Posted on 10/19/2005 4:34:36 AM PDT by ajolympian2004
That is because the socialists reach their goals by incrementalism.
The pot has been slow to boil but it certainly is some hot water we are in.
LOL! Just proves what I've long suspected: Jimmy Carter's presidential career was entirely forgetable!
My parents (both very conservative) discussed politics at the table. We watched the news and I would hear my dad harumph at Tom Brokaw (thus instilling a skeptical view of the MSM at an early age). They never really talked to me about politics or the Constitution or the ideas of limited government, but I picked up quite a bit listening to their conversations. Combined with Reagan: - voila, a future Freeper was conceived.
I couldn't imagine growing up with a lib parent ...
Not likely, I thought . . .
When I was very young, when Reagan was first elected, I remember hearing folks talk about him and run him down. My teachers and my peers (obviously just parrotting their parents) and people on the news. At that age I didn't know how to argue or how they could say or believe the things they said.
When I was in high school, of course, my peers who were blossoming communists and my leftist teachers absolutely despised him, but finally I was old enough and informed enough that I could understand that some people just have a liberal gentic defect and aren't worth paying attention to.
I always thought he was a hero and represented what is best about our country. When I was little, Reagan was a cowboy leading America against evil in the world, and I loved him for it.
I am a RR convert, too. I started listening more closely to this man in 1979 when my liberal buddies were laughing at him.
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Amen Ronnie! I wish another candidate with Ronnie's balls would come forward to put the Dims in their place...
Great post. Made my day.
Thanks
You are welcome! Mine too!
My all-time favorite RR quote was one he made when he was Governor. Something like "The other day there were some young people protesting against me holding signs that said 'Make Love Not War'. Trouble is -- they looked like they didn't know how to do either!"
Those were the days...
I would be very grateful if only 37 cents out of every dollar I earn went to taxes.
My how times have changed.
This is a wonderful, tho short, thread and a great speech. Only got thru about half so far. Just reading these comments I'm beginning to really understand the effect Ronald Reagan had on youth and why so many thousands came out to pay their last respects
Sounds like we had similar experiences. I date my obsession with politics and my discovery that what I was had a name ("conservative") to Reagan's 1976 campaign against that quinessential do-nothing RINO, Gerald Ford.
I prayed and hoped for a miracle the night they did the role call but he narrowly lost, and I will admit that I shed a few tears, fearing that it was America's last chance, and that we had missed it.
Thank God, we had another chance 4 years later, and the rest is history.
Reagan wasn't perfect, but we knew at the time that it was probably the best we would get in our lifetimes, and I think we were right.
I had the privilege of raising my hand and taking my oath as an Air Force officer while Reagan was still President. The morale of the military had never been so high, and has never been so high since.
To the extent that W has been successful, it has been by emulating Reagan. To the extent that he has failed, it has been by going another direction that masquerades as "conservatism..."
Around the time of this speech, I was lucky enough to have my father take me to hear Ronald Reagan at the local G.E. plant. Up to that point I had no particular interest in current events. RR gave me a thorough course in economics and government in that one speech. He was breathtakingly clear, as in the speech you've reprinted here. Fast forward. My daughter was born on RR's birthday in 1983. She has always loved him, and wept the day he died.
No doubt! The numbers Reagan tosses out in this speech and identifies as "problems" would, in my way of thinking, make for a good sized government (of course, I'm not allowing for inflation because I like my governments small in cheap).
Excellent speech, thanks for posting.
That was a the capstone of a fabulous day of campaigning for Reagan/Bush...
One of my best memories...
That is amazing that you were there at the Cincinnati Convention Center back in 1980. Another great memory I have from that night is standing outside after the event and watching Reagan's limo go right by and him waving to us only a few feet away.
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