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Reagan’s 2012 Acceptance Speech
If the Gipper were facing off against Obama: What would Reagan say?
(Page 4 of 5)
Work and family are at the center of our lives; the foundation of our dignity as a free people. When we deprive people of what they have earned, or take away their jobs, we destroy their dignity and undermine their families. We cannot support our families unless there are jobs; and we cannot have jobs unless people have both money to invest and the faith to invest it.
There are concepts that stem from an economic system that for more than 200 years has helped us master a continent, create a previously undreamed of prosperity for our people, and has fed millions of others around the globe. That system will continue to serve us in the future if our government will stop ignoring the basic values on which it was built and stop betraying the trust and good will of the American workers who keep it going.
The American people have been subjected to the biggest tax increase in our nation’s history — and it will grow even heavier, under present law, next January. We are taxing ourselves into economic exhaustion and stagnation, crushing our ability and incentive to save, invest and produce.
This must stop. We must halt this fiscal self-destruction and restore sanity to our economic system.
When I talk of tax cuts, I am reminded that every major tax cut in this century has strengthened the economy, generated renewed productivity and ended up yielding new revenues for the government by creating new investment, new jobs and more commerce among our people.
The present administration has been forced by us Republicans to play follow-the-leader with regard to a tax cut. But, in this election year we must take with the proverbial “grain of salt” any tax cut proposed by those who have given us the greatest tax increase in our history. When those in leadership give us tax increases and tell us we must also do with less, have they thought about those who have always had less — especially the minorities? This is like telling them that just as they step on the first rung of the ladder of opportunity, the ladder is being pulled out from under them. That may be the Democratic leadership’s message to the minorities, but it won’t be ours. They have produced a black unemployment rate of 14.4%. Our message will be: we have to move ahead, but we’re not going to leave anyone behind. Thanks to the economic policies of the Democratic Party, millions of Americans find themselves out of work. Millions more have never even had a fair chance to learn new skills, hold a decent job, or secure for themselves and their families a share in the prosperity of this nation.
It is time to put America back to work; to make our cities and towns resound with the confident voices of men and women of all races, nationalities and faiths bringing home to their families a decent paycheck they can cash for honest money.
I’ve spoken before of the tiny Arabella, a ship at anchor just off the Massachusetts coast. A little group of Puritans huddled on the deck. And then John Winthrop, who would later become the first Governor of Massachusetts, reminded his fellow Puritans there on that tiny deck that they must keep faith with their God, that the eyes of all the world were upon them, and that they must not forsake the mission that God had sent them on, and they must be a light unto the nations of all the world — a shining city upon a hill.
Call it mysticism if you will, I have always believed there was some divine providence that placed this great land here between the two great oceans, to be found by a special kind of people from every corner of the world, who had a special love for freedom and a special courage that enabled them to leave their own land, leave their friends and their countrymen, and come to this new and strange land to build a New World of peace and freedom and hope. Lincoln spoke about hope as he left the hometown he would never see again to take up the duties of the Presidency and bring America through a terrible Civil War. At each stop on his long train ride to Washington, the news grew worse: The Nation was dividing; his own life was in peril. On he pushed, undaunted. In Philadelphia he spoke in Independence Hall, where 85 years earlier the Declaration of Independence had been signed. He noted that much more had been achieved there than just independence from Great Britain. It was, he said, “hope to the world, future for all time.”
Well, that is the common thread that binds us to those Puritans on the tiny deck of the Arabella, to the beleaguered farmers and landowners signing the Declaration in Philadelphia in that hot Philadelphia hall, to Lincoln on a train ready to guide his people through the conflagration, to all the millions crowded in the steerage who passed the lady who is the Statue of Liberty and wept at the sight of her.
We’re bound together because, like them, we too dare to hope — hope that our children will always find here the land of liberty in a land that is free. We dare to hope too that we’ll understand our work can never be truly done until every man, woman, and child shares in our gift, in our hope, and stands with us in the light of liberty — the light that casts its glow upon us all, as it has upon us for two centuries, keeping faith with a dream of long ago and guiding millions still to a future of peace and freedom.
And let me offer lesson number one about America: All great change in America begins at the dinner table. So, tonight in the kitchen, I hope the talking begins. And children, if your parents haven’t been teaching you what it means to be an American, what American Exceptionalism really means, let ‘em know and nail ‘em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.
And that’s about all I have to say tonight, except for one thing. The past few months as I have campaigned around our country, I’ve thought a bit of the “shining city upon a hill.” The phrase, as I’ve said, comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What he imagined was important because he was an early Pilgrim, an early freedom man. He journeyed here on what today we’d call a little wooden boat; and like the other Pilgrims, he was looking for a home that would be free. I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That’s how I saw it, and see it still.
And how stands the city on this summer night? Much less prosperous, less secure, and happier than it was a mere four years ago.
America deserves better — much better — than that.
About the Author
Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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Appleby| 7.17.12 @ 7:30AM
I recall Mr. Reagan pointing out that if every church in America took responsibility for helping 10 families get out of poverty and into the mainstream, poverty would disappear in no time.
If Mitt Romney has anybody advising him to do anything positive, perhaps he could lay out the Mormon programs that do exactly that -- when I was a Mormon, it was said proudly that no Mormon ever took government welfare because they took care of their own -- as individuals, finding out what they needed and giving them the assistance that would lift them out of poverty and back into the world of those who make and out of the world of those who take. There is a model and it works. Why isn't Romney pointing this out?
Hello? Is there anybody advising this man?
Brookschwarzenegro | 7.17.12 @ 9:18AM
Reagan would say:
"I've been dead since June 5th, 2004."
Albertus Magnus| 7.17.12 @ 9:35AM
As Brookschwarzenegro would say:
"My brain has been dead all my life."
Doctor Right| 7.17.12 @ 11:51AM
I've always found it amusing ( and typically Liberal) that gays like to blame Ronald Reagan for AIDS.
In their minds, it's like this...
They didn't MEAN to go to bathhouses, and have gay experiences with other, anonymous men...
They didn't mean to have multiple sexual partners...
They didn't want to engage in risky behavior and activities that would expose them to a lethal virus...
They were just walkin' down the street, mindin' their own business when - POOF! - Reagan turned them gay!
AND Reagan made them do all those risky, immoral things!
So naturally, it's Reagan's fault that gays got AIDS.
AIDS is one of the most preventable, easily avoidable diseases on the face of the globe.
If you want to drastically reduce your chances of getting it, all you have to do is STOP engaging in risky behaviors that spread AIDS.
It's wasn't Reagan's fault, fellas...
Osamas Pajamas| 7.17.12 @ 6:00PM
Right, sport, and Ayn Rand has been dead about the same amount of time, but observe that there is a seismic wave of Reaganauts, Randians, Dittoheads, and a kajillion other Americans sweeping in your direction. It's time to throw the trash out.
Mimi | 7.17.12 @ 7:40AM
We have a different kind of adversary to go against in 2012....One that Ronald Reagan never encountered or probably never imagined.
We have a bold brazen incumbent...lawless, tyrant like , yielding power...dictating laws by edict and executive priviledge. A bad guy out to make our guy the BAD guy. He cares not that he is seen as a bold liar, grossly incompetant and wrecking like a toddler everything he touches.
A moral , statesmenship, decent nominee is locked in a den of wolves....he needs to lay the true facts on the table of what this nation will endure if we have to contend with 4 more years of total lack of leadership. He's had 31/2 years now one of which was selfishly spent on being re-elected. he cares not for the country or its great people....We have a sharp, clear contrast here...The nation stands parched with thirst for a NEW President!
Osamas Pajamas| 7.17.12 @ 6:09PM
Hi, Mimi, well spoken. I too doubt that Reagan would ever have imagined an ostensibly American tyrant in the White House --- but Reagan also faced down an evil empire by alliances with Lech Walesa, Pope John Paul, Maggie Thatcher, and anyone else with more than half a brain in their heads.
OhBummer thrives on division --- he loves it when Christians and atheist Democrats declare that Romney's Mormon religion is a problem or that he is not so steady a light as one might prefer.
Only the self-deluded imagine that Romney is just "OhBummer Light." If perhaps he goes wobbly on us at some point, we are different than we were four years ago --- we are done with patience and will not hesitate to give him a sharp poke, if need be --- even the kind with which we have rightly bedeviled OhBummer these long three years or so.
John Navratil| 7.17.12 @ 6:24PM
Mimi,
Unfortunately, he has the political will to issue illegal waivers to the welfare work requirements. There is no way this will be litigated in the next 4 months. And for whom do we think those people who no longer need to attend government make-work programs will vote. And vote they will when the bus drives through the neighborhood to pick them up on voting day.
R Martin| 7.17.12 @ 8:03AM
One hopes Mr. Lord's hint is not too subtle for the Romney campaign.
Brookschwarzenegro | 7.17.12 @ 11:45AM
Reggie Love:
The greatest generation started the welfare State, which you don't like, in 1933.
JD| 7.17.12 @ 1:37PM
The "Greatest Generation" were schoolchildren in 1933. Men considerably older than them created the welfare state.
Crassus| 7.17.12 @ 1:37PM
Uh, no. The greatest generation was only 10 years old in 1933. Dumbass.
Reggie Love| 7.17.12 @ 8:19AM
The country is a lot different than when Reagan was potus sadly. Back in 1980 and 84 their were still many Greatest Generation people around and active. They loved their country and refused to let it go downhill.
vtwin| 7.17.12 @ 9:33AM
Reagan’s legacy; outsourcing, off shoring, and bankrupting…my fellow Americans, my country be dammed, it’s all about me.
Albertus Magnus| 7.17.12 @ 9:36AM
Horse manure. You're a damned liar.
Moe Blotz| 7.17.12 @ 10:13AM
Part of Ronald Reagan's legacy includes tariffs applied to Japanese large displacement motorcycles (engines over 1,000 CC). A certain Milwaukee motorcycle manufacturer was the beneficiary of the tariffs, and asked the Feds to rescind them three years before they were set to expire. Harley-Davidson has since flourished and preserved their basic engine design that was supposedly obsolete in 1970, with Japanese manufacturers developing their own V-Twins. So without Ronald Reagan, vtwin may not have chosen such a moniker because that type of engine would have died with The Motor Company back in 1981.
canuckistani| 7.17.12 @ 10:37AM
No, his legacy is one of amnesia and transferred malice.
He pandered to the birchers but governed to the left of BHO.
He cut and ran from Lebanon.
Sold missiles to the Iranians
Dealt directly with Saddam with his waterboy Rummy as messenger.
Was asleep for most of his remaining six years in office and permitted the S&L fiasco to occur.
The Oct '87 crash was on his watch too.
Gave us Daddy Bush.
Went to church one time in office and had astrologers and the Ultra Supreme King of Fraudsters Billy Graham tiptoeing around the west wing countless times.
The dismantling of America occurred minutes after his inaugural and hasn't stopped in 30 years.
He did push the Reds to the brink with his profligate spending, but left no plan in place when and if the bloc crumbled - typical of
He actively did business with every scumbag regime on the planet if they signed the Norquist-esque pledge to hate pinkos.
C. Vernon Crisler | 7.17.12 @ 12:28PM
Hmm, are you trying to channel Murray Rothbard?
canuckistani| 7.17.12 @ 3:41PM
I forgot one more:
ONLY DIVORCED PRESIDENT IN HISTORY
Doctor Right| 7.17.12 @ 12:44PM
You REALLY are a fool.
Really.
Brookschwarzenegro | 7.17.12 @ 1:12PM
It is a possibility Reagan was the Antichrist:
Ronald= 6
Wilson= 6
Reagan= 6
Dixon| 7.17.12 @ 5:57PM
There is a much greater possibility Brookschwarzenegro is the antichrist...but unlikely due to the intelligence deficit.
It is a much greater possibility Brookschwarzenegro is a left wing loon, all symbolism over substance...emotion over logic...a proud member of the moocher class.
JD| 7.17.12 @ 1:39PM
I thought Bush invented offshoring and outsourcing. Or Romney. Now it's Reagan? Make up your mind!
The grand irony is that selfish Americans do more to help society than your people do.
Osamas Pajamas| 7.17.12 @ 6:12PM
Whenever government taxes and regulations become oppressive, the rights of revolution or deflection obtain. We actually could smash these bxstxrds until they are stone cold dead, but the lesser response has been to shrug off their greed-for-the-unearned and move operations away from the victim company --- either domestically or offshore. We are under no obligation whatever to support or obey a dictatorship, large or small.
Doctor Right| 7.17.12 @ 1:54PM
Reagan's Legacy:
The GREATEST President of the 20th Century.
One of the TOP 3 GREATEST Presidents of all time.
Liberals are desperately jealous of Reagan's track-record of economic success, and the special place he holds in the hearts of the public. That's why poseurs and clowns like Obama keep trying to compare his pathetic, ignorant, illiterate butt to Reagan.
Ain't gonna' work.
Reagan = GREATNESS.
Obama = Abject failure
It must suck to be a liberal; everything you believe in is a lie.
vtwin| 7.17.12 @ 9:22AM
Jeffrey , do you think the Gipper would join the growing chorus of Republicans calling on Mitt Romney to release his tax returns? And what do you think the Gipper would make of a presidential candidate with secret Swiss bank accounts?
Anthony| 7.17.12 @ 10:19AM
vtwin, do you think Obozo will tell us why he wrote a bio for his book publisher that said he was a Kenyan? Maybe show his real birth certificate, not the fake one on line?
Do you think MOOcheele will tell us how she got that no show $300,000 job at that Chicago hospital?
Why is it corrupt Ds, like Obozo and Chris Dodd, borrow money from the felons like Tony Rezco and Angelo Mozillo?
Can we see Obozo's Connecticut S.S. card? Maybe a few of his college transcripts and his application, which will show a "foreign student" status??
Maybe tell us why the professor emeritus of Columbia's Poly Si department has no recollection of ever seeing Obozo?
I think you and your biker buddies need to get back to picking up 5 cent deposits to help save California from bankruptcy.
Does Gov. Moombeams have a Swiss bank account, or only a brain that looks like Swiss cheese?
Final Question of the day: Which California city will declare bankruptcy today? Get your answer in by noon Eastern, and win a ride on vitwin's tricycle.
Anthony| 7.17.12 @ 3:16PM
Whoa, hey vtwin, look's like the next bankrupt CA city is San Bernadino. Apparently, it has no cash to pick up its citizen's garbage. Maybe the citizens should deposit their garbage at City Hall. Oh wait, they voted for these lefties.
This is a job for vtwin and his San Fran bikers!!!
I kinda like the symmetry here, garbage in.... garbage out....
Get it vtwin?
Suzyqpie| 7.17.12 @ 7:06PM
Why do we care about what Romney's do with Romney money? You need to focus on what 0bama does with our money. Get it? Stay in the now.
Kingofthenet| 7.17.12 @ 10:12AM
He would say, I won't mention your youth or the fact that your a N*gg*r, if you don't mention my age.
canuckistani| 7.17.12 @ 10:48AM
Or his absence of a brain.
RR was the antichrist, you just don't realize it.
C. Vernon Crisler | 7.17.12 @ 12:32PM
canuckistani, are you Ron Reagan Jr?
Brookschwarzenegro | 7.17.12 @ 1:16PM
Do you mean because?:
Ronald= 6
Wilson= 6
Reagan= 6
Albertus Magnus| 7.17.12 @ 1:44PM
I know you think you're funny (it is a giant leap to assume that you actually think), but this really is offensive and very unfunny. Not to mention patently abusrd, assuming you yourself take this seriously. You may now return to your domicile under that rock.
canuckistani| 7.17.12 @ 3:35PM
Numerology. Hmm, very apropos for discussing RR.
I wonder how many numerologists were in the West Wing after Nancy punted Don Regan?
I place my bet on 6....
Riff Raff| 7.17.12 @ 5:40PM
"I place my bet on 6...."
You lose.
Doctor Right| 7.17.12 @ 1:55PM
No, he's an ignoramus masquerading as an elitist.
Reagan could run intellectual circles around ANY 20th-century Democrat President.
Canuckistani (the name says all you need to know) is a joke.
canuckistani| 7.17.12 @ 3:32PM
Not likely. He and his cabal of birchers used empty rhetoric to seduce Catholics and white working people to buy into his empty vision of the country. Where did that get them? A rust belt and a polarized country for generations. Some legacy.
Doctor Right| 7.17.12 @ 6:22PM
Where did that get them?
Hmmmmmm...
Good question. Let's see...
1. Greatest peacetime economic expansion in US history that propelled growth for over 25 years.
2. Renewal of American national spirit after 20+ years of weak, pusillanimous Democrat power.
3. An end to the Cold War
4. The economic destruction of our greatest enemy
5. The end of Communist expansion and aggression
...should I go on?
You're an idiot.
canuckistani| 7.17.12 @ 3:30PM
No I am not, just a regular American that calls it as it is.
Look at his record and the laws broken, people's lives shattered under his regime, not his teleprompter rhetoric using skills acquired shlepping for GE and on set with the Chimp.
For whatever you think BHO is, his record is already ahead of RR's in his first term in tax relief, foreign expertise and realignment of federal priorities. Job creation is pretty close and with record low inflation and interest rates, cost of money keeps people afloat.
Anthony| 7.17.12 @ 3:44PM
Foreign Expertise= Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Realignment of Federal Priorities= Destruction of the private sector, 53 straight months of 8.5%+ unemployment, $Trillions deficits until Hell freezes over.
Laws Broken= Fast & Furious. Obozo lied, two agents died... and hundreds of Mexicans.
You have to be willfully stupid to belive your own bullshit.
Doctor Right| 7.17.12 @ 6:24PM
If you actually believe that then you're too dumb for words.
And you are.
"Foreign expertise"?????
Blah-hah-hah-hah!!!!!!!
Suzyqpie| 7.17.12 @ 7:11PM
Debt and deficits working for you? What happens when the bond buyers don't show up for our T-bills? Run the printing press? Check on Greece, how's that's working out?
Appleby| 7.17.12 @ 7:30PM
He's Canadian. He's required by law to find out what Americans do and do the reverse, whether it makes any sense or not.
Here in We're Not America, capitalism died when Pierre Trudeau took over. Canuckistani probably voted for him.
C. Vernon Crisler | 7.17.12 @ 12:31PM
Talk about crackpot theories. I've got a book called *Rethinking Race* (1996) in which the author accuses Ronaldus Magnus of being a racist. Apparently, in the extremist liberal mindset, being opposed to statism and welfarism is to be a racist.
JD| 7.17.12 @ 1:40PM
After 3.5 years of Obama, we've kinda put that question to rest, haven't we?
Crassus| 7.17.12 @ 1:47PM
I remember that famed author James Michener once called Reagan a racist because he cut taxes. So include being opposed to high taxes is another reason to be considered a racist by a liberal.
Crassus| 7.17.12 @ 1:40PM
This one ought to earn this assclown a ban.
Riff Raff| 7.17.12 @ 5:41PM
I see "Kingofthenet" the racist is back.
DaPicayune| 7.17.12 @ 10:43AM
Beautifully and brilliantly written, Mr. Lord, as if RR were speaking to us again.
You captured the spirit and the image of the co-founder of the modern Conservative movement. Perhaps you only neglected to mention his warning, that freedom/liberty is just one generation from being lost, so it’s always up to us to remain vigilant and faithful to our Constitution, our principals, and pass them on to each succeeding generation.
Just think, this speech could actually be delivered in Tampa this year, if only “Reagan’s Young Lieutenant”, the man who gave us the Second Reagan Revolution, Speaker Newt Gingrich, were our nominee. As you previously quoted RR to Newt: “"Well, some things you're just going to have to do after I'm gone." Newt’s the a man to bring RR’s words to life and make manifest their meaning.
But, it looks now like we’ll have to hope that our “Rope-A-Dope” Romney can pull us through against the worst POTUS to ever seek reelection, that Radical Alinsky Socialist, to repair and rebuild RR's Shinning City on the Hill.
Thanks for a great article, and for those who miss RR there’s still this video below:
http://w3.newsmax.com/a/reagan.....gn=Reagan1
Who Knows?| 7.17.12 @ 11:29AM
“I remember poppa”---as I was entering adulthood, dad was piquantly aware of his self-chosen future.
Many the night, lubricated by whiskey, he’d play the self-pity card, and moan---
“It’s not what you used to be, but what you are today.”
BINGO, for America!
Lots has changed since Reagan, uplifted by a majority of voters in 1980, was able to slow down the expansion of America’s decline. But, 32 years later, in 2012 = TODAY, is not 1980 = what America used to be.
The liberal cancer has just about metastasized too far.
Obama essentially stole 5 trillion dollars, and burned it. Think about what that means.
$5,000,000,000,000 divided by 300,000,000 Americans = almost $20,000 for every person, from a just-born babe to a ready-to-die old fart!
What a stick up, what a rip off, what a con job.
And, Obama and Romney are basically tied, while Intrade still has Obama favored to win 57-43.
Lincoln was wrong---you CAN fool enough of the people enough of the time to get your way. And, I thought Clinton was the ultimate fooler. He was just the appetizer.
Obama is the full feast.
Reggie Love| 7.17.12 @ 12:09PM
Does anyone think a guy with Obama's background would even win the Democrat nomination in 1980 or 84?
Crassus| 7.17.12 @ 1:49PM
A guy with Bill Clinton's background would not have won the Democratic nomination for President in 1980 or 1984. Unfortunately, we won the Cold War. That victory freed up draft dodgers and Marxists to run for President.
Doctor Right| 7.17.12 @ 1:57PM
I still can't believe he won it in 2008.
The country was going through a national nervous breakdown after 8 years of "Bush lied, people died, Bush stole Florida, blah-blah-blah."
canuckistani| 7.17.12 @ 3:36PM
Does anyone think a guy with RR's background would win the GOP nom in 2012?
Riff Raff| 7.17.12 @ 5:40PM
Not in this environment. Too many people have been bought by the government. How much did they buy you for? (Using other people's money, of course.)
Doctor Right| 7.17.12 @ 6:24PM
Yup.
In a landslide.
You're a joke.
Kingofthenet| 7.17.12 @ 12:34PM
I wonder how long before Conservatives take the NEXT logical step and build a religion around RAYGUN. I mean for them Fast and Furious is a BIG scandal, but selling HEAVY weapons to the Iranians....not so much.
JD| 7.17.12 @ 1:41PM
Straw men are all you have.
Albertus Magnus| 7.17.12 @ 1:46PM
Are you still here? You are SO stupid you make Obama almost look intelligent.
Reggie Love| 7.17.12 @ 1:49PM
No Republican has ever made a pledge to Reagan like you assclowns did for Obama.
canuckistani| 7.17.12 @ 3:40PM
No, you assbandits jumped in head first drinking the revisionist RR koolaid.
Daddy Bush was right: it was voodoo economics, and we are paying the price for it today.
RR created Willard by legitimizing and incentivizing LBO's. Taxing wealth lower than work is also an RR legacy.
Albertus Magnus| 7.17.12 @ 5:37PM
If you really want voodoo, look at your Bozo-the-Clown-President's "economic" plan: Just print and borrow your way to prosperity. Boobs like you wouldn't know actual economics if you ate it for breakfast.
Doctor Right| 7.17.12 @ 6:29PM
Who's "we"?
Where we're you in 1980?
Where did you live?
Look...you're here, and not in the 3rd-world cesspool that spawned you because we Americans are a gracious people.
You're here because the crap-hole country you came from sucks.
So since you're here by our grace, and living well due to the policies of great men like Ronald Reagan, do us all a favor and shut up.
Or...please enlighten us...name some great statesmen from the country you cone from, jackass.
Go ahead...we're waiting...
(What's it like to come from a useless, insignificant, backwards culture?)
Doctor Right| 7.17.12 @ 1:58PM
Just watch.
You won't like it.
(That means it's gonna' be good.)
Drunken Sailor| 7.17.12 @ 3:04PM
How quickly the left forgets that Obama was comparing himself to Regan in 2008.
So which is it, Regan was evil and your guy is just like him, or Obama lied to appeal to the legions of Regan fans?
Suzyqpie| 7.17.12 @ 7:20PM
Let's all pause and have a moment of silence for our Nobel Peace prize winning drone fleet commander, Pres 0bama's, skills in international diplomacy.
Kingofthenet| 7.17.12 @ 1:42PM
Funny you should ask:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAk7Hrf2joU
Dixon| 7.17.12 @ 6:07PM
Mr. Lord, please send a copy of this speech to Mr. Romney.
It reads similar to pages found in the book, "Reagan, In His Own Hand". If you want to see evidence of Reagan's deep appreciation for America's Freedom and Opportunity, his Faith in God and the American people this is it...his hand written speeches and notes over many years.
The man was a principled ROCK.
Thom| 7.17.12 @ 7:06PM
Unfortunately Reagan has been gone from politics for 24 years now and anyone that could deliver such a speech has long been driven out of the Party or pummeled by the elites worse than by Marxist Democrats who control the Party.
As I’ve said before, the Party has been leaderless since 1988 and none of the standard bearers since then inspire people to vote for them.
Between trying to hold politics to “Do no harm” and being unwilling to speak the truth about who the opponent is (and his supporters), the Republicans have put themselves on the same road as the Supreme Court, irrelevancy.
Politics is “war by other means” and like war you had better know your enemy and friend alike. Republicans think this is a “game” of some sort. They see “silver linings” where there is nothing but misery spreading over the fruited plane.
A well-known author wrote a trilogy about what happens when a society cast off its responsibilities to “others” and lives a life with its head up its arse…… Expecting human nature to vote responsible at the brink of the cliff is beyond naive….. It takes real leadership to unit a multitude of factions under a common cause banner. I don’t see it on stage….
Ogemaniac| 7.18.12 @ 8:59AM
Given that the Gipper was to the left of Obama on economic issues (twelve tax increases, including five of the fifteen biggest tax increases post WWII), they wouldn't have much to argue about. Perhaps gay marriage or something.