That was "the right stuff". I think, as long as we're through the Looking Glass, that Reagan was too good: we've had such an economic and technological explosion that many of us modern conservatives don't remember the threats we face anymore.
Everything is focus-grouped, think-tanked, polled, and ultimately nothing results while the MSM screams.
Our ancestors were made of better stuff. I'll be the first to plead Guilty as Charged.
The nation seems soft, we're too busy and all that seems far away. For some the 9/11 memory is already wearing off. They don't realize that today it's just a plane flight away from our doorstep. The Republicans need some real leaders to step up and quit worrying about what the latest focus group is thinking.