Posted on 01/06/2006 10:01:10 AM PST by Reagan Man
the GOP stands on one leg with it's proverbial head up its arse...
no pictues please. LOL
a new national conservative party is on the horizon...
no RINO's need apply!
I was rather hoping it was already in the harbor. We need to do something right away.
The GOP doesn't listen to folks like us, and most U.S. citizens are sheeple watching MSM for their "news" and opinion.
What do you suggest we do? and When?
Semper Fi, sir.
Unfortunately, I think that people like President Reagan are one of a kind.
I admire and respect President Bush very much, but could he not have taken a stronger stand against the NY Transit strikes than letting them talk things out (while New Yorkers slogged through snow and ice)?
What would President Reagan have done in a situation like that?
Ronald Reagan will be remembered as a great man and a great American leader who personified and advanced the highest ideals of the American people at home and abroad.
After eight years of his presidency, the communism of Soviet Russia was collapsing, the American military was rebuilt, the nation’s economy restored and its moral fabric renewed. As he said, himself, President Reagan left America "more prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was eight years" earlier.
Many will remember him as the "Great Communicator".
But as the President said many times, he wasn't a great communicator, he communicated great things. Those were the traditional American values of this Midwesterner turned national leader. They came from the profound Christian faith inculcated into a young Dutch Reagan by his beloved mother Nelle and from his heart. And, as the President said, "they came from the heart of a great nation."
Those ideas were simple, straightforward and distinctly American. President Reagan believed that freedom depended on limited government. He fiercely advanced the principles of less government, less taxes, a strong military and a commitment to traditional moral values.
And President Reagan changed the course of my life. While youthful ambition led me to politics, it was the voice and values of Ronald Reagan that made me a Republican. The Bible says, "if the trumpet does not sound a clear call, who will get ready for battle?"
Ronald Reagan’s gift was to sound a clear call to return our nation to the ideals of its founders. It was said that when the average American heard Reagan speak of those values, they didn’t just agree. From coffee shops to tractor seats to carpeted offices, when most Americans heard Reagan speak they said, "darn right!"
I met President Reagan in the summer of 1988.
I was a 29 year-old candidate for Congress and he was winding down a presidency that changed the world.
It was a Candidate photo op in the Blue Room of the White House.
I was determined to say something of meaning to the great man.
So I looked him square in the eye, I told him I just wanted to "thank him for everything he had done for the country and everything he had done to inspire my generation to believe in America again".
He seemed surprised, his cheeks appeared to redden with embarrassment and he said, "Well, mike, that’s a very nice thing of you to say"
Moments later in the Ballroom he took a minute to respond to my and others accolades with characteristic humility optimism saying,
"Many of you have thanked me for what I did for America but I want you to know I don’t think I did anything for this country-the American people decided it was time to right the ship and I was just the captain they put on the bridge when they did it"
In the midst of his extraordinary gifts, Ronald Reagan was a deeply humble man who believed in God and the American people with an unshakable faith.
In his Farewell Address to the nation, President Reagan spoke poignantly of the distance that high office can place between the servant and the served. He said, "One of the things about the presidency is that you're always somewhat apart. You spend a lot of time going by too fast in a car someone else is driving, and seeing the people through tinted glass - the parents holding up a child, and the wave you saw too late and couldn't return. And so many times I wanted to stop and reach out from behind the glass, and connect."
Well, permit me to say with affection-You did, Mr. President. And the free world, America and my small life are better for it.
And so, good-bye Mr. President. God bless you, as, through you, God blessed the United States of America.
Rep. Mike Pence
You're hereby put on notice, G.O.P. -
the Reagan-Conservatives are standing to not only be counted, but to take our place as true custodians of this Party!
The photo was a nice touch and brought back many memories of the great man thanks
The base has remained strong, active and ready to fight the lowlife lib scum. The elected Rs ( with a few exceptions) have turned their back on the base and turned into whiney spinless Monica Lewinsky wannabes.
One more squandered opportunity lost not to the hapless Rats, but rather because of the Hispandering GOP Big Tent of RINOs, liberals and moderates. Lack of resolve, failure to deliver on promises or a conservative agenda, and sabotage from within perpetrated by a handfull of RINO traitors.
And a president who talks smaller government but whose every action expands government.
Sempre Fi.....Its up to the base to keep the pressure on the spineless ones. Here in NC we have to worthless R senators. One is nothing less than a socialite(play on words) the other has a staffer prepare whiney form letters fr his signature.
"What would President Reagan have done in a situation like that?"
well we know Reagan fired the air traffic controllers when they went on strike but you know they were federal employees ...the clowns who went on strike in NY were state employees so it was reeeeeely up to Pataki...and you saw what he did...slept through the whole damn thing I think.LOL
my beef with GWB is the illegal immigration problem and the lack of border, airport(baggage, freight & food service) and seaport security.
If the GOP keeps advancing Democrat "lite" policies, don't be surprised if at some not too distant future date, a national "Conservative Party" becomes a reality.
It's going to be a difficult task for conservatives to find another Ronald Reagan to lead the Republican Party. And with PresBush and the GOP majority controlled Congress having promoted big governemnt Republicanism for the last five years, it doesn't look promising that the GOP has what it takes right now to advance the conservative agenda on into the future.
2008 could turn into a make or break year for the GOP. If the wrong candidate is chosen, large numbers of traditional conservatives might decide to break ranks with the GOP. From the looks of the political landscape today, they wouldn't be wrong in doing so. The current crop of Republican leaders need to be sent a strong message. They need to be told in no uncertain terms that conservatives don't support their agenda of liberal spending policies, expansion of government bureaucracy and opposition to immigration reform for illegal aliens.
The WOT will be a critical factor in the next 2-3 future Presidential elections, but conservatives should be confident that they'll find solid conservative candidates who not only believe in a strong defense for America, but also in fiscal responsibility.
well ya know we're in worse shape in CA...just like MA & NY;
we have Lefties in the Senate and a RINO for a governor, with a Leftie legislature...
like pissin' in the wind out here! LOL
I reluctantly agree. My (and the other's) approach seems to be not working very well, namely; grass roots awareness and activsim. Too bad, though.
"grass roots"
yep, those days are lonnnnng gone
but witht the Internet and talk radio;
folks can still get their message out
but in the large states like CA,NY,TX,FL
one has to have a HUGE war chest to hit the airwaves!
Bump to self.....
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