Happy Birthday to the Gipper
Today would have been Ronald Wilson Reagan's 99th birthday. In these troubling times it is a comfort to realize that the American people chose this man twice to our president, in landslides. Conservatism is America's philosophy. No one, save Goldwater or Buckley or Limbaugh, can claim to have brought conservatism -- the philosophy of our founders -- into the mainstream more than Reagan.
Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15. --Ronald Reagan
We miss you desperately, Mr. President.
You said it, George. I miss Reagan and revere him.
A local candidate for the Republican nomination in the 19th in Florida was my favorite of the three. The establishment candidate, Lynch, won. But I liked Curt Price the best. I even liked his campaign poster the best. The others had a purply blue kind of background. Ugh. They chose a background that reflected the democrats or a mixture. Price's poster had a red border and he proclaimed himself on it as a "Reagan Republican".
A pet peeve of mine is that most posters don't identify the party or what ideas a candidate represents. The hope to get more votes without pigeonholing oneself is the new pattern.
Well, I salute Mr. Price for defining himself and in the best way.
All of our candidates should so identify themselves. That would suit me just fine.
Our best guy is dead, long live our best guy in our thoughts and choices.
And I loved the quote you used, too.
Of course, the wise guy who decided that WE would be the red ones created a bad joke.
I agree Honey, the colors should be switched so Dems can be the "Reds"
President Reagan's first inaugural address, @ 3.00 he touches on deficit, and @ 4.20 is the classic "... government is the problem..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpPt7xGx4Xo
I miss him very much. I hope that whoever it is that picks up the ashes from the current administration in 2012, they use something from this speech. God knows there's plenty to choose from.
How far the mighty have fallen ...
http://oceanaris.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/obama-mao-with-congress2.jpg
To compare Limbaugh with Barry Goldatwer is sacrlidge!
Rush Bimbo is a two bit hack.
Goldwater was a statesmen and stuck to his guns no matter what the Ill informed masses thought. BG paved the way and made Reagan's election in 1980 possible.
Thanks for the video link, Marc. The class and grace Reagan showed to start off his speech thanking Carter for his cooperation in the transition... compare that to the left-wing wackos singing "Nanana, hey hey hey, goodbye" to Bush when Obummer was inaugurated.
Cato,
I don't know who you are or what your problem is but Rush is essential to our time. Goldwater was great and seminal in the conservative movement, correct.
But Rush, National Review and others also helped and help today.
Why do liberals always have to name call?
Why are they incapable of just saying I don't agree with so and so? And if you don't identify yourself as a liberal, then why do you behave like one?
Cato, do you have reading comprehension issues?
"No one, save Goldwater or Buckley or Limbaugh, can claim to have brought conservatism -- the philosophy of our founders -- into the mainstream more than Reagan"
I don't think so George. Maybe you have a cognition problema.
Honey do you check under the bed at night for Liberals? Just because I think BG shouldn't be compared to a pill popping bozo doesn't make me a liberal or member of a demonic cult.
And if I recall correctly "Political Correctness" was a originally a liberal propaganda campaign. I will call them as I see them and make full use of the language when doing so.
Cato,
You are beginning to sound quite ridiculous. I used to like liberals. You could reason with them and have fun arguments with them. (I am able to argue with conservatives cordially and logically.) But no longer is it possible to have a serious discussion with liberals. It's all Klavan and the Culture.
I don't have to check under the bed for liberals. They are all around me in their wrongheadedness.
Rush Limbaugh may have become addicted to pain killers because of serious pain issues, but he has been in rehab and is the better man for what he learned about himself there. Rush Limbaugh is no bozo. You, on the other hand, seem intent on proving yourself to be one.
George Moneo has no cognition problems. He is one of my favorite people.
So look at that. You have insulted two of my favorite people in one post. Wait, no, you have insulted three of my favorite people. I forgot about me.
Where did I consider you a member of a demonic cult, unless you mean that I called you a liberal or said you behave like one. If I disagree with your assessment, how does that merit being described as political correctness?
You exaggerate in your feeble attempts at argument and I always tell my friends a million times never to exaggerate.
To me the ultimate hipocrisy is to profess publicly against a "sin" you commit privately. Rush was a drug war cheerleader while popping prescription pain killers he obtained illegally.
Putting the name of someone of that ilk next to the name of Barry Goldwater and to a lesser degree William Buckley irks me, if that makes me a liberal or whatever in your mind then so be it.
JEEEZ This Island on the internet might be absent a bearded dictator but it seems to have more than a few aspirants who want to take his place.
"Let he that is without sin cast the first stone."
"Let he that is without sin cast the first stone."
Exactly my point and advice that would have served Rush well.
Your perfection is duly noted.
I just watched the speech. Not one I or I will. Not one me. Not any new government program. All we the people stuff. And that last line - oh!
Just listen to our current "great orator in chief" and see how flat and destructive his speeches are; listen to their dull cadences, their lack of enduring love for this country and all it symbolizes and is.
Reagan was the one and the only. Great speech and great man.