Tomorrow is Ronald Reagan's Birthday

[Alissa]

Tomorrow Ronald Reagan will turn 92 years old. I just sent a birthday gift to the Reagan Ranch. If anyone else would like to do this, you can do it on-line by clicking HERE.

[cmsgop]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I LOVE YOU RON AND NANCY!!!!

[Hazzardgate]

GIPPER BUMP!

I miss the Greatest American Hero :(

[tet68]

Happy Birthday Mr. President, we miss you.

[steveo]

God bless you and keep you safe Mr. President.

[ChadGore]

Happy Birthday !

[Capitalism2003]

I was born in 1980 and I've seen many of his speeches replayed on TV. I've also read a few books about him and learned of all of the policies he supported. Reagan was just plain awesome...He did everything the liberals told him NOT to do...and didn't support anything they wanted...from the USSR, to the massive tax reductions...Reagan was a true liberal nightmare, and the savior of this country. We need more men like him. Happy Birthday Big Ron!

[reagan_fanatic]

Words cannot describe how much in debt this nation and indeed the World is for the leadership and vision you provided back then.

May your place in Heaven be secure.

Happy Birthday, Ronnie!

[Captiva]

Happy Birthday Mr. President!

http://www.claremont.org/writings/030205hayward.html

Happy Birthday Mr. Reagan
Ronnie, We Hardly Knew You

By Steven F. Hayward

Posted February 5, 2003

This article is adapted from a work in progress, The Age of Reagan: Lion at the Gate, 1980-1989.



As the nation marks Ronald Reagan's 92nd birthday on February 6, it is worth noting that a subtle revision of Reagan's reputation is taking place among the nation's intellectual elite. Reagan's deepening popularity with Americans and his success in office are now too overwhelming to be denied. One-by-one, the stock criticisms made of Reagan throughout his career are falling by the wayside.

One sign of the times is the December issue of Esquire magazine, which named Reagan "the greatest living American." This is notable because Esquire published numerous anti-Reagan articles in the 1970s and 1980s, including one by Richard Reeves in 1979 entitled "Why Reagan Won't Make It." Today, Reeves is at work on a book explaining why Reagan did make it. In 1979 Reeves dismissed Reagan, saying "Reagan seems to be a nostalgia figure whose time has passed; he looks like the past, he talks about the past." But now it is liberals like Reeves who are sputtering about the past and trying to explain why Reagan's legacy dominates the present, so much so that the New York Times' Bill Keller recently wrote that the George W. Bush administration can be said to represent Ronald Reagan's third term.

*snip*

[McGavin999]

Happy Birthday Gipper. I hope that somehow, deep inside, you know that we all still love and respect you. May God grant you peace.

[martin_fierro]

[TAdams8591]

To one of the greatest presidents of all time and to the one who will always occupy a very special place in my heart.

Happy Birthday President Reagan!!! = )

[MinorityRepublican]

I always wondered how do you do that thing with the picture?

[cmsgop]

I was born in 1970, and remember in 1981 living in McLean,VA when Reagan was shot. Traffic stood still! Everybody glued to their TV's. Dems and GOP Loved this man for the most part! A True American Hero!

[Gamecock]

Happy Birthday Mr. President! </misty eyes>

[RightWinger]

Happy birthday Ronald Reagan.
We love you & miss you.

[Alissa]

That is so wonderful. I'll be bookmarking this for sure!

[speedy]

He turned this country around in ways those too young to remember can not imagine. Bless him forever.

[mombonn]

Thank you for morning in America, Mr. President. God bless you and Nancy. You'd be proud of President George W. Bush!

Twice in my life I've been privileged to be led by truly remarkable men.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Its wonderful to be around people from this era. My dad was born in '06 and would've been 97 in January. They, and those just in front of them fought the second world war.