Wednesday Open Thread: I’m Back Edition

Ronald Reagan just understood conservatism to its core. He never had to claim he was a conservative, you just knew it by the way he expressed himself in speeches. Speaking of his speeches, it is almost scary to go back and listen to them. Reagan's words truly are timeless and apply every bit today as they did back then. That's what conservatism is, the study of that which works in society and human nature. Too many think that conservatism is a relative term. Jack Kennedy is a conservative relative to Obama, but that doesn't make Kennedy a conservative. Reagan was a conservative, and there was nothing relative about it!

Oh yes…one of the most brilliant Republican leaders ever who's "Big Tent" Republican platform would have made sure you kept NY-23.

Reagan is not some sort of WalMart gift card for you loonies. He was a brilliant leader and it would benefit you all to go back and listen to some of his speeches and read some of his publishing's and use him as an icon, an inspiration to stop alienating yourselves from every one and any one who dares to have a difference of opinion with you. What he called "Reagan Democrats" you people label "RINOs".

Reagan isn't some cheap poster to hang on your wall. He was a great leader that you could learn quite a bit from.

On the other hand, Obama is some cheap poster to hang on your wall. Just don't tear it down.
Reagan tears down walls, Obama builds them up. Now who's putting forth a POSITIVE message? And the Nobel Peace Prize goes to…

A Reagan Democrat was almost always a Catholic, blue collar and family values.

Gen. Powell, is a RINO. Back stabling the party and supporting a Marxists for President. Or Senator Spector voting for an 800 billion dollar stimulus plan that would do nothing. These are men with no political principles, pure opportunists.

Reagan was a master of managing moderates. You Democrats are finding out what a pain that can be.

Is there Room on Mt Rushmore for Reagan? We can carve over Teddy Roosevelt if need be.

Two trillion dollar deficits sure buy a lot of racism.

GREAT PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
Ronald Reagan40th president of US (1911 – 2004)

"Free government pic-a-nic basket, Boo-boo" "Yogi" Barack Obama 44th president US (1961- )

One of my great disappointments is that I never got to meet Reagan.
I was a kid in the 80's but I remember his 1984 win. I remember feeling safe, and optimistic. I understood "Morning in America."
Last year the country seemed to be heading towards an optimism. Some of us had our fingers crossed that it would pan out. Alas, what a difference a year makes.

Hurray! Very exciting election night for Conservatives! I hope Hoffman runs again. Excellent race for a candidate that ran for 30 days!

I didn't meet him, but saw him speak twice… once on a cool whistlestop tour on a vintage train car, and I got within 75 feet. He ended his stump speech with "You ain't seen nothin' yet!" And he delivered this country eight of the best years it's ever seen…

I'll never forget it… they don't make 'em like that anymore.

Except maybe the Arctic Fox…?

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Exactly! I think many of us didn't know how good we had it…these days really show the contrast!

We have a year. Starting today.
Everyone should take Barrack's advice and grab a mob and start cleaning.Newt and Steele should be the first ones to be cleaned out. They are out of touch, and need to go. They do not represent Conservatice values. If we took six months to clean house, and six months to restructure the party, we could regain the House and Senate in 2010.

GOD BLESS RONALD REAGAN AND CHESTY PULLER, wherever they are.

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FIGHT THE VIRUS OF LIBERALISM!

So supporting a different philosophy of governance makes one a racist?

It's the same ole same ole with you libs; can't even tell what truth is. "The earth is flat because I say it's flat. You don't agree with me? Racist!"

I think, although I could be wrong, that CrashX is being sarcastic…

I don't usually disagree with you Cowboy, but I think this needs to be from the bottom up. Newt doesn't hold a formal party position, so I'm not sure how he can be cleaned out. Steele's position is difficult. Those county chairpeople put national in an awful position; support the local party and its not-Republican candidate or turn their back on them completely. Not saying that they handled it well, but I think the Catch-22 they were placed in isn't always appreciated. Better for people to get involved with their precinct, township, county committees. Reclaim the party from the ground up. When the foundation is solid, leadership will have no choice but to follow.

Racism does not mean anything anymore, I don't care what you call us it doesn't work anymore. It has been your "Crutch" for so long it has become meaningless……………………………….. Cry all you want……………….

Other weak Nations may "like" Obama but they do not "Respect" Obama. No one respects a weakling coward…………….

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." ~Ronald Regan

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Could Ronald Reagan be elected today? The media in 1980 were liberally biased and hated RR but they still had some adult supervision and a shred of integrity, some senior people who had been in WW2 or Korea. The media in 2008 is completely integrated into the "Progressive" movement may be veterans of The Summer of Love or the Milk Riots. They would have employed their two tools: destruction by ridicule, and relentless, saturation biased "reporting". "By any means neccessary" has overcome "all the news that's fit to print".

"You people"? How racist.

Yes sir. I think we all took him for granted until it was too late…

Philly Mike,

I agree. FIRST we call, SHOUT, whatever you whomever is in power today "we are mad as hell and we're not gonna take it any more!" and get ObamaCare and Cap & Tax, and every other communism in social justice cloaking effort of BHO, Pelosi, & Reid.

But then we MUST have someone worthy of VOTING FOR. I think Cowboy makes a good point. I can't support the GOP (party platform) as it stands today. I think heads need to roll and they need to smell the TEA. But we need principled Reagan-like men and women who will RUN for office and STAND for solid CONSERVATIVE principles & values.

We need to search out the Hoffman's and McDonnell's of the 2010 election NOW, and then support them to the hilt, and TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY!!!

PS – Maybe the CAPS are a bit too much, but I see all fired up today and I can't help but SHOUT from the mountain top…

That's awesome Holly. One good thing about being young or even not around is, though you missed RR in real time, you also got to miss out on the constant anti-Reagan shrill from the press and the left. They hated him and did everything they could think of to undermine him.

The unions today are technically socialists to me. Which means that a person is like a "brick" and worth nothing unless he becomes part of the group "wall". The foundation is money, and the "mortar" is money. No conservative or Christian beliefs are allowed into the philosophy. I'm going to do a bible study on "organized work force". The idea of working for a living is a biblical command, as well being industrious in business, investing, farming or ranching. There are more verses about money & money systems than the "Thou Shalt Nots" topics, believe it or not.

If you're using sarcasm, and I'm pretty sure CrashX is, it is best to include some sort of reminder with your post, lest your sarcasm be too subtle for some people.

Homer Simpson's "in case you didn't notice, I was being sarcastic!" works. I myself use the /sarcasm tag at the bottom of sarcastic posts.

Thank You Randy for this Great Reminder.

Nov 1979 was my first Presidential election. Ronald Wilson Reagan was the man I voted for at the unripened age of 19. Carter was a joke, bad joke. i will give Carter a thumbs up for "Habitat For Humanity" but nothing else. We dyed in the wool Conservative need to keep our chins up and backs straight. We will reclaim this precious country America, I have no doubt!

Reagan's best one liner.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIcDdWgBELY

Growing up my father, a WWII navigator and fiscal conservative, taught me three main lessons.

1) Personal responsibility — People will trust you if you take responsibility for your actions. Over time, they will even begin to follow you because a true leader will admit and learn from their mistakes. Part of responsibility is taking a stand though even when it is not popular especially when principle is at stake. A leader has the responsibility to defend what is right and just. Responsibility, leadership and justice all go hand in hand.

2) Anything worth having is worth working for — In an age when so many in my upscale community buy their children cars in high school, my 17 year old son knows that he will not be given a car. Does he resent me for it… not at all. He holds down a job while being in several extracurricular activities and had his best report card ever. Why? Because he now understands intrinsically what it is to earn the accolades and to work hard for something he desires. He doesn't need or want a hand out. He knows what value is. He is armed with the knowledge that "Yes HE can."

3) Look for the good in all people — My father told me to always look first to what you like about someone. Form your opinion on where you have common ground or where you share similar values not on what divides you. He said that those that first look to what they don't like miss vital opportunities and end up turning people away and never get to share ideas to improve the overall situation.

Reagan was a man much like my father. He was a leader and made the hard decisions based on principle over popularity. He re-instilled the idea of our founders that hard work should be rewarded with the fruits of its labor. That government was only a hindrance to the goal of citizens being intrinsically motivated to achieve. He was also the kind of a man that found common ground and used that as the basis to build something more. Like my father, he was a man that I trusted and that is something I have not been able to say about a President since.

The last decade and a half we have let the political parties force a wedge between people based on their differences. I am thrilled to see that people are starting to re-unite based on their similarities again. My father and President Reagan both would join me in having real "hope" because things are about to "change" back to how it was when I was growing up. People are waking up to what the real problems are and the movement to take back our Republic is growing bigger everyday.

Who is the next Ronald Reagan?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzPBUGUM7KQ

You're right I didn't witness it, but the MSM coverage of RR has been well documented by Bernie Goldberg in his book Bias. Funny how a book written in the mid-90's is still very relevant.

I'll chalk his comment up to sarcasm and let it go. I hope he was trying to be sarcastic…

That's an excellent book. He wrote a followup that was good too.

Alright. Sorry for taking you serious. I hadn't had the reason to click on your handle… Comment will be deleted.

Amen

Yes, Arrogance, I've read all his works and try to keep up with his columns. He usually has a great take on the issues. BTW, if you enjoy political debate he has a forum on his website with a healthy, I think, diversity of thought. Everyone ought to check it out.

http://www.bernardgoldberg.com/forum/

He's pointing directly at you, Newt.

If you're not backing Conservatism over an idiotic meaningless R next to Tweedle Dede's name, you and Calista ought to saddle up and ride out to the sunset.

The reason why (the white man) Bollock Insane Bananarama (all bow) will not got to Berlin has nothing to do with the snub by Angela Merkel – when the municipal dog catcher attempted to shake-and-bake His brain-dead zombie retards into yet another Messiah-moment, but was refused by the Germans – but it has everything to do with the the lamestream media avoiding a compare and contrast moment; a moment that would do nothing but illuminate the black hole that is this lying Kenyan's existence.

Imagine the media trying to avoid comparing Ronaldus "tear down this wall" Magnus, with the faux-black self-white-hating Stasi sympathizer, Jeremiah Alvesta Wright Obama. The reason why the leader of the house negro movement will not go to Berlin is because, well, to paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen:

Dog Catcher, I served with Ronald Reagan, I knew Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan was a friend of mine. Dog Catcher, you're no Ronald Reagan.

You can't just leave De Niro hanging like that Now who's he talking to?

Ronald Reagan 2012 Address To America:

http://tinyurl.com/c29tf2

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