[Reagan Renaissance]

Part II will follow next week. Each new article will be indexed with links to prior threads. Welcome and thank you for your participation. Our goal is the Reagan Renaissance.

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[Imagine]

Ping Me Please....

[Only1choice____Freedom]

If you look throughout history you'll see an interesting pattern.
God has a plan.
He is going to see it through.
His people have always made it.
Sometimes just by the skin of their teeth, but he has provisions.
America is part of that plan.
He will continue with or without America.
In seeing the plan, you have an invitation to participate.
Look for where you see his hand in motion and move yourself there.
You will see amazing things - miracles.

In Gore missing the election, America dodged another bullet. If Bush was not president, we would be in a real world of hurt right now. (And I mean that literly) God has always had his hand on our shoulder. He is watching out for us now. God is setting up America for great things. We need to be ready. We really need to clean up our courts and it can really happen in our lifetime if we work on it. I don't know Bush's plan but I can make some assumptions that are logical. We can be optimistic about the future if we remember that is really is in God's hands. Just look at the past. He did not bring us to this point just to drop us.

[massadvj]

By the time we finish this series, some of you will share my belief that America will be unlikely to survive either the election of another Democrat to the Whitehouse or the recovery of both houses of Congress by the Democrats

This should be a neat trick, since Republican control of all three branches has so far yielded:

Expanded federal role in education
Massive increase in farm subsidies
Campaign Finance Reform
Tarriffs on steel and agricultural products
Tax refunds to people who don't pay taxes
Prescription drug benefit for Medicare (pending)
Federal budgets that have exceeded our economic growth rate every single year, even after accounting for defense

If this is conservatism, please count me out. I don't remember anything this radical happening when we had divided government. Sure, there was Hillarycare, but it failed. Today's Republicans are likely to dust it off, a call it their own and go ahead and implement it.

Please, please let's go back to stalemated and impotent government. The power has corrupted the party.

[Eaker]

Please add me to your ping list.

[ladyinred]

Yet another one who wishes to be added to the ping list I hope you will create.

[woodyinscc]

Please add me to your ping list. Thank you

[snopercod]

The battle to save America is not a political battle, it is a Philosophical battle. At the risk of offending just about everybody, this is the way I see it (emphasis mine):

To rush into politics on an intellectual shoestring, to posture as a champion of freedom, to get into power by cashing in on the people’s hope and despair, then to offer them, for inspiration and guidance, nothing better than the old religion-family-tradition stuff – the stuff that has lost the world to communism – is so dark a betrayal that those guilty of it deserve what they get. They do not merely lose, they disillusion the people, they discredit the ideas of a free society and thus assist the victory of statism.... So much for today’s conservatives, “Libertarians,” and sundry third- fourth- or tenth-party organizers.

--Ayn Rand, A Last Survey, Part II (The last article in her Ayn Rand Letter), January-February, 1976

The one sentence highlighted above explains why the republican party is so fractured and disillusioned. We keep fighting to get these guys elected, only to find out that they like bigger government and less freedom just like the other guys.

[AAABEST]

Even though I hesitate to get on yet another ping list, I'll try yours. This seems rather interesting.

[Sir Gawain]

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[Sabertooth]

Nice post. Looking forward to more. Ping list, please.

[Tauzero]

"On the other hand, Al Gore got over a million more votes than Bush, proving that the voters got it wrong. George Bush was President that day because the Founders got it right; the Constitution saved us again."

The Founders did get it right, but us modern folk haven't.

From an engineering perspective, this modern single point of failure is bad design.

[Sparta]

Add me to your ping list please

[schu]

Please put me on your ping list, thanks very much.

schu