You have said a lot, and it's all good. We have a conservative in Bill Simon. He may not be perfect, but he's with us on virtually every issue. He may have stumbled once or twice, but he's still a conservative and he still is head and shoulders about Gray Davis -- and Richard Riordan and Bill Jones.
I'm thinking about posting this speech for all to read. In the meantime, here's the link.
A Time For Choosing Speech by Ronald Reagan
One quote:
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.There's another Reagan speech that is a MUST READ for conservatives. Many of you probably have never heard of it. The Creative Society. This speech was given by Reagan when he was running for governor 36 years ago.
A quote:
Those who talk of complex problems, requiring more government planning and more control, in reality are taking us back in time to the acceptance of rule of the many by the few. Time to look to the future. We've had enough talk--disruptive talk--in America of left and right, dividing us down the center. There is really no such choice facing us. The only choice we have is up or down--up, to the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down, to the deadly dullness of totalitarianism.It's hard to pick just one quote, so I suggest that everyone read the speech. Reagan says, "The administration in Sacramento is guilty of a leadership gap. Unwilling, or unable, to solve the problems of California." Is it any different today?
As Edmund Burke said, "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Or worse, vote third party which only helps your enemies.
We are the party of Reagan, love him or hate him. We are not perfect, but we are far better than the Democrats. We have room to improve, but if the conservatives bail to a third party we will never improve.
Bill Simon is our hope and opportunity and will make a fine conservative Governor. We won't agree with him 100% of the time, but we can't even agree with each other 100% of the time! Let's band together and fight the war -- the Democrats are fighting the war, and we're killing our own with "friendly fire".