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SARAH Palin was hailed as “Ronald Reagan in a dress” yesterday — by the former President’s son. Michael Reagan, 63, said watching the vice-presidential hopeful was like seeing “my dad reborn — only this time he’s a she”. Palin’s stirring speech at the Republican convention on Wednesday night was watched by 40million people across the US. And Michael, a broadcaster and writer whose father was President from 1981 to 1989 — said: “I’ve been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan. Pitbull “I insisted he...

“I believe that someday we are going to have a woman president, possibly during my life, and I've often thought the best way to pave the way for this was to first nominate and elect a woman as vice-president. But I think Mondale made a serious mistake when he picked Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. In my view, he guessed wrong in deciding to take a congresswoman that almost nobody had ever heard of and try to put her in line for the presidency. We have had many successful woman governors around the country who have demonstrated the potential...

SARAH Palin was hailed as “Ronald Reagan in a dress” yesterday — by the former President’s son. Michael Reagan, 63, said watching the vice-presidential hopeful was like seeing “my dad reborn — only this time he’s a she”. Palin’s stirring speech at the Republican convention on Wednesday night was watched by 40million people across the US. And Michael, a broadcaster and writer whose father was President from 1981 to 1989 — said: “I’ve been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan. I insisted he was...

Mike Reagan says he is furious at Olbermann's dissing the 911 tribute at the RNC last night. Says he is going to play the tribute multiple times. Call him with your thoughts. 800 468 6453 You can listen to the stream at Reagan.com

I've been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we'd never see his like again because he was one of a kind. I was wrong! Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he's a she. And what a she! In one blockbuster of a speech, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin resurrected my Dad's indomitable spirit and sent...

I’ve been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we’d never see his like again because he was one of a kind. I was wrong! Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he's a she. And what a she! In one blockbuster of a speech, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin resurrected my Dad’s indomitable spirit and sent...

Subtle cues in Palin's speech speak volumesBy Christopher CookSarah Palin is about to transform American politics. Last night's speech was unbelievably good. I've heard it said—by at least on person who was physically there for both—that it was the best convention speech since 1980. It's made even more impressive because, apparently, she delivered a good part of it from memory after the teleprompter broke. Wow. Barack Obama couldn't do that if his candidacy depended on it.Like everyone who isn't already suffused with irrational hatred of the woman, I sat enraptured by an amazingly impressive speech. And one word kept floating...

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan is not attending this week’s Republican convention but her son, Ron, is. Newsweek.com’s Tammy Haddad and her TamCam caught up with the son of the Republican icon. You can watch it HERE and hear Reagan describe his mother’s fondness for the current Democratic nominee. “John McCain and my mother have known each for years and years. Her parents, and Cindy McCain’s parents go way back in Phoenix, Arizona. She’s grateful to John McCain for standing with her on the issue of stem cells and, of course, has officially endorsed him. She’s fine with John McCain,...

Last night the country was introduced to the next Ronald Reagan and surprisingly, he is a she!! This morning, my office is all abuzz about Sarah Palin and her speech. But more importantly, I heard men and women, lawyers and staff, very excited about governor Palin and the fact that they could relate to her on so many levels. Her sense of optimism, dogged determination and plain spoken common sense and humor are Reaganesque not just in content, but also in their sincere authenticity. Like Reagan, she has that spirit of the American West; she sees no challenge too big...

The Democrats and their willing accomplices and devoted leftists in the media have completely lost it and they've gone rabid. They are trashing Palin and McCain throwing anything and everything against the wall hoping to derail the GOP. The level of hatred and viciousness underlies the DemonRATS desperation and the brilliance and wisdom of McCain's decision. Take a look at these headlines (just from Yahoo news this morning): McCain More Likely to Drop Palin, Bookmakers Say http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080902/pl_bloomberg/azjwbcginwsg;_ylt=Aj_FTVrnlWgWORCAZDrB95YDW7oF Palin's pork requests confound reformer image http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080903/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_palin_earmarks;_ylt=At1A015xUqCu1j.7EbpHbREDW7oF McCain campaign angrily defends Sarah Palin http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080903/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_palin;_ylt=AvDsrDMF4HQM0E08EdHmZXQDW7oF Romney readies for White House run if McCain fails...

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I think we need a break! So let's take a flashback to the outstanding speech by Ronald Reagan at the 1980 Republican National Convention. Reagan went on to defeat Pres. Jimmy Carter in the election that fall. One thing to keep in mind -- The way the media is going after Gov. Sarah Palin in such biased fashion reminds me of their hate for Ronald Reagan. Despite all their attempts to paint Reagan as too old, too lazy, an empty suit, "just an actor," a warmonger, etc., etc., he won! He won because he was right on the issues and...

Got a late start on my morning blog jam session because I had to get the edited text for my book on the Ronald Reagan myth and all the other bells and whistles back to the publisher, Free Press. The runway has been cleared for publication just in time for Reagan Day -- Feb. 6 -- and when the cover art is finished I look forward to sharing it with everyone. Thanks for your patience when I took some time off to work on this project -- I'm very excited about the end result. Anyway, it got me to wondering...

Even though my country, Sweden, isn't a NATO-member, I'm beginning to feel somewhat annoyed over the behavior the Russian Air Force displays towards my dear neighbor country Norway. I think the Nordic countries, as well as the whole of "Democratic" Europe will have to fight Russian Expansionism within a generation. Russia will lose. Russia stands no chance against a united Western Europe - and if Russia does not wish to realize this, we will make them highly aware of their inferiority in terms of population size, technological know-how, production capacity and overall management skills. Compared to governments like those of...

Here is video of the impromptu speech delegates demanded Ronald Reagan give at the 1976 GOP Convention. Reagan had lost a very tight race for the nomination with the more moderate President Gerald R. Ford. After Ford had given his acceptance speech, he graciously beckoned to the Reagans to come to the stage. The delegates began to chant, "Speech!." Reagan then gave a brief but compelling speech on the spur-of-the-moment. This video also gives some background leading up to the speech. . . . (see video at link)

July and August ought to see speculation about John McCain's vice presidential choice reach a fever pitch -- and it is not just a political game. Instead, vice presidential selections can be among the most consequential decisions in American history. Running mates are so often chosen with only short-term, purely political considerations in mind, so that even the presidential contender making the selection rarely realizes just how much he might be shaping long-term history. Consider how little Dwight Eisenhower knew about the ramifications of choosing for his veep a man who had been in public office for fewer than six...

Mr. Chairman, Mr. Vice President to be, this convention, my fellow citizens of this great nation: With a deep awareness of the responsibility conferred by your trust, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States. I do so with deep gratitude, and I think also I might interject on behalf of all of us, our thanks to Detroit and the people of Michigan and to this city for the warm hospitality they have shown. And I thank you for your wholehearted response to my recommendation in regard to George Bush as a candidate for vice president. I...

(CNSNews.com) – Poland’s willingness to accept U.S. missile interceptors as part of a multi-layered network suggests Ronald Reagan’s vision for a protective shield is gaining momentum throughout the free world, according to a strategic defense expert who spoke to CNSNews.com from Warsaw, Poland. “This is a tremendous milestone and an historic moment,” said Riki Ellison, president and founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA), which is based in Alexandria. Va. “If you look at this in the broader international context with 26 NATO nations now supporting this system, it is a very Reaganesque move, but it is no longer...

There's a bear in the woods. For some people its easy to see. Others don't see it at all....

If John McCain selects a pro-abortion running mate, he will continue an unfortunate tradition of Republican Presidential nominees sticking it to the conservative base. Sadly, even the man considered the greatest Republican President in modern American history wasn’t immune to doing wrong by the right. “…[W]e have to confess our disappointment with many of the people [Reagan] has chosen for his Administration”, wrote Richard A. Viguerie on behalf of the conservative movement in the December 23, 1980 Boston Globe. “We can live with any one, two or three of them, even though most are not the men we would have...

Despite 189 American lives lost in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, the U.S. settled all lawsuits against Libya for terrorist killings and restored diplomatic relations with the country today – with reparations to be paid to Libya. President Ronald Reagan ordered air strikes on Tripoli and Benghazi on April 15, 1986, after Libyan terrorists planted 6 pounds of plastic explosives packed with shrapnel on the dance floor of La Belle discotheque in Berlin, killing three people – including two U.S. soldiers – and maiming 200 others. Libyan President Col. Moammar Gadhafi (Courtesy: Sky News) Two years later, Pan Am...

Today, China is a brash, tough power -- unfree, undemocratic, enthused with nationalistic self-importance, and hosting the Olympic Games with fake-smiles hiding feral teeth. Today, Russia is a cynical authoritarian state, rallying behind a former functionary of the KGB as its "leader" and pushing around smaller nations, like Georgia, to show who is boss. Today, Moslems believe overwhelmingly that America, the liberator of tens of millions of Moslems from godless Communism, is the "Great Satan." What happened? Ronald Reagan won the Cold War almost without firing a shot. He defeated Soviet power with moral fortitude, with strategic alliances in the...

Two great men: President Ronald Reagan and Sir Winston Churchill. I love quotes, and I love it even more when I find one famous person paraphrasing or quoting another. Here, President Reagan does a riff off of Sir Winston. Both were staunch critics of appeasement. Wise words that we would do well to heed today. "To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will!" –Ronald Reagan “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile–hoping it will eat him last.” -...

In a tribute I wrote earlier, posted at National Review, I noted that it is impossible to capture in one column what Solzhenitsyn meant, experienced, and how he went about translating it to the West.--snip--Reagan, in turn, thanked God for Solzhenitsyn. The great dissident did far more than simply write a great book or two. Solzehnitsyn played a significant role in the American effort to place a stake in the heart of militant, atheistic Soviet communism. And for that and much more, Alexander Solzhenitsyn can now rest in peace, receiving some long overdue rewards, eternally free from the Siberian hell...

In the fall 1980, Time Magazine noted that Ronald Reagan's chances depended on his ability to break the Democratic Party's hold on the blue-collar vote, as Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon had done before him. As it turned out, President Reagan ran almost even in white working neighborhoods in the Frost Belt and well ahead among their counterparts in the South and the West. Thus was born the concept of "Reagan Democrats," white workers who may have registered as Democrats but voted Republican for president. Since then, this crucial swing vote has largely determined national elections. How have they been...

Amazing video at the link. This really is not an except, I just wanted the link to show. God Bless America!

Tuesday, August 05, 2008 No Illusions [Lee Edwards] Alexander Solzhenitsyn is best known for his epic trilogy The Gulag Archipelago, which revealed to the world the full scope of the Soviet Union’s infamous forced labor camp system in which millions died but not in vain. Solzhenitsyn’s documentation of their lives and deaths set in motion the forces that ultimately led to the collapse of Communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Solzhenitsyn understood how important his work was. “Oh, yes,” he said, “Gulag was destined to affect the course of history, I was sure of that.” It...

If Ronald Reagan said, for example, that he believed in fair play, he would have meant that every individual, without affirmative action, is entitled to an equal opportunity and equal treatment under the law. When liberal-progressive-socialists like Senator Obama, and the ruling element of the Democrat/Socialist Party, say that they are in favor of fair play, they mean something very different: that the government should intervene in the normal processes of human activity in order to give special treatment to favored economic and social classes and to redistribute income in the name of social justice. It is undeniable that, for...

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Kicking someone while they're down has long been considered bad form - except in politics. Republicans have fallen on hard times of late, trailing Democrats in party identification by 9 points, 27% to 36%, the widest margin in many years. President Bush suffers record low approval ratings (but then, so does Congress), and the GOP's election prospects look less than rosy.

Back to basics for conservatism while moving into the internet age. Youtube combines the power of the TV and the internet. For conservatives to win in the 21st century, they’ll need to engage American public opinion with “video pamphleteerism.” If the videos aren’t funny, they’re just spam. Here’s one of the best I’ve ever seen!! It has all of the laughs of slapstick humor and cartoons but it makes “a far larger conservative point.“ The show's host, John Galt actually appears on Rush Limbaugh in one of the other network’s videos. Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FvuZiAZKj8

Newsweek’s love for Barack Obama knows no bounds. After Obama’s speech in Berlin, Newsweek published a headline that suggests an editor who’s spent six days drunk on a merry-go-round: “Obama’s Reagan Moment.” That deserves the Lloyd Bentsen retort: “I knew Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was a friend of mine. Barack Obama is no Ronald Reagan.” The Newsweek piece sneered that while Obama and John Kennedy spoke to more than a hundred thousand people, Reagan spoke to a much smaller audience, “only about 20,000,” and they were outnumbered by leftist protesters the night before. They recalled, “Even some of Reagan’s aides...

Ronald Reagan’s 11th commandment is as sacred as the first 10…”Thou shalt not speak ill of any other republican.” Yes, moderates and right wingers can have our healthy disagreements. That makes us an intellectually stronger party than the democrats, which do not allow for dissenting views from the party orthodoxy (Joe Lieberman anyone?). However, we must not question each other’s motives. We are not liberals. We do not cannibalize each other, since we need every one of us to govern. As a Jewish republican, I have always thought of republicans as the Jews of politics. Everybody outside of us hates...

It’s only been a week or so since Tony Snow’s passing, and I can still hear him speaking to me. Snow was an outstanding fill-in host for Rush Limbaugh a decade or so ago, and at times he seemed to be a superior host to “El Rushbo” himself. Snow explained and defended his conservative views with a clarity and skill that was as effective as it was entertaining. Like fellow Limbaugh fill-in Dr. Walter E. Williams, Snow made conservatism intellectually as well as emotionally appealing. I’m sure that he convinced some liberal listeners to reconsider their views. Cancer has not...

<p>In one of the most ridiculous examples of unbridled hyperbole, Reuters has decided that singer Bruce Springsteen is the one responsible for bringing down the Berlin Wall and ending the Cold War. Yes, that's Bruce "Scorn in the USA" Springsteen, one of the most anti-American rockers on the scene. I know what you're thinking, "But what about Ronald Reagan?" Forget it, man, it's Bruce all the way as far as Reuters is concerned. Maybe it was his gravely warbling that Joshua-like brought those walls tumblin' down, maybe his caterwauling is what turned the trick, but, quite despite any common sense and in a childishly, foolish and overly simplistic review of history, Reuters is sure that Bruce is the hero of Berlin. It is a great example of reductio ad absurdo if there ever was one, not that Reuters is aware of it.</p>

God bless Ronnie! Video at the link.

Address on behalf of Senator Barry Goldwater Rendezvous with Destiny October 27, 1964 This speech is a verbatim transcript of "The Speech" given as a portion of a pre-recorded, nationwide televised program sponsored by Goldwater-Miller on behalf of Barry Goldwater, Republican candidate for the presidency whom Ronald Reagan actively supported. 4,626 words Thank you very much. Thank you and good evening. The sponsor has been identified, but unlike most television programs, the performer hasn't been provided with a script. As a matter of fact, I have been permitted to choose my own ideas regarding the choice that we face...

It could have been a coincidence when Barack Obama gave a major policy speech last week at a building named after former President Ronald Reagan. But it comes from the same campaign that until yesterday had pushed to hold a major foreign policy address at the Brandenburg Gate, where Ronald Reagan in 1987 famously demanded of his Soviet counterpart, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" During his bid for the presidency, Obama has repeatedly praised the political gifts of Reagan, the modern president most revered by Republicans, and whose policies are still held in contempt by many leading liberals. A...

It could have been a coincidence when Barack Obama gave a major policy speech last week at a building named after former President Ronald Reagan. But it comes from the same campaign that until yesterday had pushed to hold a major foreign policy address at the Brandenburg Gate, where Ronald Reagan in 1987 famously demanded of his Soviet counterpart, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” During his bid for the presidency, Obama has repeatedly praised the political gifts of Reagan, the modern president most revered by Republicans, and whose policies are still held in contempt by many leading liberals. A...

MAY I HAVE YOUR UNDIVIDED ATTENTION, PLEASE!!! In the absence of good material, I have opted to spend a few moments in unbridled rant… 1. Are you people really happy with the extreme lack of sincerity when it comes to political candidates? 2. Don’t tell me what “flavor” you are! I could care less if Republicrat or Demican or Greendipendent. 3. If there are no just plain-ol’ “Americans” left let’s just close the dang door and call it what it is… OVER! Today’s politicians stand there with their smug attitudes and silly self-righteous smirks on their faces and pontificate from...

Have you noticed that Barack Obama is actually running unopposed for the Presidency? Not since 1996 has it been this dispiriting, this embarrassing to be on the right. A dozen years ago, we all knew Bob Dole didn’t stand the proverbial snowball’s chance of becoming President, since the conservative base loathed the former Kansas Senator and independent voters regarded the veteran as too old for the job. Now, twelve years later, we’re in the exact same spot with John McCain. I hate to say this, but I have abandoned all hope for a McCain victory in November. The candidate is...

Too funny! Glad i found this clip.

Selected audio from President Reagan's radio spots from 1975 - 1979.

When it comes to Ronald Reagan, we are all pointillists, hoping to create a whole portrait from dots of experience. Consider four scenes from late in his public career: Scene One: President George H. W. Bush is sitting in the presidential limousine after visiting the Reagan office in Los Angeles. "He's such a great guy," Bush says, smiling and shaking his head in wonderment. He describes a private meeting — just the two presidents and Bush's national-security adviser, Brent Scowcroft. Reagan broke the ice with a joke, leavened a conversation with a few stories, and afterward treated the entire entourage...

When Lady Thatcher revived the British economy, she was reviving profound social virtues that the British had once exemplified to the world—the Thatcherite “vigorous virtues” described above. In 1979, they seemed utterly destroyed by 50 years of statism and socialism. In fact, they had merely been driven underground by government over-regulation and intervention. As James C. Bennett has observed, it took only a few years of Lady Thatcher’s application of free market solutions for these virtues to become vigorous again. Once that happened, it took only a few more years for those revived virtues to transform Britain from the sick...

Outside her Bel-Air home, Nancy Reagan stood arm in arm with John McCain and offered a significant -- but less than exuberant -- endorsement. "Ronnie and I always waited until everything was decided, and then we endorsed," the Republican matriarch said in March. "Well, obviously this is the nominee of the party." They were the only words she would speak during the five-minute photo op. In a written statement, she described McCain as "a good friend for over 30 years." But that friendship was strained in the late 1970s by McCain's decision to divorce his first wife, Carol, who was...

Outside her Bel-Air home, Nancy Reagan stood arm in arm with John McCain and offered a significant -- but less than exuberant -- endorsement. "Ronnie and I always waited until everything was decided, and then we endorsed," the Republican matriarch said in March. "Well, obviously this is the nominee of the party." They were the only words she would speak during the five-minute photo op. In a written statement, she described McCain as "a good friend for over 30 years." But that friendship was strained in the late 1970s by McCain's decision to divorce his first wife, Carol, who was...

Perusing the Sunday newspapers with plagiaristic intent, I come across an article about who's responsible for the current energy debacle. Politicians are mentioned along with the amazingly shortsighted auto executives and the oil industry itself. Names — lots of names — are dropped, everyone from the current Bush to the previous Bush to Clinton. But not a mention of the culprit-in-chief, Ronald Wilson Reagan — still, after all these years, the Teflon president.

The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory and President Ronald Reagan enjoyed a deep relationship for many years. National Day of Reflection By the President of the United States of America Amid the distractions and concerns of our daily existence, it is appropriate that Americans pause to reflect upon the ancient ethical principles and moral values which are the foundation of our character as a nation. We seek, and steadfastly pursue, the benefits of education. But education must be more than factual enlightenment-it must enrich the character as well as the mind. One shining example for people of...

IT IS A great pleasure to be back at Hillsdale. It is some 32 years since I first visited the College for a meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society. Those few days were an important education in American politics for me. The conference was attended by many people who had just returned from the Republican Convention at which President Ford had narrowly defeated Ronald Reagan. They were full of enthusiasm for Reagan and full of conviction that one day he would become president. Their enthusiasm—and their passion too for sound doctrine—swept me along. I think I became a firm Reaganite...