Posted on 10/28/2020 5:20:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Fifty-six years ago this week, Ronald Reagan endorsed the Republican senator Barry Goldwater for president of the United States, during his famous “A Time For Choosing” speech on October 27th, 1964. Although Goldwater did not win in that election, Reagan helped breathe new life into the Republican party for generations to come by winning over the American people with his ideas, and his optimism for the future of the country.
In that speech Reagan, outlined Goldwater’s vision for the nation and spoke of the divergent paths that the two presidential candidates intended to lead the country down. “If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth… This is the issue of this election: whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves,” Reagan said.
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By contrast, a vote for the incumbent, Lyndon Johnson, called for a weakened economy, more regulations, inflation, a war on profit incentives, and the promotion of the welfare state. It meant an acceptance of “The Great Society,” the expansion of a centralized government, and a ruling class of politicians and unelected bureaucrats, that would pick winners and losers, and dictate how its citizens should live their lives. “The full power of centralized government -- this was the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to minimize,” Reagan said.
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The left hates the Constitution. They seem to prefer the use of force. How will they like it whem people deal with them the same way?
Wasn’t Goldwater literally Hitler? And then Nixon? and then Reagan? And then Bush? And now literally literally Trump?
The Leftists have played this game for far too long while cozying up to Communists, antisemties, and racists.
Wasn’t Goldwater literally Hitler? And then Nixon? and then Reagan? And then Bush? And now literally literally Trump?
The Leftists have played this game for far too long while cozying up to Communists, anti-Semites, and racists.
Conservative Barry Goldwater got 800+ votes at the 1964 GOP convention...George Romney only got 41...George stomped out of the convention followed by 16 yo Willard...Moderate George and his Republican friends went and helped Democrat Lynden Johnson with money and influence...
Thus Willard learnt his back stabbing early...
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