Happy 99th to Mr. Reagan.

[Right Wing]

Happy 99th to Mr. Reagan.
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[Jay]

One of the greats! We miss you Mr. President!

[Right Wing]

I’d be remiss if I missed the fact that today is the official Shot In The Dark holiday – Ronald Reagan’s birthday.

Reagan is a great conservative hero for what he wasn’t as well as for what he was. In an era when people thought the entree to political leadership was a degree from an elite university and a lifetime spent currying favor and working within the establishment, Reagan was a small-town Midwesterner who’d gone to an obscure college and spent most of his adult life doing other things: a sportscaster, an actor, a pundit. He was well into middle age before he got into electoral politics.

This confounded his critics, who believed that the true measure of a 50-something man of accomplishment was a degree he’d gotten when he was 22.

He was, in short, pretty much like the rest of us – as Dinesh D’Souza noted, an ordinary man who became an extraordinary president.

He really had two great accomplishments. For starters, he had an uncommon gift for translating immensely high concepts – the economics of Hayek, the philosophy of the Federalists – into terminology that resonated with people who’d never sat through a political science seminar.

He also had a singular knack for envisioning a goal, and focusing on it with a genial ruthlessness that drew his supporters down the path, no matter how difficult, and outlasted his opponents, no matter how well entrenched.

He convinced a demoralized nation coming from an era of spirit-sapping lethargy that we were a shining city on a hill:

YouTube - Reagan - A Time For Choosing

And he talked the greatest criminals in history into putting down the gun and putting their hands up:

YouTube - Reagan - Tear Down This Wall

Conservatives need to constantly remind themselves that a leader like Reagan only comes along once in a lifetime, if that.

And yet today we may be seeing the ultimate tribute to Reagan. Millions of Americans are rising up and doing the Reagan thing for themselves. Knowingly or not, they’re standing astride the Keynesian stream and yelling “Hayek”. They’re going to the polls in places like Massachusetts and saying “If you want prosperity, tear down this stupid statist tradition”. They’re gathering in their hundreds of thousands and saying “our nation is a shining city on a hill – and it’s not because of our bureaucracy; it’s because of our indivisible prosperity and sacred liberty!”.

That millions of Americans are channeling the best of Reagan as we approach his centenary – he’d have been 99 today – is perhaps the best legacy of all.
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[Right Wing]

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[Jay]

He was, in short, pretty much like the rest of us – as Dinesh D’Souza noted, an ordinary man who became an extraordinary president.

Yes, and thats all it takes to become the best of the best and many conservatives still dont get it. This is what after all, Palin has been largley attacked on. The "ordinary man/women" is a rather complex individual, and often times is marginalized into slack jawed troglodyte by the media. Why? They fear the common man, and always have. The common man/women is the past and future of the conservative movement.

[RET423]

I share a birthday with the Gipper, a national holiday is the least we should do for this great man.

I want his face on Rushmore before its all over.

[Fantasy Chaser]

I share a birthday with the Gipper, a national holiday is the least we should do for this great man.

I want his face on Rushmore before its all over.

If we tried to get it there, the left would be screaming to have Captain Teleprompter there as well as/instead of Reagan.

[Jay]

Adapted from Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America:

Right now ... I'm looking down on a busy city at rush hour. The streets below are twin ribbons of sparkling red and white.

I wonder about the people in those cars, who they are, what they do, what they are thinking about as they head for the warmth of home and family. Come to think of it, I've met them - oh, maybe not those particular individuals, but still I feel I know them. Some of our social planners refer to them as "the masses" which only proves they don't know them. I've been privileged to meet people all over this land in the special kind of way you meet them when you are campaigning. They are not "the masses," or as the elitists would have it - "the common man." They are very uncommon. Individuals each with his or her own hopes and dreams, plans and problems, and the kind of quiet courage that makes this whole country run better than just about any other place on earth.

January 27, 1978

[QUBonline]

Happy birthday, indeed!

As time passes, though, I have begun to notice a discrepancy between the historical and the mythical Ronald Reagan. I must admit, there are things about the historical person's legacy that have always troubled me. For example, the radical deficit spending and growth of government during the Reagan years. I know, this is heresy as far as the myth, but it happened. Fiscal conservatism was pretty much out the window, it seemed. And ketchup just isn't a vegetable, especially for a public school kid.

On the other hand, we somehow navigated the 1980s without a nuclear war, so, thanks, Gipper!

Are there jelly beans in Heaven?

[RET423]

You obviously don't know anything about the U.S government or the Reagan administration except left wing propaganda.

No President has ever spent a dime.

Reagan was President for 8 years and 8 times he submitted a budget to the House Of Representatives and 8 times the Speaker Of The House dropped his budget in the trash can on National T.V. to mock the President.

Did your Communist school teacher tell you that story?

The U.S. Constitution states that all spending must FIRST pass the House of Representatives, THEN it must pass the Senate, THEN the President can either sign or veto the budget. Even if he veto's the Congress can over ride the veto.

Did your Communist school teacher teach you that part of the Constitution?

Ronald Reagan had to deal with a House Of Representatives that was controlled by a strong Communist majority. They hated him, they promised him spending cuts PUBLICLY and then broke their word and laughed at his call to pass the line item veto to control spending.

Did your Communist school teacher tell you that part of the story?

After Reagan's tax cuts were implemented (his first year) the revenue to the Federal Government had fully DOUBLED by his 4th year. PROVING that tax cuts spur growth and INCREASE tax dollars collected.

Did your Communist school teacher tell you that part of the story?

You have no idea what Reagan was like and your selective history and Constitutional ignorance does not equate to "The myth being different than the man".


I was there, Reagan was one of the greatest Presidents in U.S. history who did damn well considering the Congress he was stuck with. The evidence of his greatness is how the Communist's hate him as much today as they did 30 years ago and are still telling lies and half truths trying to discredit him.

You guys should fear him, he is more powerful from the grave than your Communist messiah and his super majority congress.