This is something that needs to be hammered home. Having a cheerful tone while espousing the things in which you believe, especially if those things are correct, is powerful.
THREE the hard way.
This is something that needs to be hammered home. Having a cheerful tone while espousing the things in which you believe, especially if those things are correct, is powerful.
THREE the hard way.
"America is too great for small dreams" -- RR
A direct result of Nixon/RINO leadership. Other than lower taxes and national defense, they stand for nothing but, "We're not as bad as the Democrats." Witness the spending under Bush.
Six short years later, Ronald Reagan not only won the election by a surprising margin but also carried the Republicans into control of the Senate and helped them pick up 33 seats in the House.
I guess conservatism sells when an honest effort to explain it is made.
Thanks to the rise of Reagan Democrats and their conversion into Republicans, by 1994 we had enough candidates and enough potential voters to be competitive for the first time since the Great Depression.
No thanks to the "moderates" who think elections are bought with advertising money.
In all his campaigns, Reagan relied on a broad movement of activist supporters who surrounded and energized the campaign far beyond the reach of the official campaign structure. It was a very different model from the modern centrally controlled consultant-dominated system, and while it was far less efficient, it was far more effective.
This is where Bill Simon Really blew the California gubernatorial election in 2002. After winning the primary on the strength of a grass roots campaign, the CAGOP took over and killed the grass roots effort over the long summer when they should have been organizing. Simon went invisible for five months and the energy in his campaign died.
The New Majority "moderates" think that money buys elections. Reagan knew that empowering the grass roots with ideas not only wins elections, it effects substantive change.
Conservatives who hope to keep that majority should think long and hard about the lessons President Reagan taught us.
"Moderates" should think long and hard about the lessons Nixon taught them too.
Reagan was a majority of ONE!
The cowards in the congress that call themselves republicans can all take a one way trip to IRAN.
Take the dnc traitors with you and don;t let the door hit you on the way out.
I took the opportunity of the week-long remembrance to visit a number of websites and download the transcripts of Reagan's speeches and audios where they existed. I then saved them onto CD-Rs. I'm even giving the audio to my sister in a 3-CD set as a Christmas gift.
When you listen to the audios and read the speeches, you see the same thing spoken in all of them - America is the greatest country in the world, freedom is the most important export we have, faith in God is important for a society to function properly, peace is won by vanquishing foes not appeasing them, government is too big and taxes are too high. Simple points spoken over and over again.
The only thing that really changes are the topical jokes (or jokes making fun of his age if he didn't have enough topical material). But it's simply amazing (and I give large credit to Peggy Noonan for this) how often Reagan said essentially the same thing re-written just a little bit differently each time to fit the audience whether he was addressing the Congress, a campaign stop or a crowd in Berlin.
Reagan stood for faith, freedom, country and tax cuts. And the message sold for his 30 years of political life.
With all due respect to Mr. Gingrich, I think this article is being written ten years too late. In retrospect, the 1994 election really only showed us that the GOP was far more effective as an opposition party than they have been as a governing party.
I know the gipper was great.
But nobody ever talks about his inability to retain the GOP majority in the Senate in 1986.
How come this is overlooked?
