{"id":13904,"date":"2012-04-24T12:47:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T16:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13904"},"modified":"2012-04-24T12:51:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T16:51:33","slug":"ponnuru-on-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13904\/ponnuru-on-reagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponnuru on Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ramesh Ponnuru is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-04-23\/obama-republicans-ransack-reagan-s-record-come-up-empty.html\"> right on target<\/a> about Reagan&#8217;s legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans and conservatives, too, misrepresent his lessons:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reagan believed that one reason his immediate predecessors were perceived as failures was that they conveyed a sense of being overwhelmed by the presidency. Only with time has it become clear how much \u201creal discipline, hard work and focus\u201d Reagan kept hidden.<\/p>\n<p>This misimpression about Reagan, says Hayward, leads conservatives to underemphasize the importance of all this hard work &#8212; both in drafting policies and honing rhetoric &#8212; and to think that good gut instincts are a substitute for it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When conservatives these days look for presidential and especially VP candidates, they are far too prone to go for the &#8220;gut instinct&#8221; test rather than the tests of experience, wisdom, proven record, etcetera. Food for thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramesh Ponnuru is right on target about Reagan&#8217;s legacy. Republicans and conservatives, too, misrepresent his lessons: Reagan believed that one reason his immediate predecessors were perceived as failures was that they conveyed a sense of being overwhelmed by the presidency. Only with time has it become clear how much \u201creal discipline, hard work and focus\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3496,456],"class_list":["post-13904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-ramesh-ponnuru","tag-ronald-reagan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13907,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13904\/revisions\/13907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}