[BlessedBeGod]

We need Morning in America again.

[gleeaikin]

ping

[VRWC For Truth]

1. Bushies screwed the US.
2. Leftist takeover of schools and media.
3. Illegals.

Soetoro is the symptom.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Hear! Hear!

[RedHeeler]

Truth is well placed, in your statement. Yet, our current society/culture is ill-equipped to recognize the present situation...much less, the near future. Can we survive this onslaught of savage ignorance? Yes.

[Starstruck]

Carter talked about the malaise. He made people feel America's days were over. Reagan came along and effectively articulated what America could once again become. When he talked he believed it and he could get people to believe it too.

We are now at a point that is worse than Carter and I'm not seeing a Reagan. The media works hard to define conservative candidates as stupid, dangerous and out of touch. They tried to do that with Reagan but they were unsuccessful.

[AZLiberty]

Jim Robinson 2016!

[Psalm 144]

“We do not need to abandon and evolve away from this vision. We need to embrace and revive it.”

Your recollections are accurate. And to embrace and revive that vision, we are going to have to tackle the GOP head on, as they are now part of the problem.

[nathanbedford]

You are quite right, our path is not to evolve away from this vision but to embrace and revive it. We should embrace it because it's good for America and good for winning elections.

There are many today who will concede that it's good for America but a recipe for failure at the polling booths. We call them Rinos for the most part but I am more and more coming to call them careerists who have analyzed the the landscape and concluded that the best way to further their careers is to enable the monster-system which fills their constituents' rice bowls even as these careerists loudly deplore the system. Most of them know as we do that this monster-system is hurtling toward a cliff and there will be nothing but broken rice bowls and bitter memories of liberty as the Republic pitches into the void. Nevertheless, they enable as they dissemble.

Ronald Reagan was able to lift men's vision to a higher ideal but also to a practical reality. He succeeded wonderfully at the polls although he was less successful in implementing a permanent restoration of the American dream.

There were many tricks exploited by Democrats, whom I choose to call leftists, which enable them to frustrate the very good policies outlined in your piece. At all costs, Democrats know they must change the subject from liberty and prosperity to other issues. What issues have they been successful with in diverting the electorate away from America's founding principles?

Above all, the left has exploited race as a way of changing the subject. In 2008 a perfect storm coalesced around Barack Obama and all of Reagan's vision was simply swept into irrelevancy by the charisma of the First Black President. We have analyzed ad nauseam on these threads how resort to racialism has enabled the left to shut down debate and proceed with its agenda. Never in American history, even considering reconstruction and the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, has race played so potent but pernicious a role in American politics. We have put a tyrant in the most powerful position in the world and we are virtually impotent to check his depredations.

More generally, the left has invoked race to eliminate all rational analysis of its entitlements programs and it has afforded both the providers and the receivers of government largess a comfortable rationalization which permits that process to go unreformed even as the Republic approaches the cliff. So thoroughly successful has this Goebbels-like big lie concerning racism been invoked by the left that they reap 95% vote from African-Americans and appear on course to approach those numbers eventually among Hispanics and Muslims. The fact that unemployment is astronomical among African-Americans relative to white Americans has done nothing to shake the effectiveness of the left's exploitation of race among this demographic.

But it's not race alone that the left has exploited to mask its agenda. We see the pernicious game of identity politics being played out in feminism, homosexuality, and secularism, to identify just a few. An unwed mother of minor children goes to the polls utterly unconcerned about federal government's fiscal irresponsibility and the inevitability of a crash with its unavoidable consequences for her children. She goes to the polls believing that her children must be protected against their fathers, society, and capitalism by the very government which creates the threats to her children. She is diverted away from reality to a worldview which is utterly destructive of her own interests but she will vote that worldview, just as African-Americans will vote a worldview that virtually guarantees their misery.

If we are to repeat Ronald Reagan success at the polls we must find a way of restoring his vision which is another way of saying we must reintroduce into the consciousness of the electorate Ronald Reagan's worldview and prevent the Democrats from insinuating their diversions of race gender etc.. It is helpful but not decisive that we have the better view, we must also present it as compellingly as did Ronald Reagan.

[JDoutrider]

Oh Lord how I miss that Great man, and the America that was...

[Errant]

The last thing we need is to evolve, adapt and pander to the lowest common denominator.

No need to evolve Jim, I'm afraid we're already there. Reagan, bless his soul, for all his well meaning intentions and no doubt some accomplishment, was just a bump in the road in the bigger scheme of things. Reality bites...

[Neil E. Wright]

Hey, Jim! You need to have John install a “LIKE” button.

[from occupied ga]

Stronger families through jobs and pay checks vs unemployment or welfare checks

Unfortunately the last thing zero's supporters want is a job. Why work when you can get the government to steal for you? Most of them are healthy and able to hold down a job, but they just don't want to and don't need to as long as the rest of us are forced to support them.

[G Larry]

The GOPe have bought into the notion they must compete with the VOTE BUYING PROGRAMS of the left.

The GOPe are TOO LAZY to fight bumper sticker lies with the depth of the TRUTH.

There is no effective method to convey the TRUTH on a bumper sticker.

The lies are easy.

[CPT Clay]

Happy New Year America

Here is what happened on January 1st 2014:

Top Income tax bracket went from 35% to 39.6%

Top Income payroll tax went from 37.4% to 52.2%

Capital Gains tax went from 15% to 28%

Dividends tax went from 15% to 39.6%

Estate tax went from 0% to 55%

Remember this fact: if you have money, the democrats want it. These taxes were all passed only with democrat votes, no republicans voted for these taxes.

These taxes were all passed under the affordable care act, aka Obamacare.