So Now They Think He Was Charming

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So Now They Think He Was Charming
June 9, 2004

 

America\'s greatest president has gone home. God worked through Ronald Reagan on Earth and now He\'s taken him back. Reagan is survived by his wife, three children, and the hundreds of millions of people he saved by winning the Cold War. Thanks to him, the United States of America never ceased to be, as Reagan said, "a place to escape to" -- the last stand on Earth.

No thanks to liberals, I might add. More enraging than their revisionist history of Reagan, is liberals\' revisionist history about themselves. Now liberals claim they liked Reagan at the time. This is extremely believable -- aren\'t we all fond of someone who regularly exposes us as liars, cowards and hypocrites? It\'s just human nature.

In fact and of course, liberals loathed Reagan. Their European friends loathed Reagan -- the protests against our current president are positively anemic compared to the massive protests against President Reagan when he went to visit our dear "allies," whose sorry asses we spent billions of dollars defending against the Soviets for 50 years. Even the moderate Republicans currently trying to insinuate themselves onto Reagan\'s legacy weren\'t especially fond of Reagan at the time -- especially when attacking him publicly would get them invites to the tonier Georgetown cocktail parties. Only authentic Americans loved Reagan.

From the descriptions in the media, you would think the reason Reagan was beloved by Americans was that he was an affable fellow who could tell a good joke. That\'s a description of Bob Dole, not Ronald Reagan.

Reagan was a March hare right-winger. He had enough faith in the American people to know that as long as the facts were clear, they would rise to the occasion and be March hare right-wingers, too. As Reagan himself said, back in 1964: "Our Democratic opponents seem unwilling to debate these issues. They want to make you and me believe that this is a contest between two men ... that we are to choose just between two personalities."

Reagan forced Americans to confront the real ideological divide between conservatives and, as he said, "our liberal friends." But now liberals are trying to muddy the political waters by passing off Reagan\'s popularity as a result of his personal magnetism. I note that liberals were strangely immune to that magnetism at the time. Only now do they talk about Reagan\'s outsized personality as if he worked some sort of beguiling magic over the electorate and tricked them into supporting policies they never quite understood.

While Reagan had undeniable magnetism, what set him apart was that he had the courage to speak the truth and trust the American people. In the 1964 speech that launched his political career, "A Time for Choosing," Reagan never smiled. He told no jokes -- though he did say some amusing things inasmuch as he was talking about "our liberal friends."

In the throes of the Cold War -- still hot in Vietnam -- Reagan forthrightly said liberals refused to acknowledge that the choice was not between "peace and war, only between fight and surrender." In words that would have come in pretty handy in Spain just a few months ago, he said liberals tell us "if we only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he will forget his evil ways and learn to love us." All who disagree with the "peace" crowd, he said, "are indicted as warmongers." To this, Reagan said: "Let\'s set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there is only one guaranteed way you can have peace -- and you can have it in the next second -- surrender."

This wasn\'t sunny old grandpa carrying candy around in his pocket for children. After watching Walter Cronkite\'s coverage of the Vietnam War in December 1972, Reagan told President Richard Nixon, "under World War II circumstances, the network (CBS) would have been charged with treason."

Reagan quoted "Mr. Democrat himself," Al Smith, for the proposition that the Democratic Party was no longer the party of Jefferson, Jackson and Cleveland, but was now the party of Marx, Lenin and Stalin. (And that was 30 years before they tried to push Hillarycare on us.)

Reagan was a bulldog, completely, implacably right-wing on every issue. He was the right-wing Energizer Bunny. He never quit and he kept beating liberals. He cut taxes 25 percent across the board his first year in office; he walked away from Gorbachev at Reykjavik; he fired all those air traffic controllers -- and wouldn\'t let them come back even when they wanted to; he gave speeches about "welfare queens" and polluting trees; he nominated Antonin Scalia and Robert Bork to the Supreme Court; and he enraged grim liberals when he warmed up his radio mike by saying, "My fellow Americans, I\'m pleased to tell you today that I\'ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."

But now they\'re telling us Reagan was a "pragmatist." Well, not according to him. As he was wrapping up the Republican primaries in 1980 and moderate weenies in the Republican Party were trying to move him to the "center," Reagan said: "No, I\'m not moving my positions any. ... I believe the same things that I\'ve been speaking on for years, and I don\'t see any reason to change."

Thank God he didn\'t. Because Reagan lived, the world is a better place

Coulter is a waste of flesh. I rank her opinion on the same level as someone like Michael Moore and Rush Limbaugh in that they are completely oblivious to the real world and live in this black-white/left-right vision of america.

I consider these people to be the epitome of unamerican in that they serve ONLY to divide.

Oh yes, Ann Coulter, the death of a president is such a wonderful occasion to launch a bile-filled irrational attack against half of our nation.  This is something that Michael Moore would not do, so any equation of the two is not appropriate.

BTW, I do not have any golden memories of Ronnie as Ann claims.  I do however have the good taste not to bring up my complaints about him at this time.

Originally posted by Coredweller
Oh yes, Ann Coulter, the death of a president is such a wonderful occasion to launch a bile-filled irrational attack against half of our nation.  This is something that Michael Moore would not do, so any equation of the two is not appropriate.

BTW, I do not have any golden memories of Ronnie as Ann claims.  I do however have the good taste not to bring up my complaints about him at this time.

She is a nut, no doubt about it... though just like all the other fringe analysts who spout rhetoric there is a slight hint of truth in what they say.  

I do have to agree with BS that she is very slanted in her views and even warps them when she is proven wrong.  That said, Michael Moore is a good comparison when it comes to launching "bile-filled irrational" attacks against our administration.  To claim he is great in one breath and slam Coulter is nothing short of hypocracy.

I for one do think Reagan was a great president and do have fond memories of him.  The greatest in the 20th Century?  No I wouldn\'t go that far.  Roosevelt and Truman would be my nominees for that title.  For those who don\'t know Reagan was actually a Democrat until the late 60\'s when he jumped ship to the Republicans.  

The party of Roosevelt and Truman died with them - the Democrats of this era really have no one they can idolize the way the Republicans and a majority of America idolize Reagan.

The one thing I like about Ann the most is that she has a way of getting under the skin of the left.

I also think she\'s kind of hot. There I said it!

Hot?????  

:nut:

She looks like a boney hate-filled scarecrow with an eating disorder.  

But that\'s just one man\'s opinion.  

Originally posted by Coredweller
Hot?????  

:nut:

She looks like a boney hate-filled scarecrow with an eating disorder.  

But that\'s just one man\'s opinion.  

I have to second that... Ace - that is one sick fetish bro

OMG there is so much wrong with that image.  It\'s something about the combination of pale skin, lumpy arms, vinyl dress, and granny pantyhose that makes me want to shield my eyes.  

Originally posted by Coredweller
OMG there is so much wrong with that image.  It\'s something about the combination of pale skin, lumpy arms, vinyl dress, and granny pantyhose that makes me want to shield my eyes.  

why do you think I posted it?  I must show Ace the error of his judgement.

Oh and she has a bit of a pooch on her as well.

its ok Ace... I would "hit It " too.

Black vinyl dress are a big turn on .

I never watch CCN or MSNBC or anything like that, but I happened to stumble upon Deborah Norville\'s show a couple weeks ago, and I thought she was pretty hot.  A tough interviewer also.  Not a pundit, just a news personality.  Oh well.

That pic is one of my favorites. You guys don\'t know a beauty when you see it. Anyway, I think bedding her and listening to her crap on the left while I\'m doing it would be the best.

See, ooseven, now we have two things in common. The other, if you are wondering, is beer.