Posted on 10/27/2010 5:29:00 PM PDT by markomalley
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Today is the 46th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s famous speech, “A Time for Choosing.”
The thing that struck me as I watched it again was how relevant its message still is for today’s America. Just as in 1964, we have a president who says “we must accept a greater government activity in the affairs of the people.” And just as then, we hear the voices of those on the left who claim the profit motive has become “outdated” and the Constitution “outmoded.” Back then liberals aimed to build a Great Society in which the state looked after us “from the cradle to the grave.” Today’s “fundamental transformation” doesn’t have a similarly catchy name, but its aims are no different from those of Johnson’s central planners.
And so once again we face an election in which the fundamental issue is “whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.”
Reagan believed that in the end, Americans would always choose liberty over tyranny. He called it our “destiny,” our American birth right. Well, this coming Tuesday, you and I have another rendezvous with destiny. America, let’s go and win one for the Gipper.
- Sarah Palin |
2 great American icons...adding John Wayne in the photo would have been truly the trifecta!
Hear, Hear! Go get ‘em Sarah! I think what really frightens the Left about next week is how it sets up 2012 for her as perhaps the GOP’s front-runner with a Tea Party wind in her sails.
Chris Christie would be the best choice...this guy is thoroughly capable of taking on the entitlement class, the unions, and the extremists. He would be the dims worst nightmare.
Chris Christie would be the best choice...this guy is thoroughly capable of taking on the entitlement class, the unions, and the extremists. He would be the dims worst nightmare.
Chris Christie would be the best choice...this guy is thoroughly capable of taking on the entitlement class, the unions, and the extremists. He would be the dims worst nightmare.
My belief is that if those who treasure liberty and who firmly believe in preserving it would use the very succinct and clear words of America's Founders about the nature of liberty and tyranny, even our dumbed-down generations would understand their ideas.
The Founders debated great principles. They did not get bogged down in issues-based arguments. So-called "progressives" can be defeated in debates about principles, because they do not have in-depth understanding of them. They win arguments about "issues."
Conservatives must begin to have principles-based debate, and this is a principles-based moment in the history of America.
It's not about health care. It's not about the auto industry, or the banking establishment. It's about liberty for individuals in a society versus tyrannical government control over the livelihoods and life and death decisions of each of those citizens.
Can anyone who reads Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Madison, or any other Founders actually believe their Constitution allows the principles of the Declaration to be violated in such a way by those elected to positions of power in government?
Any citizen whose passion is liberty should not be tricked into accepting such "compromises" of their liberty. There is a time and place when liberty is so threatened that, on behalf of our posterity, we should stand and declare to our elected officials in both Parties:
"This is a matter of principle. It is not negotiable. Stop taking away our Creator-endowed rights to be free to succeed or fail. Stop your arrogance in believing your were elected to take what we work hard to earn and "redistribute" it in the name of "compassionate conservatism" (R) or "economic justice" (D). Such redistribution of our earnings is neither compassionate nor does it do "justice."! It is "legalized theft," which our Constitution was never intended to protect.
Whether future generations enjoy the liberty we inherited depends on what we do now.
He is also anti guns so he would be the gun owners worst nightmare too
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He is also anti guns so he would be the gun owners worst nightmare too
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Gun owning illegal aliens would be torn . . .
She is exactly correct that we are back where we were.
The stuffed elephant in the room is this: we are back where we were because almost ALL of Reagan’s gains and accomplishments have been frittered away, dismantled or mothballed during the watch of the kinder, gentler, compassionate conservatives. Deliberately and by design.
We must dig out the Rockefeller roots this time. Cutting is not enough to be rid of the weed. If we don’t, years later we will be back here AGAIN.
You’re exactly right. The left has been infiltrating the lofty reaches of this country for a hundred years, and now that we’re onto them, we will do whatever it takes to pull them out, root and branch.
Never let the RINOs compromise our Constitutional Republic again. It is they who have enabled the leftist disease here, and they need broad-spectrum antibiotics, stat.
No, he wouldn't. He might prove troublesome for them, but anyone who actually believes that anyone besides Sarah Palin would be the "dims' worst nightmare" is a blind, ignorant imbecile. To put it politely.
How many formerly corrupt political colleagues has Governor Christie seen prosecuted and jailed since he became Governor? Oh, none? Okay.
How many multi-national major global corporations has he manhandled into sharing profits from his State's natural resources with the owners of those resurces, the citizens of his State? Oh, none again? Hmmmm...
Christie says many of the right things, but I know Sarah Palin. And Chris Christie is no Sarah Palin.
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BTTT
Christie enthusiastically supported Castle in Delaware-—that told me all I need to know about him.
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