Reagan, 'hero in history'

Washington Times ^ | 5/31/02 | Arnold Beichman, Hoover Institution

[kattracks]

"The paradox inherent in democracy," Donald Kagan has written, "is that it must create and depend on citizens who are free, autonomous, and self-reliant. Yet its success

[The Great Satan]

An immediate test of that definition is to consider how different a world it would be today had Jimmy Carter defeated Mr. Reagan and won a second term in 1980.

Yikes! Don't scare me like that, will you?

[The Raven]

If he only had a Republican Congress !!!

Reagan put the brakes on the slow destruction of our country.

[Pagey]

"Judged strictly on his own terms, Ronald Reagan was a great president. He said he would reduce regulation; he did. He said that he would cut taxes; he did. He said that he would spend the Soviet Union into submission; he did. He was a successful president . . . because he knew who he was and what he believed in."

This is entirely true!Anyone who hasn't purchased the book "Reagan:In His Own Hand", has no idea how 'deeply thought-through' all of his beliefs really were.The DemoncRATS publicly slimed him all those years and got away with it.It now shows just who the truly 'Partisan' party really is,and it is them.How amazing that even the NY Times had to review this book and change their tune about him.LOL and Strongly recommended reading!

[E Rocc]

In fact, Mr. Reagan was one of the most successful U.S. politician-statesmen of the postwar era. An editorial in the distinctly non-conservative London Economist hailed Mr. Reagan in these words:

"Judged strictly on his own terms, Ronald Reagan was a great president. He said he would reduce regulation; he did. He said that he would cut taxes; he did. He said that he would spend the Soviet Union into submission; he did. He was a successful president . . . because he knew who he was and what he believed in."

"Ronald Reagan was a successful candidate and an effective President above all else because he stood for a set of ideas. He stated them in 1980, and it turned out that he meant them; and he wrote most of them not only into public law but into the national conciousness."

-Ted Kennedy, Yale University Law School, March 1990.

-Eric