RedStatehttps://redstate.com/erick/2010/12/01/thank-god-ronald-reagan-was-a-conservative-before-being-a-republican/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 01:15:47 -0400Thank God Ronald Reagan Was a Conservative Before Being a Republican<![CDATA[Thank God that Ronald Reagan put his principles ahead of politics. As regular readers know, I&#8217;m not fully enamored by Dick Morris, but one of the best quotes on polling I&#8217;ve ever heard comes from Dick Morris. To paraphrase, Morris said politicians should never lead based on polling, but should lead based on principle and use polling to shape the message to enact those principles into law.]]>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:00:00 -0500<![CDATA[Erick Erickson]]>https://redstate.com/erick/2010/12/01/thank-god-ronald-reagan-was-a-conservative-before-being-a-republican-n37152