[yankeedame]

The and are mine. - YD

[No_Outcome_But_Victory]

I'm convinced that the passing of President Reagan is yet another God-given opportunity to see the evil that he fought valiently in crystal clarity.

Yes, it is outrageous that these people say and act this way. They are fools, and their way of thinking is going to pass away.

That Shining City will always stand as long as we believe in Reagan's dream, and make it so.

[skeeter]

and have said so to several Gingrich sucking Reagan worshipping d*ckheads.

Oh please Mr DU toughguy speak these words to me - they will be the last at least several of your teeth will ever hear.

[cripplecreek]

To spin a line from "It's a wonderfull life"

"everytime a democrat spews, a conservative is born"

[Blood of Tyrants]

Like I have said before, I don't want to silence these clowns. I want their hate-twisted faces in front of every television camera spewing venemous malevolence out of their vile pus-holes every single day so that America can see EXACTLY WHO is supporting the DemocRats.

[SMARTY]

With their comments about the death of the former president, the Democrats demonstrate once again the truly disgusting behavior common to their party and its members. It has always been obvious to me... this coarseness of theirs reverting to the regular and long practice of character defamation and the mindless ferocity which passes for politics with them and is carried out with absolute impunity.

[Eagle of Liberty]

The Democommunist Ubersocialists will stop at nothing. Too bad they couldn't put that excessive hating energy toward the real enemies of America. I think even I could come up with one good thing to say about Clinton when he passes......thinking......thinking....

Okay, maybe not.

[piasa]

To the not very wise dude from DU who said : "F--k you Ronnie, here's to ya pal. see ya in hell"

Do I really need to point out that Reagan won't be there when you arrive?

[Petronski]

Mopaul is the DUmpster's resident ass-freak, complete with bareassed yellow smilies. He's bitter because all of his Haitian boytoys were killed by GRID, er, AIDS.

[GSWarrior]

Reagan actually died in 2002. The Republican political machine hid the news, kept his body on ice and only now released this information in order to have maximum positive effect on the Bush campaign.*

[society-by-contract]

the day he took office was the most depressing day of my life

The state is far too important to this fellow.

[navygal]

a friend of mine who considers herself a democrat, told my husband after she saw this on DU she will never vote democrat again.

[SMARTY]

Democraticunderground.com

???

And that's another thing, what does an organization which OWNS the national media, directs and manufactures public opinion in the US, IS the entertainment industry and has long since forced the public schools to its own agenda....I say, what does such an organization need with an 'underground'???

[Poohbah]

Do you remember November 9,1989? Do you remember thousands of West Berliners waiting on their side of the wall with bottles of champagne while East Germans were breaking through?

I remember crying with my fellow NCOs at the MCAS Beaufort enlisted club.

We'd all had friends die in aircraft crashes, accidental shootings, and falling overboard from the ship...

And we were seeing the victory played out before us.

It was the longest war...and the most important.

I still remember watching Reagan's Berlin speech in 1987.

"Mister Gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!"

With those few words, the world changed. I remember shivering. It's not often that you get see a moment where the world changes for the better.

[Dilbert56]

I believe the American worker and the capitalist economic system made major contributions to winning the Cold War. We could have guns and butter; the Soviets had to choose. President Reagan's poker hand was a full house. He was the visionary to conceive the Cold War as winnable and had the guts to call the Soviet's hand.

The Iceland summit, where he refused to give away SDI, was probably the tipping point. To Gorbachev, the cost of staying in the arms race became "too rich for my blood" and he folded.

[chimera]

Let them wallow in their hatred. It will destroy them in the end. They lash out now at the memory of a great mean because the light of his greatness makes their own pitiful and meaningless existence clear to them. Those who spew hatred at the memory of Ronald Reagan will only be ciphers in the course of history, while the shadow of Reagan and his good works will loom large.

We must remember that the legacy of Ronald Reagan will not be cast by whatever we may say here, or in Washington in the coming days, or even in the words of the books of history yet to be written. It will be knit into the hearts of people who live in freedom, of the countless millions who formerly lived in the darkness and despair of tyranny but who now live in the light of the beacon of liberty. As long as freedom endures, as long as the value and dignity of a single human life is honored, as long as individual achievement, liberty, and equality are cherished, the legacy of Reagan lives on. I can never hope to achieve the greatness that Reagan personified, nor match his achievements in a lifetime of labor, but it is enough, somehow, to know that such greatness lived in my time.

[PISANO]

The LEFTISTS can't possibly dislike RR more than I dislike X42, however if I am still around at his death, I will refrain from saying anything about him for I will have nothing good to say, and I would NOT want to hurt those that loved him. Demonstrating just one significant difference between LEFTISTS and CONSERVATIVES.

[hattend]

Also ... were you listening to Prairie Home Companion your local "public radio" station on Saturday? It's a live broadcast, you know. In the middle of that broadcast Garrison Keillor told the audience that Ronald Reagan had died. You could hear liberals in the audience cheering and clapping. Class act, those Democrats.

I would be in jail this morning for assault had I been there...and a few of these classy people would have had a bloody nose. Wonder if Keillor said something like, "shame on you"

God Bless Ronald Reagan...Rest in Peace.

[linn37]

BTW CNN has a link where you can leave your thoughts on Reagan I have left two so far,one at work and one on this computer and neither one of them have shown up. As of 10:00 last night they still only have one page of comments.Anyone else want to see if they can leave a message and get it posted?

[texasbluebell]

Just last week Thomas Friedman at the New York Times wrote an article giving credit for setting in motion the chain of events that brought down the Soviet Union to George Bush (41), to Brent Scowcroft and James Baker, and to European leaders such as Margaret Thatcher and Francois Mitterrand. There was no mention of Ronald Reagan. Was this carelessness? Forgetfulness? Or was it an intentional effort from this New York Times writer to deny Reagan his legacy?

I guess Friedman knows better than Thatcher herself then. Rush was just talking about a dinner to which he was invited, the guest of honor was Margaret Thatcher.

Rush asked her a question, re: the media claiming that Gorbachev was responsible for the fall of the wall. She became very stern, was incensed at the notion that anyone but RR was the impetus for this.

[ThomasMore]

"see ya in hell"

mopaul...Satan is the only one you'll see in hell.