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Again, yes, Reagan did away with the RAT muzzle known as the Fairness Doctrine. However, Mr. Reagan would have never held office if not for the incompetence of Jim-mah Carter and the elements of the conservative core existent in the American public that Reagan touched. No conservative principles in the bedrock American - no Reagan presidency. We can all play the game of chicken or the egg, but the conservative movement is more of a mosaic of effort and dividend.

In this sense, as I've said before, Mr. Reagan did well. However, when things are shaken out in history, I think the populist award will go to Rush for awakening the political consciousness of the average American and articulating the philosophies of Americanism that many held but could not define or share with others in a rational way. In addition, Rush defined and matured the medium of talk radio. For all his vaunted intelligence, Newt was a failure in bridging the communication barrier between Washington and the common man. In fact, Newt's CV might even be something less than conservative.

Washington princes owe all of America their laurels and privilege but America owes Rush it's gratitude.

Your attempts to rewrite the history of the conservative movement in America falls flat. Period. And your effort to undermine the Reagan legacy is truly sickening.

Reagan won two historic landslide elections, turned around a faltering economy and returned America to its military and leadership greatness. Gingrich, Armey and Lott stood with Reagan in the 1980`s to halt the march of liberalism. Rush was nowhere to be found.

Rush has never been elected to any position of public trust. Whatever Rush has done, doesn't begin to compare to the achievements and accomplishments of Ronald Reagan.

From the mid-1960`s, throughout the 1970`s, 1980`s and into the early 1990`s, Reagan was the active conservative leader in America. Your historic revisionism is ugly. Especially on conservative Free Republic.