator Barry Goldwater from Arizona. Although Goldwater lost the election, Reagan’s speech brought in money and praise from Republicans around the country.
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