Posted on 02/06/2008 7:23:02 AM PST by PurpleMan
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children what it was once like in the United States when men were free.”
(Excerpt) Read more at texasrainmaker.com ...
As long as conservatives are around, the Reagan legacy will be alive and well. Have some faith.
>>Mr. Reagan, I do hope you had not been spining in your grave the last day with what has been going on in the house, the GOP that you had built.
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It may all look like a done deal. But the McCain-Kennedy bill giving amnesty to illegal aliens looked like a done deal two years ago — until the public realized the truth behind the spin and brought that sell-out to a screeching halt.<<
We need to remember not just the policies but also the tactics. President Reagan was clear that Republicans should be strong on policies but avoid personal attacks...
And he stood on the podium and endorsed Gerald Ford in 1976.
And he took George Bush into the administration even after Bush called Reagan’s plan “voodoo economics.”
Policies are important but so are tactics and the character reflected by those tactics.
It’s my birthday as well. Did I luck out or what?
Also Axl Rose of Guns n’ Roses
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