Kengor has sifted through President Reagan's speeches, blended those words with Reagan's actions in office, and distilled from all this the eleven principles on which Ronald Reagan lived and governed:Posted on 02/14/2014 9:01:44 AM PST by neverdem
Reagan's Roadmap to Victory
11 Principles of a Reagan Conservative
by Paul Kengor, Beaufort Books, 133 pages, $16.95
Do you miss President Reagan? Do you smile every time you see a film clip of our 40th president on some television show? And do you lunge for the remote control and flip from Fox News to a movie channel every time one of the current Republican would-be presidents starts to say something so weird, so clumsy, so blindingly stupid you'd think he was actually trying to help Hillary get elected?
Treat yourself to a copy of 11 Principles of a Reagan Conservative, by Paul Kengor. It's a brilliant, beautifully written summary of what Ronald Reagan believed and how he communicated his beliefs to those of us he cheerfully called "my fellow Americans."
Kengor has sifted through President Reagan's speeches, blended those words with Reagan's actions in office, and distilled from all this the eleven principles on which Ronald Reagan lived and governed:
Reagan's adherence to these principles wasn't based on the results of a focus-group study or on the advice of some overpaid political consultant. It was based on a lifetime of serious study -- of politics, of history, of economics, and of human nature -- that the President's critics never grasped and never even suspected this genial Californian had undertaken. Reagan himself explained his devotion to these principles in a speech he gave in 1977, three years before he was elected president:
The principles of conservatism are sound because they are based on what men and women have discovered through experience in not...
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As much as I admire Reagan I’m stunned he signed the first nofault divorce in our nation and paved the way for the massive collapse of marriage.
I suspect he regretted that
along with his amnesty-for-illegals stance
still...
Reagan + Thatcher + JPII = no Soviet Union
let’s not forget Jimmy Carter days
Oh indeed you are correct. The Reagan / Thatcher / JPII and the collapse of communism are great.
My hats off to him.
I just swerved into that divorce law thing the other day and its beflummoxed me though.
Ya we all make mistakes.
His first marriage ended very nastily.
I think that also influenced his stance.
He did it because the lawyers were colluding on how to get every dime. The battles were doing more damage to an already ruined marriage. My dad spent the equivalent of two houses fighting a 9-year war in the court.
That's why.
Reagan did not have to confront anything near the size of our “taker” class in 1980. Most people, even if they were Democrats, worked for a living.
I have my doubts he could pull it off today.
Reagan expressed regret for several things he did as California Governor. Including relaxing their abortion restrictions.
Unlike our current President, he was able to admit that he was wrong and learn from the experience.
no matter how intelligent we like to think we are
there are always instances that call for:
1. Bang head on desk and mutter...
2. “I can’t believe I did that.”
Reagan was by far the best president in our lifetime, had a road map for conservative success that is superb and virtually incomparable.
It's as if we forgot the blueprint to conservative success and just want to wail and gnash our teeth.......
And don’t forget he signed the euphemistically named “Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986.” That’s the one that froze in place the number of select fire weapons that civilians could legally transfer among themselves. And that was a complete violation of the 2nd Amendment.
“Do you miss President Reagan?”
Dude, I wish I had a time machine so I literally could go back to the Reagan years. I’d happily trade the internet and other conveniences of today to relive 8 years of the Gipper. The 80s weren’t perfect, but it was a heck of a lot less screwed up than now, IMHO.
In fact, it should be required reading for schoolchildren, if public schools were honest in the teaching of modern civilization.
I’ve been married for over 25 years (yes, to the same woman) but I don’t believe that it should be overly difficult to get a divorce. Nobody should be trapped in an unhappy marriage.
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