Too bad GWB cannot hold a candle to Reagan. Too bad for America.
Bush has Reagan's iron man resolve. Much like Reagan, I doubt he spends too much time worrying about the grousing of lefties or the conservative ankle biters.
As much as we may want him to be or he may want himself to be, George W. Bush is not Ronald Reagan.
Let's hope Bush picked up a few conservative ideas while visiting the Reagan library. He could use some.
Good article, Molly.
It's a shame that this thread will become like fly paper to all the trolls.
President Reagan ALWAYS made me smile. Mr. Bush increasingly just makes me shake my head in bewilderment.
Mr President, You ain't no RR and never will be!
Bush aint no conservative.
Presidential Libraries reek of caesarism.
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
A modern rule of grammar: 'Bush' and 'Reagan' should never be used in the same sentence.
Despite a seventeen-year concerted effort by left-leaning politicians, media decision-makers, and members of academia to tarnish his legacy, Ronald Reagan's influence on Americas collective courage and conscience will never die, as long as those of us who recognize his greatness are still living.
Unlike during the Cold War, during these precarious times, when our enemies are less defined/confined within prescribed borders, lacking a leader of Reagans incomparable stature represents Americas Achilles heel. And, try as they might to superficially and symbolically emulate him, there is not an American leader today worthy of taking up his mantle.
From my profile page, fondly ...
I fell in love the evening of October 27, 1964 and havent been the same since. Sixteen years later, during Reagans first presidential campaign, my husband and I and our two very young children went to Millersville University to hear him speak. His words were electrifying. His faith, wisdom, decency, honesty, and love of this country were awe-inspiring and his sincere, unabashed passion literally filled the auditorium, wall to wall, floor to ceiling. Afterwards I was fortunate enough to make my way up to the stage and shake his hand. I am not, and never have been, starry-eyed about any public figure, so it was not the reaction of a groupie when I felt an unmistakable strength and warmth run through me as his hand gripped mine. And the indescribably kind, knowing, optimistic twinkle in his eye is something I have never witnessed in the eyes of anyone else, before or since. Not ever. My tribute to
The work of volunteer groups throughout our country represents the very heart and soul of America. They have helped make this the most compassionate, generous, and humane society that ever existed on the face of this earth ... 16 October, 1973 We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look ... 20 January, 1981 ...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever ... 20 January, 1981 The house we hope to build is not for my generation but for yours. It is your future that matters. And I hope that when you are my age, you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology ... 18 May, 1984
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May we prove to have been deserving of your leadership, by never relinquishing those convictions that you held sacred the ultimate importance of, and reliance on, Divine direction, and the sanctity of human life, liberty and dignity. May we never abandon the exquisite example you have set for us. Through it, your spirit must remain forever alive in America, and your legacy must prevail, so long as humanity places value on righteousness.
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~ joanie