"A Time for Choosing," a.k.a. "The Speech."

http://www.presidentreagan.info/speeches/the_speech.cfm ^ | 1/12/2008 | Sudetenland

[Sudetenland]

If you are going to invoke the name of Ronald Reagan, you had better know of whom you are speaking. Most of the Huckabee supporters, the Ron Paul supporters, and others who presume to take up the mantle of the Greatest President of the past century are clueless.

[jwparkerjr]

I would love to see Fred do this speech, word for word!

A million thanks for putting this up for us. Wonder if there’s an audio or video of it floating around someplace....

[greyfoxx39]

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[socialismisinsidious]

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[Agent Smith]

Vertical politics = Mike Huckabee

[pandemoniumreigns]

Thanks for such a reminder of who Reagan really was...

"The Speech" however needs to be seen...

A TIME FOR CHOOSING

[K-oneTexas]

Try these:

Video & Audio: American Rhetoric: Ronald Reagan -- A Time for Choosing

[Sudetenland]

I can't thank you enough for providing that link. Everyone on Free Republic needs to go there and listen to it.

God knows we could use him now...Huckabee is Reagan, my as---tabula!!!

[ejonesie22]

The Huckabee supporters are aimlessly and stupidly taking us down the same road the Christian Democrats have taken Europe, and we see how well that is working. Social Justice via taxation is the exact opposite of conservatism.

Ron Paul supporters are just idiots period. The only thing they have proven is that a political campaign can be financed by money normally spent on Bite Sized Skittles and Pot, along with a little cash chipped in from “Uncle George” and some skinheads.

[Coldwater Creek]

But, it wouldn’t be Fred’s speech!

[SomeCallMeTim]

Suddenly, I’m feeling the way Hillary acted... all weepy eyed.

God Bless you Dutch!

Will there ever be another??

[Copernicus]

Mark Levin played the entire 1964 Reagan nomination speech on his radio program right before Christmas.

It was amazing to hear how contemporary it was.

I wish I had taped it.

Best regards,

[jwparkerjr]

I realize that, but I love to quote the 2nd chapter of Acts, in its entirety, and I didn’t write the Bible! I think some ideas and combination of words are so powerful, so right, as in correct, that they belong to everyone and hearing them from someone who embraces them detracts nothing from either the speech or speaker.

But you are certainly right. In this case I would make an exception.

Perhaps you can forgive me, just this once?

[jwparkerjr]

re: amazing to hear how contemporary it was

Amen. Isn’t that the way with great ideas and words that express them! Look at the quotes from our Founding Fathers that have stood the test of time for over two centuries!

Isn’t it interesting, the things that are quoted decades, even centuries later are almost entirely conservative principles. When was the last time you heard a Leftie quote something that was said 40 years ago, let alone 200 years ago. They can’t even go back four decades and repeat the words of the Godfather, JFK, when he said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what can you do for your country?” That single quotation shows just how far the Left has become a different animal!

[pandemoniumreigns]

". When was the last time you heard a Leftie quote something that was said 40 years ago, let alone 200 years ago. They can’t even go back four decades and repeat the words of the Godfather, JFK,"

So true...

And don't even bring up his tax policies.

[kalee]

Gone but not forgotten in the hearts of true Conservatives.
bttt

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

“It was real interesting hearing Fred Thompson talk about Ronald Reagan last night,” Huckabee said. “Because Fred Thompson supported Gerald Ford in 1976 and not Ronald Reagan. He supported (fellow Tennessean) Howard Baker in 1980 and not Ronald Reagan. I appreciate his recent conversion, but some of us were for Ronald Reagan back in the early days; our legacy goes back a little further.”

[rockinqsranch]

My wife and myself like to go to the Reagan Library twice annually to pay our respects. We believe he was the greatest President of the 20th Century, and possibly ever.

We would like to see a Presidential contender step out of the crowd of Ronald Reagan wannabees and admit that there will never be another Ronald Reagan, but will serve the American People by similar Conservative values.

Go Fred ‘08

[Harrius Magnus]

Thank you. Listened to the whole thing... this young Reagan sounds like he’d be a very dangerous man (to our Gubmint overlords): Charismatic, honest, and yet the measured amount of urgency in his voice balanced with truth.

[Coldwater Creek]

Sure, I am a very forgiving person, when someone ask me to.