# Handicapping the 2012 GOP presidential nomination

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [February 12, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/handicapping-the-2012-gop-presidential-nomination/571160 "2011-02-12T21:14:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Recovering\_Republican](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@Recovering\_Republican](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Recovering_Republican)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/handicapping-the-2012-gop-presidential-nomination/571160/615 "2011-07-03T19:34:35Z")

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> [@Crane](#):
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> I never understood the pride in America problem. We had landed men on the moon and were in a leadership position in science, semiconductors and computers. American exceptionalism was at its’ peak.
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> Reagan was the beginning of the end.
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> Crane

Well, if you see us at the end or in an end process, that might a bit of your problem.

I see that people did see a decline, of people burning our flag in contempt, etc. Of Iran taking hostages and there still being Iranians alive afterwards.

Reagan restored that pride, which declined under the shiftless Nixon and Gutless Carter.

So why all this hostility towards Reagan. Were you like an Air Traffic controller or something?

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