RONALD REAGAN RIP
I was too young to remember Watergate and old enough to know that Jimmy Carter wasn’t cutting it. Reagan made being president look easy. And the presidents since have shown us how hard a job it really is.
He was an optimist in pessimistic times. He could demand that Gorby tear down that wall and joke after being shot. His tax reductions in the early 1980s were that basis for the great economic times we’ve had ever since. His critics called him simple-minded and out of touch with reality. So he made his own reality and then remade the world.
He pulled the conservatives out of the ashes of the Goldwater campaign of 1964 and set the stage for the Republican Congressional victory in 1994. Like Democrats in the shadow of JFK or FDR, Republicans are forever in the shadow of him.
REAGAN THE CONSERVATIVE
PATTI DAVIS:
George Will
Reagan's D-Day Speech
The Queen and Thatcher
Thatcher in 1988
Peggy Noonan
Reagan Vigils
Washington Post
FOX NEWS SHORT TAKES
THE SPEECH (AKA the Goldwater Boost Speech he gave in 1964 that became legend among Reaganites --rendezvous with destiny)
When Buckley met Reagan
Buckley Today
Tom Wolfe in 1988
Thomas Sowell
Cal Thomas
Dinesh D'Souza v. E.J. Dionne (1997)
Bob Novak
Michelle Malkin
Rush Limbaugh
Andrew Sullivan
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