I have. Heard it for...oh...over three decades now-- since Nixon. Heard older conservatives talk about Eisenhower and that lost opportunity. Understand lots of people liked his speech but the editorial "we" failed, "we" didn't do this, "we...we...we..." and not giving credit to those who stopped it from being a whole lot worse than it could have been grated.
Ya know Glenn...when Carter was in, Democrats had more of a majority in the House than Republicans had seats. They didn't leave voluntarily. People put a lot of effort into getting them out. Seems impossible today but Carter or Kennedy could have won in 1980. Conservatives stopped that Glenn. The Cold War ended because of that election. It could still be going on today or something worse could have happened.
But you couldn’t keep the liberals from coming back and gaining the controls again.
Glenn praised the Republican party of that day. It's the ones who have come since, the ones who, when the R's held the majority, still grew the government and still passed out the pork and still couldn't manage to reduce government spending, etc, etc.
The Republican party had the chance to quit playing patty-cake with the Dems and treat this sucker like a game of hardball, but they didn't. It seems the Dems are the only ones who take this seriously.