Posted on 06/08/2004 6:10:47 PM PDT by anncoulteriscool
Edited on 06/08/2004 6:15:29 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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From his Pacific Rim Grave REAGAN1 will be re-electing BUSH2 back to Washington, D.C.
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The last laugh he will have is that the huge outpouring of love will counteract anything these desperate libs can say. People can only be fooled so long and then the truth comes out. I just hope that the Gipper can see all of this love.
Amen.
"I hope you're all Republicans."
That's my favorite Reagan one-liner. Any guy that can joke like that after being shot is one tough sob.
Tax cuts worked then and lookee here they are working now. I wonder when Bush is going to have a commercial saying that.
Peggy Noonan is one of her book talks about how when Reagan was inaugerated it was a very cloudy day but just when reagan began his speech the sun game out from behind the clouds.
Push this metaphor a little further and we understand the left's fear of the 2nd Amendment. They equate mankind with chimpanzees.
Peggy Noonan is one of her book talks about how when Reagan was inaugerated it was a very cloudy day but just when reagan began his speech the sun came out from behind the clouds.
Reagan could really put an edge on his humor. In the California governor's race he took note of some protesters with saying " I saw group that carried a sign that said --Make love not war--. By their looks, they were not capable of doing either." Those kinds of liberals couldn't take a joke and it he knew it. He also know that they would be too stoned on Election day to go vote.Somebody said today the his favorite target was Gorbachev and Gorby didn't mind.
Mine was "We begin bombing in five minutes".
The way I see it, Reagan thought that intelligence was important, but it was not the most important thing. To Reagan, human freedom and truth were more important.
In a way, it takes a lot of intelligence to know the true value and limitations of intelligence. Reagan was able to achieve this higher level of intelligence.
Liberals, on the other hand, think that intelligence is all that matters. As a result, they're one notch below Reagan on the brain scale. It's the reason why Reagan was able to defeat them every step of the way.
Perhaps it is simpler than that. People of limited intellect have to make simple issues appear complex in order to feel smart. People of true intellect can pull simple truth out of complex situations.
Take for example Lincoln's address at Gettysburg. He captured everything that needed saying in a speech that takes maybe a minute or less.
Take for another example, George W. Bush's sparse but overwhelming words at the site of the WTC with that megaphone in his hands. "Can you hear me? [cheer] Well, I can hear you... and the people that brought these buildings down will hear from ALL of us soon!". In that one simple moment, the whole hideous 'compexity' of the moment was boiled down to simple truth that changed the focus of a nation. And hear from us, they did. In spades.
Simple, really. :-)
Yup. Reagan subscribed to the K.I.S.S principle: Keep It Simple, Stupid. It's a principle his opponents were too dumb to adopt for themselves.
Another classic. There's a rock station here in town that used to play that as an intro piece.
My fave is the one from the open mike radio address about bombing Russia, but this one tops the list also:
"Since I came to the White House, I've gotten two hearing aids, had a colon operation, a prostate operation, skin cancer, and I've been shot. Funny thing is, I never felt better."
Also read this yesterday from the 10th anniversary of the Heritage Foundation.
"It's wonderful for Nancy and me to be here tonight and see old friends like Joe Coors. Actually, I was a little surprised by the warmth of Joe's introduction. I'm not sure how many of you know this, but there's a certain coolness between Joe and me tonight. I guess maybe that's my fault. When I arrived at the reception here I said, “Joe, it's been a long, hard day in the Oval Office, but now it's Miller time.” [Laughter] That's when he showed me his Mondale button. [Laughter]
Seriously, though, where are those Democratic candidates with their grandiose solutions now that we need them? The America's Cup race, for example. Now, there was a problem that could have been solved with more money and a lot of wind. [Laughter]"
Read the whole speech here:
http://www.reagansheritage.org/reagan/html/reagan10_03_83.shtml
This is one of my other favorite Reagan jokes:
How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Was it Reagan - "It's not that our liberal friends know so much - it's just that so much of it isn't true"
Or something like that.
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