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Another Ronald Reagan?
Socialism Stomping Blog ^ | 11/15/2005 | Jefferson Adams

Posted on 11/15/2005 6:48:12 AM PST by writer33

Was Ronald Reagan truly unique? How exceptional was it that a small select group of men came along at just the right moment in time to become the Founding Fathers of what would prove to be the most extraordinary nation in the history of the world? Between the federal, state and local governments, there are thousands of elected public officials. Can you identify the ones that you believe have the characteristics or attributes of another Ronald Reagan or the Founding Fathers? Can you identify any that you believe to be equivalent to Ronald Reagan or the Founders?

AOL and the Discovery Channel recently reported an uncontrolled survey of public opinion to determine the "Greatest American" in the history of our country. There were 2.4 million votes reportedly cast. Ronald Reagan won with 24%. Lincoln was second and Martin Luther King Jr., third (23.5% and 19.7%). Washington and Franklin completed the top five (17.7% and 14.9%). In sequential order, the top ten were rounded out by George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Elvis Presley, Oprah Winfrey and Franklin Roosevelt. Voting was apparently conducted in phases of the top 100, top 25, and top 5. How the results were tabulated is not defined, but even so, the reported results are curious in that the top five polled a total of 99.86% of the reported results. There are nine living present or former presidents and vice presidents, nine current Supreme Court Justices, fifty sitting governors, and 535 current members of the United States Congress. In the reported results, no living American got even .2 of one percent. While this survey is certainly not conclusive, it offers some evidence that most Americans do not consider our presently elected or recent past leaders among the "great".

"We have the best Congress money can buy," Mark Twain. Twain died before Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt made it possible for politicians to take matters into their own hands. Closer to the truth, but still not an accurate depiction of American politics since 1932, President Reagan said, "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I’ve come to realize there is a very close resemblance to the first.” A better definition of a "professional" politician is one who is more interested in securing their own lifetime career in office through repeated re-election than in fulfilling the duties of their elected office. And because they are more interested in their own re-election, they are willing to subvert the Constitution in order to use the public treasury to buy blocks of votes from the public. In effect, "professional" politicians have converted our "republic" into a democracy by surrogates. The Founders envisioned statesmen winning elections based on principles. In contrast, unhampered by term limits, "professional" politicians began using socialism as the mechanism for the creation of blocks or categories of voters. With the almost unlimited taxing and borrowing power of the US treasury at their disposal, "professional" politicians then repeatedly and competitively bid for, and purchased the blocks of votes which they had created with socialism. As a vote harvesting tool, state legislatures extended socialism to government jobs; think "public" education and teachers. As early as 1964 Reagan reminded us, "Plutarch warned, 'The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."

If the Divine Hand of Providence is still watching over or guiding the path of the United States, surely there must be another Ronald Reagan or perhaps even a number of men like him in a country with a population of nearly 300 million. The first US Census (1790) taken under the supervision of Thomas Jefferson showed a population of only 3.9 million; among them were men like Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Madison, the signers of the Declaration and the countless patriots who fought in the American Revolution. The men and women serving in the military, not only today, but also in every past generation are a testament to the fact that patriots exactly like those that fought the Revolutionary War are and have been present in our population in substantial numbers in every generation of Americans. Where are the political leaders like Ronald Reagan and the Founders? What deters them from stepping forward and seeking public office?

Ronald Reagan's two landslide elections and the 1994 Congressional elections suggest that statesmen of a caliber similar to Ronald Reagan or the Founders can defeat "professional" politicians whose re-elections are dependent upon socialism, the insidious cancer that poses what is by far the most significant threat to our freedom. And it is freedom that forms the foundation on which our civilization is built. History is unambiguous; all democracies have ended in bankruptcy or hyperinflation whenever the public learns to vote itself benefits. Could the Constitution be restored and our republic be saved or resurrected if men like Ronald Reagan and the Founders could be recruited to come forward and seek election?

Ronald Reagan was clearly the catalyst that precipitated the downfall, but socialism is what doomed the Soviet Union to the Ash-heap of History. When carefully studied, Reagan's speeches are filled with guideposts that form a road map to the renaissance that will become his true legacy. Ash-heap or renaissance are the alternatives that Reagan was actually describing in A Time For Choosing: "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness."

In the pages that follow, you are going to learn what is almost certainly the best, if not the only, way to recruit and elect statesmen made from the same mold as Ronald Reagan. Although the execution is not guaranteed to be easy, there truly is a simple way to both recruit, and elect patriots cut from the same cloth as the Founding Fathers.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: constitution; presidents; ronaldreagan; theplan
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To: writer33

"We have the best Congress money can buy," Mark Twain.

I think Mark Twain is the truest wit.


61 posted on 11/16/2005 2:50:37 PM PST by onyx eyes (.... I'd give at least .50 cents to know why ....oh, never mind....)
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To: calrighty

Thanks for reading, calrighty. The author appreciates it and thanks you.


62 posted on 11/16/2005 4:49:28 PM PST by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
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To: mbraynard

Now don't start knocking the Raw Deal, mbraynard.

:)


63 posted on 11/16/2005 4:52:32 PM PST by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
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To: onyx eyes

Mark Twain weren't bad. :)


64 posted on 11/16/2005 4:58:24 PM PST by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
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To: writer33

Twain BTTT! I still go back and read his work.


66 posted on 11/16/2005 5:00:14 PM PST by calrighty ( Watch " The Beeber Story ", written by al baby, produced by Hugh Series. Troops BTTT)
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To: Stingy Dog

:) HA!

Good one, SD.


67 posted on 11/16/2005 5:00:58 PM PST by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
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To: calrighty

You only get those kind of authors once in a lifetime. Unfortunately, it was before our lifetimes.


68 posted on 11/16/2005 5:02:06 PM PST by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
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To: writer33

At least we have one good fiction writer.


69 posted on 11/16/2005 5:08:27 PM PST by calrighty ( Watch " The Beeber Story ", written by al baby, produced by Hugh Series. Troops BTTT)
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To: writer33; conservatism_IS_compassion
Maybe this should be factored into the discussion, as long as FDR is being hammered. Maybe someone can refute this or shed some light on it: Probably off topic here, but interesting -- and maybe even relevant, if true:

1933 Bankruptcy

70 posted on 11/17/2005 11:08:13 PM PST by Eastbound
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To: Eastbound
Traficant was a Democrat and was expelled from the House after being convicted and sentenced to eight years in a federal penitentiary. Some of the rant that you linked is factually based. I have not tried to discover how much is conjecture or how much has been surmised.

Without substantiating anything, there is some relevant history and it does tie to the topic of discussion, forcing the federal government to live within the Constitution.


71 posted on 11/18/2005 8:55:12 AM PST by HopefulPatriot
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To: John Robertson; Jack Bull; scouse; M Kehoe; Always Right; syriacus; Fzob; el_texicano; Moomah; ...

Would anyone like to comment or add their thoughts to the comments or questions above?


72 posted on 11/18/2005 8:57:38 AM PST by HopefulPatriot
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To: steve50; JohnGalt; fporretto; George Frm Br00klyn Park; tacticalogic; VoodooEconomist; Wolf_E; ...

Would any of you be kind enough to share your thoughts about the comments or questions raised above?


73 posted on 11/18/2005 8:59:07 AM PST by HopefulPatriot
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To: HopefulPatriot

BTTT


74 posted on 11/18/2005 9:03:07 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: HopefulPatriot

Later...I'll post some comments...thanks for the ping.


75 posted on 11/18/2005 9:15:55 AM PST by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: Reaganghost

Mike Pence.


76 posted on 11/18/2005 9:25:19 AM PST by RockinRight (It’s likely for a Conservative to be a Republican, but not always the other way around)
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To: Gipper08

Thought you'd be interested.


77 posted on 11/18/2005 9:26:08 AM PST by RockinRight (It’s likely for a Conservative to be a Republican, but not always the other way around)
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To: HopefulPatriot

Thanks for the ping. I'll have to give it some thought, but my off-the-cuff opinion is that history is always a better judge of a man than the media (or the present) is. Ronald Reagan was reviled by the dems and the media during his presidency as a stupid cowboy whose only grace was that he surrounded himself with good advisors, despite the fact he was re-elected by a landslide. And given half a chance, the media and dems would still revile him. It's only when history has shown us what he accomplished that we see him clearly. I loved Reagan; he was the president who first got me interested in politics. But he too was hated by his opponents, just like Pres. Bush. History may show us that Pres. Bush is a leader just like Reagan was; we just can't see long-term from the present.


78 posted on 11/18/2005 9:41:14 AM PST by hsalaw
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To: HopefulPatriot
When benefits can not be conveniently paid through debt, the Federal Reserve makes it possible to simply print Federal Reserve Notes, as "money substitutes" to monetize any shortfalls. Inflation is said to be the cruelest tax. What has the Federal Reserve done to the value of your dollars? Click the link and see for yourself.

$1.oo 1977-1981 under Carter with inflation = $1.50

$1.oo 1981-1989 under Reagan with inflation = $1.36

$1.oo 1989-1993 under Bush Sr. with inflation = $1.17

$1.oo 1993-2001 under Clinton with inflation = $1.22

$1.oo 2001-2005 under George W Bush with inflation = $1.10


Clearly Ronald Reagan turned the tide away from Carters disaster.
79 posted on 11/18/2005 9:45:28 AM PST by TheForceOfOne
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To: HopefulPatriot; ElkGroveDan; bitt; NRA2BFree
Would any of you be kind enough to share your thoughts about the comments or questions raised above?

I will say only this. The Republican Party shall have another Ronald Reagan when it deserves such a profoundly inspiring and principled leader. Right now, the Party is overrun with Democrat-grade RINOs to the point that Conservatives, not Liberals, are maligned when the Liberal agenda fails under the Republican banner.

Ronald Reagan was once a Democrat. This much is true. And when he became a Republican, he remarked that he did not leave the Democrat Party, the Democrat Party left him. And in that sentiment, today's Republican Party — with its runaway spending, backdoor amnesty for lawbreaking invaders, inability to use its majority in Congress to any real effect, stand up for the rights of the unborn, and lack of will to stand up to the unions — has truly left Ronald Reagan.

FRiends and patriots, unless we reclaim our party as a Conservative and Constitutional Originalist bastion against encroaching socialism and Leftist radicalism, we will never have another Ronald Reagan.

And that is all I will say on the matter.

80 posted on 11/18/2005 10:23:21 AM PST by Prime Choice (Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.)
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