Posted on 02/05/2006 6:56:29 PM PST by al baby
It was 525-13 and very nearly 535-3. Reagan was extremely close to carrying Minnesota.
Sing one for the Gipper.
When I was a kid, I wondered what it would have been like to be alive at a time when the USA was led by a great President, someone like Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Washington, or Jefferson. Someone who knew what they needed to do to improve our country and the world, and had set a higher standard for the rest of all time.
Well, by 1988 my wonder was turned to knowledge.
Thanks for that. I knew it was a BIG win!
"It was 525-13 and very nearly 535-3. Reagan was extremely close to carrying Minnesota."
Just an interesting side note on that.
Mondale spent the last 3 weeks before the election campainging in Minn, and he won that state, his only state, by just 3600 votes. He almost became the first presidential candidate to lose 50 states.
Extraordinary that The Gipper won Massachusetts!
"Extraordinary that The Gipper won Massachusetts!"
Yeah, I still can't figure out what year Massachusetts turned communist.
Clicked it. Sucky "music" and a website that choked my browser.
That's a great quote. Thanks for posting it.
You are welcome. I have it in my Freeper profile.
February 6th is my birthday as well, so I never forget the Gipper's birthday. He was my hero and it was for him in 1980 that I made my first "get out the vote" phone calls. Back then, I didn't know a lot about politics, but I knew I wanted him to defeat the fectless, pacifist Jimmy Carter.
God bless our Nancy.
Everyone was talking about it right after he passed away, but I haven't heard anything new in quite a while.
sorry about the double post...
BTTT
Thanks for the ping.
God Bless Ronald Reagan, a Great American Patriot who served his country in many ways, his Presidency just one of them, but one that will be a shining example of integrity, strength and hope to emulate for all time.
And for me personally, a period of years that reminded me of the sense of fatherly comfort, decency and civility in America that I haven't experienced since a young boy during the 8 years of Eisenhower's Presidency. Ronald Reagan was a living embodiment for the idealism of American life for me and is sorely missed. God keep him in eternal peace.
February 6 should be honored as Ronald Reagan's birthday, the second-greatest president in US history, out-ranked only by the Father of our Country, George Washington. If historians were not asses, they would already be marking him so for defeating Communism without a war. What a great leader! We were so blessed.
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