What made Ronald Reagan not just a great President but a great man was his Love of America, his belief in the American people, and his strict adherance to his philosophy.
The Tea parties we see today are very much an extension of what this great man gave to all of us: A belief in national sstrength, limited Government, reduced taxation (something he proved was the best path to economic success), and one of the greatest speaking abilities in America History.

There are many great speakers, but only the greatest among them believe all that they say. Ronald Reagan was such a man.

Happy (late) Birthday President Reagan.

You are sorely missed.

The next time anyone asks what’s wrong with the Republican Party…

A conservative’s perspective.
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They came of age in dark and troubled times but came out of the depression and the war with such and optimism! And they had such an ability to really accomplish things! I mean real things.

Like build an entire house! At least twice my Dad built his own house. And modern houses too! I’m sure the electricity in that first one was dangerous… laws were loser then.

And take land out of sage brush and make it a farm! How did they do stuff like that. My parents did that in the 1950s in Eastern Washington. They dug wells and ditches and cleared rocks leveled the land for gravity irrigation. I barely get the lawn mowed and the garbage to the curb!

Life has certainly changed. We’ve lost so much of who we are. Now so many expect the government to do everything. Back then the government encouraged self-reliance.

Of course it was the government that built Grand Coulee Dam and opened up the land by building canals. The environmentalists would never let that happen today.

The pendulum has swung against the pioneering spirit.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.’ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
~Ronald Reagan

Happy birthday sir. You left the world a much better place then you found it.

I stood and stared at that wall. My German friend came and tugged on my sleeve, begging me to join the fun. Finally she just stood next to me while I took it in. To her, this was nothing…a fact of life. To me it was as close to totalitarianism as I had ever come, physically, and it opened a whole new worldview.

The day the wall came down was very real to me. I understood it’s import.

God bless America.

God Bless you in heaven Mr President Ronald Reagan!

And I tear up when I see pictures of him.

God bless you, Mr. President. My President.

Reagan
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txleadfoot00 on February 6, 2010 at 11:06 PM

It’s interesting that even in this thread there are people arguing about Reagan’s Conservative credentials. The high deficits and tax burden are always used as some kind of hammer by the Democrats to try and make Conservatives question whether they really knew what Reagan was about. The 1988 SOTU address was the FIRST TIME you were hearing the call for a LINE ITEM VETO and a BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT. Clinton didn’t come up with that stuff. Funny how Clinton gets credit for taking Reagan’s ideas and Obama gets elected by praising Reagan. But why was Reagan be dramatic about all that? Because at that time he had a Democratic Congress that stuffed pork in bills then if he didn’t sign them or what-not the MSM screamed that he was shutting down Government or taking lunches away from school kids and starving them. If he wanted any of his legislation he had to take the whole thing or nothing at all. That included ALL the liberal spending. He constantly told them they need to find more ways to cut spending but that he wasn’t gonna do it at the expense of the military that deserved a decent wage for a stressful, and dedicated job. There was no one in my life time who explained and exemplified the Conservative Ideal more than President Ronald Reagan.

Lastly, I had met one of the twin sons of the French Ambassador to Japan during my time attending Japan High School at Utsunomiya Kita High School in the Tochigi province. A year after I returned home from that trip having met this gentleman, my family invited him to stay with us for the summer. He accepted. Ironically, it was during the Iran/Contra Hearings when Col. North was being interrogated. I watched a lot of those hearings with my French friend, whose family was highly political obviously, and he berated me because I was basically pumping my fists every time Col. North was giving these guys the invasive hard time. My French friend told me that I should be ashamed of support a criminal and even more ashamed to believe that Pres. Reagan didn’t play a key role in it all. I told him that all those Senators up there doing the questioning should be ashamed of supporting Communism in our Hemisphere and that he should be thanking President Reagan for removing Communism for his Hemisphere. Ironically, nowadays those very same people have the completely opposite view of Pres. Reagan in hindsight. Now they tell me he was the best President ever. I feel wonderful that I realized and understood that all along, regardless of how horribly the Left tried to take him down.

House Speaker Jim Wright (crooked SOB!) is sitting back there, tapping his magazine on the desk, shaking his head with a sickening little smirk, as if to say, “The boy just doesn’t know what he’s talkin’ about.” No wonder Rush always called him Fort Worthless Jim.

I miss The Gipper so much. Happy Birthday, sir.

txleadfoot00 on February 6, 2010 at 11:06 PM

Better yet was old Worthless Jim getting run out of DC when caught using his “book” deal to funnel campaign donations from friends of Jim.

That’s why the LSM couldn’t let go of Sarah’s book finances. A classic case of projection – since they do it, SP must have done likewise.