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Yes, Reagan was great, but it's time to move on
Chicago Sun Times ^ | Feb 11, 2004 | George Will

Posted on 02/11/2007 10:46:19 AM PST by PhiKapMom

Edited on 02/11/2007 12:14:43 PM PST by Lead Moderator. [history]

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To: Tarpon

There are millions of well-grounded conservatives in this country that are great candidates for future leadership. It's our job to raise up a new generation of those leaders to replace the failed leaders of the past like Newt.


101 posted on 02/11/2007 12:23:23 PM PST by EternalVigilance ("With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?")
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To: Tarpon
Well a lot of us started as a Democrat.

It hasn't been held against you either has it? ; )

So what if many of us have been blessed with seeing the light all of our lives.

Our does that make us less "worldly"?

102 posted on 02/11/2007 12:23:55 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: EGPWS
Our does that make us less "worldly"?

That would be "Or"....

103 posted on 02/11/2007 12:24:59 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
Obama can run as the second coming of Lincoln

ROTFLMAO!!

Is Obama a connoisseur of the theater?

104 posted on 02/11/2007 12:27:07 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Tarpon
"The fact that Newt, and Delay, gave up and retired gives me pause."

I have often wondered if they didn't retire ... but temporarily withdrew to fight another day. Just a thought.

105 posted on 02/11/2007 12:31:22 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (America: Home of the Free Because of the Brave)
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To: My2Cents

Bravo! Very nice...


106 posted on 02/11/2007 12:31:49 PM PST by rockrr (Never argue with a man who buys ammo in bulk...)
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To: EternalVigilance
Whatever.

My feeble mind can't take the humiliation of deep conversation anymore.

Thank God that wasn't directed to me for I wouldn't know how to answer to such a profound statement worthy of debate. ; )

107 posted on 02/11/2007 12:32:42 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: EGPWS
"Is Obama a connoisseur of the theater?"

How the heck would we know??? All that seems to matter is that he made a rousing speech once and might quit smoking.

108 posted on 02/11/2007 12:35:00 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (America: Home of the Free Because of the Brave)
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To: volunbeer

Newt should have been the rightful heir to the Reagan legacy, but he shot himself in the foot with his personal life. Too bad. And the Republican Congress started going soft when Newt resigned. The Democrats don't win on their own merit, but only by tearing down Republican leadership. He would have been my first choice for president this year. He says all the right things, and is Reaganesque in his optimism and clear articulation of the values of America, but I don't know that he can overcome the baggage, nor do I think he has any illusions of winning the presidency.


109 posted on 02/11/2007 12:35:22 PM PST by My2Cents ("I support the right-ward most candidate who has a legitimate chance to win." -- W.F. Buckley)
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To: BunnySlippers

Actually he is a frustrated sportswriter whose vocabulary stands before him like an overstuffed bookcase.


110 posted on 02/11/2007 12:36:01 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: EGPWS

It's all some posters are worth. ;-)


111 posted on 02/11/2007 12:36:18 PM PST by EternalVigilance ("With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?")
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To: Carry_Okie

Funny you mention that...I have been getting a strong impression of Nixonian Republicanism coming from certain quarters here...mostly the ones pushing Giuliani.


112 posted on 02/11/2007 12:39:09 PM PST by B Knotts (Newt '08!)
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To: EternalVigilance
Diggins (and presumably approved by Will) raises a straw man in Reagan's putative Emersonianism. Reagan's strength was not in "telling people what they wanted to hear," or that desire for government entitlements was "good." Any hack columnist or college professor can do that. But like Emerson, his strength was to call people to their higher nature, their self reliance, their aspirations, and inspire them to attempt to live up to it.

And, like Emerson, he was an American original. When Reagan spoke of "the people" he was speaking of Americans. Perhaps kindred spirits elsewhere, but he was not indiscriminately concerned about the human race at large.

113 posted on 02/11/2007 12:39:35 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: My2Cents

I agree about Newt.

Right ideas by the wrong man. I would still vote for him but his negatives would be impossible to overcome.

What are your thoughts on Duncan Hunter?


114 posted on 02/11/2007 12:40:16 PM PST by volunbeer (Dear heaven.... we really need President Reagan again!)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
How the heck would we know??? All that seems to matter is that he made a rousing speech once and might quit smoking.

Well, John Wilkes Boothe new that Lincoln was a connoisseur of theater...

I just wondered of Obama happened to show his attraction toward theater in his ramblings to equate himself with Abraham Lincoln.

Oh, he QUIT SMOKING????

Now THAT'S a leader in the making!

Regards,(....hang on while I light up....)

EG

115 posted on 02/11/2007 12:43:30 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Pretty good analysis on your part, I think.


116 posted on 02/11/2007 12:43:59 PM PST by EternalVigilance ("With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?")
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To: EternalVigilance
It's all some posters are worth. ;-)

Whatever...

JUST KIDDING EV! : - )

117 posted on 02/11/2007 12:45:35 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: EGPWS
Is Obama a connoisseur of the theater?

He better not go see "Our Kenyan Islamic Cousin."

118 posted on 02/11/2007 12:46:11 PM PST by EternalVigilance ("With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?")
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To: x

Here's a clear indication of Ronbo's increasing status in history: just recieved the gratis copies of an article I had published in Automobile Quarterly. The article was on motoring during WWII. They used most of the photos I gave them, but added a couple from their own archives, including a full-page shot of a young Ronbo with Jane Wyman standing in front of a '49 Lincoln Cosmopolitan.

It's a national mag, and with no political agenda. Still, it seems that but a few years ago it would have been controversial to publish that photo. Now, it's normal and without a thought for politics.

Thanks for the ping.


119 posted on 02/11/2007 12:47:09 PM PST by nicollo (All economics are politics)
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To: Sam Cree
"The true conservatives, the founders,'' Diggins rightly says, constructed a government full of blocking mechanisms -- separations of powers, a bicameral legislature and other checks and balances -- in order ''to check the demands of the people.''

I don't believe this is true at all. The Constitution was constructed not to thwart the will of the people but to prevent the abuse of power among those who would use government power to infringe on the liberties of the people.

120 posted on 02/11/2007 12:53:08 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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