Domestically, mass murderers were rampant and liberal judges released the most vile killers routinely, based on insane rulings from an insane Supreme Court that had turned the country upside down for a generation. The liberal answer to rising crime was to attempt to take our guns. Inflation, unemployment, interest rates, and gas lines were our lot.
In 1980, the press said that America would choose between Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy. There was no other point of view allowed. America would never select a conservative president, ever. This was taught as fact in schools. I will never forget Tom Brokaw’s face on election night.
More than a quarter century later, because of Ronald Reagan, progress has been made in every one of those areas. We are safer in our homes, in spite of horrible crimes like the one in Connecticut this week. In the seventies, one of those was on the news nearly every day. (HIllside Strangler, etc..) We are winning on guns. Abortion is not shouted and snarled from the lips of our enemies. They are on the defensive about it. Not us.
The Soviet Union is gone. Did we honestly think those liberal pigs who demanded we kneel and grovel to the USSR for so long would actually thank us for ending the Cold War? No, they still insist it was Gorbachev who was the hero of the era.
This thread is a real downer. What is so bad? We sit in our living rooms with our coffee and pretzels and preach on a message board. Real hard life we got here, folks. Have some perspective.
Ronald Reagan was a Churchill. People only turn to one of those in terrible times. When times are good, human selfishness, greed, or disinterest are likely to rule the day and win elections because then it’s just politics. There is nothing higher at stake. We won big in 2002 and 2004 because of higher national needs.
I know somebody a lot higher than the president. It’s Him I trust, through darkness and light, Clintons or no-Clintons. All will be well. Regards to you all. Luke
I agree with your take on the current state of the nation. I also agree with the last line and I believe that a spiritual approach in our search for a Presidential candidate is absolutely necessary if Republicans are to choose and elect the next President. Hillary is formidable because she is the only RAT candidate who really wants the job badly enough to do anything at all to get it. She would be the face of the presidency but the real rulers would be Sorros and any number of power brokers who exist in this country and worldwide. Not that her agenda and theirs are incompatible, i.e. socialism/communism/ and opportunism. The RAT party is united behind her regardless of whatever show is put on for OBoma etc. The RATS know that this is a winner take all election, and they will leave no stone unturned to take over this country. While some Republicans and Conservatives whine incessantly about the deficiencies, perceived and real, of President Bush and his administration, the RATS single mindedly continue to bore away, in any venue available, at the Republican administration. I find this thread depressing because it is a continuation of the pity parties that have gone on for months now. If George Bush were to be replaced by any one of the posters who is so sure they have the answer to any and all situations facing this country, who would be that one? It is like all of the generals and military people who saturated the media the last two elections demonizing Pres Bush and denouncing the handling of the war. Which one had the genius to know the one brilliant stroke that would set all things right? There is a reason we vote for ONE person to lead this country. I believe the Republican party will win the 2008 Presidential election with or without the non appeasables and the constant complainers in our party. Criticism can be destructive or constructive but construction takes work and criticism is easy.