ReGaining Regean

American Journalism Center ^ | November 23, 2009 | Sarah Carlsruh

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ReGaining Reagan

Sarah Carlsruh, November 23, 2009

Today, there are “far too many people saying ‘let’s move beyond Reagan,’” lamented Steve Hayward, author of The Age of Reagan and keynote speaker at Accuracy in Academia’s November 5th Author’s Night.

Reagan stuck to an unwavering and enduring set of ideals. Yet, liberals are trying to present a distorted picture of Reagan and make him into a proto-liberal, said Hayward. Some liberals embrace the 2nd Term Reagan as a man of peace, call his foreign policy “pretty good” while condemning the Reagan of domestic policy. In contrast, Hayward insisted that “it was the same Reagan from beginning to end.”

“Reagan had a central idea,” said Hayward, summing it up succinctly:

“unlimited government is a threat to individual liberty both in its vicious forms, like communist totalitarianism, but also in its supposedly benign forms like big government bureaucracy that we have here in this country.”

Hayward also spoke fondly of Reagan’s commitment to the Constitution, saying that “Reagan thought about [U.S.] problems in constitutional terms.” Hayward then said facetiously that the “our constitution may not be perfect but it’s better than the government we’ve got.”

President Reagan’s proposed amendments to the Constitution, which he called a taxpayer Bill of Rights, were in line with his condemnation of big government. His most well-known proposals included a balanced budget amendment (sorely needed today) and a line-item veto for the President. Also antithetical to the current administration’s philosophies were Reagan’s next three amendment proposals....

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"Welcome Back, Dad"

"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! This was Ronald Reagan at his best -- the same Ronald Reagan who made the address known now solely as "The Speech," which during the Goldwater campaign set the tone and the agenda for the rebirth of the traditional conservative movement that later sent him to the White House for eight years and revived the moribund GOP. Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time around."

~Michael Reagan, son of President Ronald Reagan