Posted on 06/27/2005 4:51:41 AM PDT by Stepan12
I agree with you on that list..
DU on TILT alert!!
True.
But without a George Washington, there would be no United States to worry about, possibly a Monarchy instead of a Republic, and a good part of our Federal Executive Structure was created by Washington.
At any rate, that's my thinking.
But I agree totally with your assessment of Reagan's significance. Carter's re-election would have been a national catastrophy. His Secretary of Defense Zbignew Brizinky(Spelling? Does he have a green card?) had the nerve to recently criticize Bush's efforts in the Middle East after the catastrophy they orchestrated in Iran.
Washington was a giant. A bigger than life figure in every way - the right man at the right time. Without him the Revolution would have very well collapsed. Without him the new nation could very well have descended into anarchy or monarchy. God bless His Excellancy.
Teddy Roosevelt was also a figure bigger than life - scholar, biologist, rancher, cowboy, lawman, military man, boxer, martial artist, President, naval expert - he embodied everything that was and should be, great about America.
Ronald Reagan - the only man in American politics willing to stand up to the evil empire, a man who believed government should serve the people and not the other way around. Another cowboy in the very best sense of the term.
God bless Ronald Reagan. The vituperative hatred expressed by the leftist crypto-Bolsheviks toawrds him is a measure of his greatness and goodness.
BTTT
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