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Was it really 24 years ago? My first election as a member of the Republican Party. I had campaigned for Reagan in 1980 but I was a “Democrat For Reagan”. I’d first registered to vote in 1974 and nobody registered as a Republican that year. Then in 1982 came the nuclear freeze movement and the Democratic Party’s statement that they would no longer back any candidate who opposed abortion. Those two facts made me a Republican. Arnold Schwarzenegger and John McCain made me an independent.
When you think about it, you realize that there are people who will vote in this coming election who have never lived under a really good president. I am grateful that Ronald Reagan was our leader. He feed a billion people from The Philippines to Nicaragua to Poland and deserves a greater place in history than he has been granted to date.
Under FDR, Truman and Eisenhower we had three giants. The the next three were flawed giants. After that they have all been largely nothing except for Ronald Reagan. If the next election produces anything else it will be from McCain putting a good man on the ticket and then graciously leaving the earth plane after he is elected (which i suspect there is a good chance of his doing).