But nothing that spoke to the truly immortal qualities of greatness, just passing reference. As Ronald Reagan’s speech quoted Churchill
“The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits — not animals.” And he said, “There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.”
Mitt quoted the Constitution’s “no religious test” clause as a defense mechanism IMO allmendream, he was spot on about it, but still.
Reagan understood Greatness, I’ve seen optimism from Mitt, but not an appeal to Greatness of America as of yet, Reagan could quote Churchill with aplomb, Romney is not there, none of them are really “there” yet.
If one wanted to see Reagan’s bad side, when there was a small debate in New Hampshire he went off on GHWB and reminded the assemblage that he was paying for the building, and darn it, the debate was going to be run the way he wanted it to be run!
Fun stuff indeed.