Monday, June 7, 2004

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, "The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."

Ronald Reagan -October 27, 1964

NOVEMBER 9, 1989

Do you remember November 9,1989?  Do you remember thousands of West Berliners waiting on their side of the wall with bottles of champagne while East Germans were breaking through?

Just wondering ... but did any Democratic president ever ask the Soviet Union to tear down the wall in Berlin. The truth is that Ronald Reagan was the president who won the Cold War.  Within just a few days the Democrats and their media myrmidons are going to be working full-bore to deny him that legacy.  The Cold War, you see, was really World War III. The left isn't comfortable with all of this praise for the Republican who won World War III while they're trying to defeat the president who is presently fighting World War IV.

You need to get on the Internet to see what the loyal Democrats are saying on Democraticunderground.com.  You'll find such postings as: "The hysteric media outburst has already begun, his crimes against humanity notwithstanding.  The blunt idiocy of that national self-deprecating spectacle makes me sick to my stomach.  Other than that, I'll proceed to celebrate the news in private.  For now.  (Posted by NV1962)

And here's another post from Democraticunderground.com.  This one from "mopaul." 

I don't care what killed him, Alzheimer's or the black plague, I'm glad he's dead and I don't care how many times I'm scolded or chastised for it. the day he took office was the most depressing day of my life, and i swore, that on the day he died, I'd drink a toast of celebration and figuratively piss on his grave and have said so to several Gingrich sucking Reagan worshipping dickheads.  F--k  Ronald Reagan, and i hope in some small way my fuck you counteracts all the bullshit we are going to be hammered with for a fucking month after the fall of this 'greeeeeaaaaaat human being'. F--k you Ronnie, here's to ya pal. see ya in hell

Other posters on Democraticunderground.com followed with such comments as:  "Yup, one less Nazi terrorist in the world with the death of Ronald Reagan"

Here's a direct link to some of those postings.  It might be removed by the time you get there, but give it a shot.  Today is a good day to take a close look into the black hearts of our compassionate liberal friends.

Also ... were you listening to Prairie Home Companion your local "public radio" station on Saturday?  It's a live broadcast, you know.  In the middle of that broadcast Garrison Keillor told the audience that Ronald Reagan had died.  You could hear liberals in the audience cheering and clapping.  Class act, those Democrats.

This morning I heard  CNN Candy Crowley  say that Reagan was the president who cut taxes but almost doubled the deficit.  Not one mention of the tremendous economic growth that followed Reagan's tax cuts ... then as now with the Bush tax cuts.  It would be more accurate to say that Reagan cut the taxes while congress doubled the deficit, but you're not going to hear that from the mainstream media.  Here's why.  Democrats and the media are anxious to pin current budget deficits solely on George Bush.  The reason for the deficits?  No .. it's not because congress is spending at record levels.  It's because George Bush cut taxes.  To make this stick to George Bush you have to paint Reagan with the same brush.

Perhaps Reagan's greatest accomplishment was his ending of the Cold War.  Now this is one accomplishment the left will never give Reagan credit for.  The very moves he made to bring the Soviet Union to its knees were moves that were vehemently opposed by the left.  Stationing Pershing nuclear-tipped missiles in Western Europe would be a prime example.  Reagan did this to answer threatening Soviet moves.  The left said Reagan was going to hasten a nuclear war with the Soviets.  The Soviets saw it differently.  They saw it as resolve. It also became clear to them that this president would match them move for move.  The Soviet Union soon spent itself into insolvency trying to keep up with Ronald Reagan.

Just last week Thomas Friedman at the New York Times wrote an article giving credit for setting in motion the chain of events that brought down the Soviet Union to George Bush (41), to Brent Scowcroft and James Baker, and to  European leaders such as  Margaret Thatcher and Francois Mitterrand.  There was no mention of Ronald Reagan.  Was this carelessness?  Forgetfulness?  Or was it an intentional effort from this New York Times writer to deny Reagan his legacy?

No doubt ... Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of my lifetime. 

LINKS RELATING TO RONALD REAGAN

The Heritage Foundation has a multimedia tribute to Ronald Reagan.

RealClear Politics has links to some of Ronald Reagan's greatest speeches.

Tributes:  George W. Bush ,  Jimmy Carter,

Columns:  Peggy Noonan,  Ann Coulter, David Broder, John Fund, William Safire , Jay Bryant, George Will, Andrew Sullivan

SOMEONE WILL PRINT THIS IN THEIR REAGAN OBIT

Thanks to a creative listener for this one.  Somewhere in this country some leftist newspaper has included the following sentence in their Ronald Reagan obituary.  "Having suffered from the effects of Alzheimer's disease for the last decade, Reagan was unaware of the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib."

Look for it, folks.  You know it's out there somewhere.

WHAT A SHAME

It looks like a mosque was pretty much destroyed in Iraq over the weekend.  It seems that the ammunition that terrorists and insurgents hid in that mosque exploded.  Awwwww.

ON THIS DAY IN 1981 ..

.... Israel sent warplanes to destroy a nuclear power plant in Iraq.  The Israelis  believed the plant was to be used to make nuclear weapons.  Israel was condemned worldwide for the attack.  Today we ought to spend a moment thanking Israel for possibly saving the west from a nuclear terrorist attack.

J-LO MARRIED?

So .. Jennifer Lopez got married again, did she?  Big deal.  Some character named Marc Anthony.  Anyone who treats this story seriously is insulting the institution of marriage.  This is nothing more than Hollywood coupling.

LIBERAL MEDIA STILL ON DUTY

So in the midst of all the flowing Ronald Reagan tributes, the Bush-haters
at the New York Times don't even take a day off. The latest cynical,
liberal ploy? President Reagan's death won't help President Bush in the
polls. Huh? Who said anything about that?

Of course, the media is concerned with anything they perceive as being
helpful to Bush, and this is no exception. One columnist even wrote that
Bush would try to "ride Reagan's coffin back into the White House." Even
though he has done no such thing, and to do so would be in poor taste, that
doesn't stop them from accusing him of doing it.

Anybody also notice that most of the media couldn't help but mention the
Iran-Contra scandal in every story about Reagan? They just had to get that
in there.

The only people playing politics with Reagan's passing is the media.
They're showing their true colors here, and looking stupid doing it.

DANNY GLOVER IS A MORON

How nice...the man hadn't been dead for 24 hours, and already the Hollywood
left is dancing on his grave. Never mind that President Reagan was one of
them...an actor and once the president of the Screen Actors Guild. None of
that matters. All that matters is politics, politics, politics and the
bitter, resentful hate that the left has for Ronald Reagan.

Speaking at an anti-war rally in Los Angeles (go figure,) actor Danny Glover
had this to say: "We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair
to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died.
The groundwork for the move steadily to the right happened with the Reagan
administration. People want to elevate him to some mythic level; they have
their own reason for doing that." Typical liberal...everyone has an agenda
but them.

This is a pointless exercise, but someone should remind Glover that
President Reagan was directly responsible for freeing numerous countries
from the clutches of totalitarianism and their murderous regimes. But that
never mattered to the left, and it still doesn't. They hated Reagan like
they hate Bush. So fitting that supposedly tolerant liberals are so full of
hate. Time to look in the mirror, boys and girls.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

AS PREDICTED, PRESS TIES ABU GHRAIB TO D-DAY

You might have thought with the 60th anniversary of D-Day coinciding with the news coverage of Ronald Reagan's passing, that the media had briefly set aside their Abu Ghraib obsession. Of course not. Examples are not hard to find, but here's just a few:

• The Seattle Times: "The picture of the six Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi, the most-reproduced image in the history of war photography, was evoked again by Tom Franklin's photograph of firemen raising a flag atop the rubble of New York's Twin Towers after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. "It said, 'Look, we're the same people who won that war, and we're going to survive this too,' " said Buell. "It crossed generations." Then came Abu Ghraib.


• USA Today: "I am alive today thanks to the Americans and the English," says Marcellin, a French Jew who spent three years hiding from the Nazis in the South of France. His gratitude has not faded since June 6, 1944, when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy to drive out the Germans. What about the war in Iraq? "America may be right, it may be wrong," he says. The abuse of prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison? "The French did the same thing in the war with Algeria."


• The LA Times: "In both Italy and France, Bush found himself on the defensive over the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad"

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