Ronald Reagan: Let Them Go Their Way

The American Conservative Union ^ | March 1, 1975 | Ronald Reagan

[suijuris]

Thanks 1900. Well wrtiien. You put into words what I've been thinking for a long time. My opinions are not based on Tuesdays election. To me the the past 8 to 10 years has been like watching a slow train wreck. I knew this was comming. It is incomprehensible to me that our elightened so-called conservative leaders could not see it. This country is headed for a world of $hit and most of the nation is sleeping. Unfortuately, I do not beleive we can ever turn it back. As you have said, we have lost our way.

[syriacus]

My gosh!! So much of this is RIGHT up to date.

[Plutarch]

Ronaldus Maximus!!! This is great writing; proof of intellect to match his ultimate greatness.

[BlackElk]

We have been orphaned by his death but we are ever re-energized and inspired by his memory and his words. There will be no "next Reagan" any more than there will be a next Washington or a next Robert E. Lee. God loves us yet and there will be others each with his or her own unique qualities, none perfect, but bearing the gifts needed when his or her time is at hand.

May God bless Ronald Reagan and all who worked to make him the president who destroyed the empire of the soviets with the power of his words and re-introduced our nation to the blessings and ideals of freedom.

[Nancee]

He is my FAVORITE President of all time!!

Nancee

[ntnychik]

This Reagan speech is balm for the soul.
No pastel shades, BOLD COLORS!

[GoLightly]

After reading the piece posted earlier today written by Senator Tom Coburn...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1735613/posts

I got pinged to it from the "Moral Absolutes".

[Senator Goldwater]

He was the first President I voted for. His election in 1980 was the first politcal event I paid attention to. He'll always be "the" President of my lifetime. I honor his memory and accomplishments.

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Same here. Cast my very first vote for him, and have voted for him ever since.

[mother22wife21]

Those who suggest that the latter is some kind of solution are, I think, open to challenge. Let’s have no more theorizing when actual comparison is possible. There is in the world a great nation, larger than ours in territory and populated with 250 million capable people. It is rich in resources and has had more than 50 uninterrupted years to practice socialism without opposition.

We could match them, but it would take a little doing on our part. We’d have to cut our paychecks back by 75 percent; move 60 million workers back to the farm; abandon two-thirds of our steel-making capacity; destroy 40 million television sets; tear up 14 of every 15 miles of highway; junk 19 of every 20 automobiles; tear up two-thirds of our railroad track; knock down 70 percent of our houses; and rip out nine out of every 10 telephones. Then, all we have to do is find a capitalist country to sell us wheat on credit to keep us from starving!

[Mr. Silverback]

Reagan leads us again from the grave.

I'm thinking we call our regroup and RINO hunt Operation Bold Colors.

[Mr. Silverback]

We must be damn sure that the next republican prez canidate be cut of the same cloth as Reagan.

Can't be done. As Prime Choice said in another thread yesterday, There won't be another Reagan just as there won't be another Washington.

But we can make sure the next Prez is a person who idolizes Reagan and tries to emulate his policies. That will be enough.

[Mr. Silverback]

Then we must do it from the grass roots.

[Mr. Silverback]

What happened this election was not an aberration by some crafty democrat, or some foolish republicans who simply did not understand the public mood. What happened is the end result of 40 to 50 years of faux conservatives incrementally ceding conservative values. We are now truly on the downhill side and going the way of Rome.

Then get off fR and take up knitting. We need fighters right now, and this crap ain't cutting it.

[wagglebee]

This part here is a true inspiration:

We did not seek world leadership; it was thrust upon us. It has been our destiny almost from the first moment this land was settled. If we fail to keep our rendezvous with destiny or, as John Winthrop said in 1630, “Deal falsely with our God,” we shall be made “a story and byword throughout the world.”

Americans are hungry to feel once again a sense of mission and greatness.

[steveegg]

True enough. The operative question, especially in Wisconsin, is whether to do it from the inside or the outside.

Dunno if you've taken a look at the Wisconsin board here lately, but it is very clear that there are two "Republican" parties in Wisconsin; the southeast Wisconsin conservaties and the outstate liberals (no, they're not moderates; they're out-and-out liberals). While the former has tolerated outstate Pubbies in the past, and indeed embraced outstate moderately-conservative Mark Green for governor this time around, the latter has made it clear they will not support anyone who so much as appears to be conservative, even to the point of delivering 4 more years of a very-corrupt and liberal Jim Doyle.

[stevie_d_64]

"The only problem is there are no more Ronald Reagans waiting in the wings to spearhead a conservative takeover of the country club."

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I believe you are right...From a certain point of view...

But more important...Why would anyone at this particular point in time want to take over the country club???

Some of us have not been able to play the game...So for the longest time some of us felt like we were better suited to "pulling weeds" and "mowing the grass" to keep it nice...

Now its our turn to play...It'll be ugly at first...And the Pro's are in charge now...We'll probably have to pull double duty, and maintain the course and play at the same time...But that's character building...

We will probably lose more ground during this time, and it'll be hard to keep the course nice enough for the Pro's...But they'll have to deal with that..."Let them go their way."

I think in the end, in a few years, we may win a few tournaments, have a few new champions rise amoung us, and send a few of those "Pro's" to the seniors tour...

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Reading these words, given years ago, make my heart glow. Bump and distribute to every GOP member of Congress and the Senate.

[trisham]

This is as true today as it was thirty years ago.

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You bet it is. Thanks for posting it.

[trisham]

Whenever I think of Ronald Reagan I think of my mother in law. :)

She always said that one day, he would be recognized as the greatest president this country ever had.

Great photo.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Can we live with ourselves if we, as a nation, betray our friends and ignore our pledged word? And, if we do, who would ever trust us again? To consider committing such an act so contrary to our deepest ideals is symptomatic of the erosion of standards and values. And this adds to our discontent.

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.

Awesome words!