Hoosier Daddy wrote:I absolutely believe it, and people who were there have written about it. Senile Ronnie is not the Patron Saint of Goodness you want him to be. And, for what it's worth, I'm probably older than you are. What's the point?
My point was if your view of that era was so inverted you must not have first-hand memories of that era. They say the proof is in the pudding. Carter's results vis-a-vis the Hostage Crisis was two pathertic helicopters burnt in the desert, poor American hostages held without action for 400+ days. Reagan's results were Hostages released on the day Reagan was innaugurated. You can spin that any old way, but I saw what happened and I know what that means to me. Mean old Reagan, scaring those poor innocent Muslims.
Reagan. He was just a man, he had limitations, he had blind spots, sure. But he was the best thing that happened to this country in years. God Bless Ronald Reagan. You know, I lived through that era of everybody on TV trying to make him out to be stupid or a warmonger or whatever. In the intervening years, I've heard all the myths that have been cultivated, greedy Regan 80's all that bs. I figured in the end the long-reaching media would eventually diminish Reagan's true stature. But when he died, I was really struck by the outpouring of respect that was showered on him, not by the TV elitists who were so shocked at that outpouring, but by the real people of this country. People in work clothes, filing through the Capitol Rotunda. People in suits and ties. Cub Scouts. Policemen. Men in uniform and VFW caps, stopping to silently salute. People standing outside their cars along the highway in Californina for miles and miles and miles, watching Regan's funeral procession speed by. Then I knew, reminded of what I always knew, that this country is still the great country it always was, that no amount of spinning or twisted thinking or hacking and hewing against the pillars of reason and decency and looking out for the other guy, upon which this country is built, will ever bring this country to her knees. Reagan was a man that believed in this country. He believed in the basic goodness of people and believed they ought to be free to live as good a life as they could make for themselves. That's what I believe. And for the same reason that you and all the king's horses and all the king's men can't pull down Reagan's spirit in the hearts of Americans who lived through that era, is the same reason that I know, deep down in my heart, that neither you nor the Kennedy Family nor Barney Frank nor Barack Obama nor the Unions Nor ACORN nor the Apollo Group nor any form of government that wants social justice as revealed by the tenants of radical Marxism will ever prevail. We are the people of this country. We believe this is a great country. We believe the way this country operates is pretty darned good for everybody. We believe this country enjoys God's Blessing. We believe the United States are the light of the world. And we are not cattle to be stampeded or tricked or maneauvered, not for long. So call up the editor at Mother JOnes, and tell her to double her efforts, because the American Regular Guy is getting pissed and refuses to reject Reagan Americanism, and therefor the latest wave of the Worker's Revolution is careening once again towards the ditch.
God Bless Us, Every One.
