Posted on 06/07/2004 4:35:07 PM PDT by Pokey78
They will never ever forgive Reagan for defeating their beloved USSR.
The revisionists when into full gear in the early 90's with their "Gorbachev saved the world from Reagan" mantras...
Many of my New Hampshire neighbours wander round with the constitution in their pocket so they can whip it out and chastise over-reaching congressmen and state representatives at a moment's notice. Try going around with the European Constitution in your pocket and you'll be walking with a limp after 48 hours. It's full of stuff about European space policy, water resources, free expression for children, the right to housing assistance, preventive action on the environment, etc.
They may well be worthy planks in a political platform, but they're not constitutional matters. Yet what else is there? The European Constitution attempts to supplant genuine national identities with an ersatz bureaucratic identity - a government identity, from which a new national identity will follow. For Ronald Reagan, America was the "shining city on a hill". For M Giscard and his fellow founding fathers, the European Union is affordable housing on an environmentally protected hill. I can't see it working myself.
Steyn is a true American
"I slept easier in my bed knowing he was sleeping easier in his."
Ditto, and the same goes for President Bush.
That's the basic problem with the EU. It's a bunch of bureaucrats who micromanage everything and are responsible to nobody. Don't like them? Tough. No way to vote them out.
Just so. You can't make a Union by saying, "We're united and we have the paperwork to prove it!"
Wonderful...every line is priceless...and God knows we need a laugh or a smile right now.
This guy is an international treasure for the Anglosphere.
Wow! Every time I see that picture I ask myself how we ever got lucky enough to have this man as president for eight years. But it was no fluke. Thank you, God.
"The Tories have an established modus operandi on Europe: first, they tell us they're going to stand firm; then they sign on to it anyway; finally, they assure us it doesn't mean anything. The biggest question facing the country today is this: is the United Kingdom to be a nation state or merely a westerly region of a highly centralised European entity? The Tories, as a matter of policy, have fudged that question for 15 years, and in so doing have assisted the remorseless march of the Euro-fantasists. So I'm afraid I cannot agree with my eminent colleagues. This Thursday, vote UKIP."
15 yrs of Tory funk, debunked in one paragraph.
"They wouldn't want the USA and conservatism to get the credit for turning back totalitarianism."
The conservatives of that day forestalled totalitarianism. That caliber of conservative is long gone.
Thank you. I'm glad you liked it. :^D
bttt
To the AMAZEMENT of MANY of Us; We Loved His Vision of America as Much as HE DID!!
To the Amazement of Many of Us, He Understood the Soul of our Nation Better than We Did.
"America" Isn't just a "Place;" It is an Idea;--Mr Reagan Knew This BETTER THAN most of "The Rest of Us!!"
THAT SINGLE FACT is WHY "President Reagan" was able to DEFINE & ENHANCE our National Identity so that we NOT ONLY DEFEATED the concept of a "Soviet Economy," but we ACTIVELY DEMONSTRATED that a "Market Economy" WORKS!!
While "Controlled Versions" of a "Free Market Economy" are being "experimented with" by formerly "Soviet-Style Controlled Economies;" TRULY "Free MARKETS" are overwhelming "Socialist Markets!!"
The OLD, Centrally-Controlled economy CANNOT Withstand a "Free-Market-Economy!!"
So Be It!!
Doc
OUCH! Looks like the Tories are about dead as a party.
Canada, in many respects, is a government in search of a nation.
Thanks, Pokey...
And well said, as usual, Mr Steyn.
EU: People by the Government, of the Government, and for the Government.
And God Bless you, Ronald Reagan.
I said it (to a liberal friend) when he left office, and it bears repeating, now more than ever: "In time, Reagan will be recognized as one of the greatest Presidents ever"; he spoke to what is best in men and makes most of the others seem pretty small in comparison...
In Texas, it's not uncommon to see bumper stickers that say, "I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as soon as I could."
Similarly, Steyn wasn't born an American, but it didn't take him long to figure out where he really belonged.
Hard to believe he's Canadian.
And that's the reason Steyn is dubbed "self-loathing Canadian" by the establishment Canadian media and chattering classes and many (mainly Central/Eastern and far-Western) Canadians. They literally beg him to "renounce his Canadian subject status".
And interestingly you will notice his posts rarely attract responses from our resident Canadian (or pro-status-quo-Canada American) friends here on FR. Poiunts to ponder...
BTTT
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