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You are hereSteven HaywardThe Only Good Conservative is a Dead Conservative
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Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidency
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The Climategate Scandal Continues
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Jonah Goldberg recently made the observation that for many liberals, the best conservative role models are dead conservatives. As Goldberg noticed that many liberal ideal conservatives, “always exited yesterday.” Jeb Bush's recent statement on “Reagan not being able to get elected in today’s GOP” was not, as Goldberg notice, not one of Bush’s better moment. Goldberg wrote, “Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush reignited the topic by lamenting how Reagan couldn’t be nominated today because the GOP has become too rigid and ideological for even the Gipper. I think Jeb Bush is one of the best conservative politicians 
For many years after he left office, Reagan’s Presidency was viewed as a failure, but since his foreign policy led to the end of the Cold War and his economic philosophy led to three decades of growth, it was hard for historians to continue deriding one of the most influential and successful Presidents in American History. When Reagan died in 2004, many of those historians and pundits who vilified him when he was alive, eulogized him as one of our great President and often asked, could Republicans use a man like Reagan again? (I suspect that many Republicans agree.) 
Journalist Don Surber relayed yet another climategate email from the East Anglia gang, demonstrating not just the weakness of the man-made climate change science but also reinforces what those who believe in Natural causing climate change have been saying for years. A leader in the man-made climate change, Phil Jones noted, “I have been looking at some long temperature records from Fennoscandia, particularly those put together during the IMPROVE project. 
