Posted on 11/03/2008 9:58:00 PM PST by Hanna548
This exact same speech could be given today. I can't believe it. NOTHING HAS CHANGED! This is unbelieveable!
Man I love Ronald Reagan
Excellent. I do wish someone would have made the person with the air horn swallow it.
How I miss that man. What a blessing he was for this nation. I really enjoyed watching the video.
I obviously have not followed all the young up and comers, but the only GOPer I can see that could lead a new conservative revolution is Bobby Jindal. I like Palin and it is possible she could do it, but I don’t know how this election will affect her...either win or lose. Even a McCain win leaves us with the need for the next generation leader. Palin will get a leg up with a win, but you never know how being VP treats you.
I also am not COMPLETELY sure she wants to go to the lengths it will take to build her own machine from scratch with a loss. It will come naturally with a win.
Other than those two....who has “it” ?
Ronaldus Maximus BIG BUMP!
So prophetic! Every word is still so true
today. God bless him with eternal peace
in God’s Heaven, and God bless and save
our precious America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_unhZVXaWQ&feature=related
I have a question. This speech was at the 1963 Republican Convention. President Reagan was giving the speech in support of Berry Goldwater, who was the first candidate I ever campaigned for. I was 16 years old. Goldwater and that speech of Reagan’s started the conservative movement.
Question is, what was the Republican party about before that?
What about Santorum *sp*
Kasich
This speech was at the 1963 Republican Convention.
The republican party before Reagan held no conservative tradition, other than a fundamental belief in state’s rights and fiscal prudence. Barry Goldwater was the electoral embodiment of the intellectual conservatism of National Review, which advanced the Russell Kirk notion of what conservatism really is:
The negation of secular ideologies [fascism, statism, communism, socialism, environmentalism, etc]. Individual liberty over state encroachment.
Works everytime its tried, and it was tried at the highest levels to enormous success from 1980 forward.
If there is a new conservative banner-bearer, a new Reagan, they probably will never show up.
The hatred shown by The Left will have convinced him that this nation isn’t worth it.
Those who forget history...
I miss Regan. My only hope is after 4 years of the Big O, we will get another Regan era.
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