The Reagan family will attest to the 'theft of honor', no?
However;
I got the privelege to hear Rudoplh Giuliani speak this week, at a Peter Lowe/ Zig Ziglar motivational seminar in Portland, OR. He spoke about leadership. His example: Ronald Reagan, and how he had strong personal beliefs to guide him. When he spoke on how Reagan didn't look to the polls for his opinions, "unlike someone else,..."you know who I'm talking about, right?" You could tell that there was a general agreement in the audience with that statement. 20,000 people cheered for Reagan, when his name was mentioned.
The media (fortunately) has failed to steal Pres. Reagans honor!
I've been to a coupla those confabs myself...
"He spoke about leadership. His example: Ronald Reagan, and how he had strong personal beliefs to guide him."
I believe that--deep down--Dubyuh's got similar beliefs, but he seems overly-influenced by politico folks who think compromising with the Leftists is a good move fer broadening the GOP electoral base. Conversely, I believe thoroughly explaining conservatism and the inherent benefits of a limited Federal Government, then avidly fighting for domestic legislation that gets us closer to that reality will attract the votes required to implement a conservative agenda.
"20,000 people cheered for Reagan, when his name was mentioned. The media (fortunately) has failed to steal Pres. Reagans honor!"
Good fer Portland...I know a majority of Virginians still hold Reagan in very high esteem...MUD
The media (fortunately) has failed to steal Pres. Reagans honor!Amen !! ...
CBS will not broadcast THE REAGANS
on November 16 and 18. This decision
is based solely on our reaction to
seeing the final film, not the controversy
that erupted around a draft of the script.
Exactly. And neither they, nor anyone else, ever will.
The media (fortunately) has failed to steal Pres. Reagan’s honor!
One of the most meaningful sites on the internet: reagan2020
From that site:
Reagan was the first -- and last -- modern conservative President of the United States. That fact alone accounts for the divergent recountings of his terms as leader of the free world. Members of the Political Left still revile Reagan, while simultaneously dismissing the accomplishments of his terms in office as if the major changes he envisioned and championed would have transpired without his leadership.
During Reagan's tenure, those from the Left celebrated the balance of power and proclaimed the moral equivalence of the United States and the Soviet Union, content to live in a world divided into camps of the slave and the free. And few dared dream that this often precarious and edgy state of affairs could end in the span of their lives. But together with a band of courageous allies and inspired aides, Reagan adopted policies that eventually brought down the Iron Curtain, making the world both safer and freer than anyone could have hoped when the perilous decade of the 1980's began. In the process, Reagan demonstrated irrefutably that centralized power and bureaucratic planning cannot be harnessed to serve the public good. And the Left cannot forgive Reagan for that -- much less acknowledging or congratulating his victory.
But that was merely the last and most significant of Reagan's battles with the Left, and understanding his past is key to deciphering the reasons for his later successes. Reagan survived and won an early variant of today's culture war, when he opposed the influence of pro-Communist members of his Hollywood community. From that conflict, Ronald Reagan discerned the real outlines of the fight ahead, becoming familiar with the opponents he would face down, and coming to his own deeper recognition of the power of freedom.
Political commentators today frequently remark that conservatives have been lost since Reagan's departure from the presidency, and Republican presidential candidates in the intervening twelve years have struggled over claims to the "Reagan mantle." Such comments and squabbles miss the central point. Reagan's political genius arose not from his congenial personality, or from his acting training, or from his leadership skills, but rather from the strength and truth of his ideas. Longing for "another Reagan" -- or waiting for such a leader to arrive -- are vain wishes, which actually dishonor the memory of our beloved conservative mentor. The profound ideas that guided Reagan grew from his faith in the abilities of free people and his belief that our Constitution's model government of ordered liberties and federally distributed powers was the best on earth.
In domestic policies, Reagan introduced a program to bring our nation back into closer conformance with the Constitution's mandates. He called this program New Federalism. But these policies have been overturned since Reagan's departure from office.
We do not need another Ronald Reagan as a leader, because his ideals and principles may chart America's course for the new century -- if we will but follow them still. If our country returns to the path of New Federalism that Reagan envisioned for our future, with God's guidance and blessings we can yet become that "shining city on a hill" among the powers of the earth, that Ronald Reagan reminded us the United States could be.
