Friday, June 11, 2004
They hated Reagan
So Now They Think He Was Charming
Ann Coulter:
America's greatest president has gone home. God worked through Ronald Reagan on Earth and now He's taken him back.
Reagan is survived by his wife, three children, and the hundreds of millions of people he saved by winning the Cold War.
Now liberals claim they liked Reagan at the time. This is extremely believable – aren't we all fond of someone who regularly exposes us as liars, cowards and hypocrites?
Liberals loathed Reagan. Their European friends loathed Reagan – the protests against our current president are positively anemic compared to the massive protests against President Reagan when he went to visit our dear "allies," whose sorry asses we spent billions of dollars defending against the Soviets for 50 years.
Only authentic Americans loved Reagan.
From the descriptions in the media, you would think the reason Reagan was beloved by Americans was that he was an affable fellow who could tell a good joke.
Reagan was a March hare right-winger. He had enough faith in the American people to know that as long as the facts were clear, they would rise to the occasion and be March hare right-wingers, too.
Reagan forced Americans to confront the real ideological divide between conservatives and, as he said, "our liberal friends."
But now liberals are trying to muddy the political waters by passing off Reagan's popularity as a result of his personal magnetism.
While Reagan had undeniable magnetism, what set him apart was that he had the courage to speak the truth and trust the American people.
In the throes of the Cold War – still hot in Vietnam – Reagan forthrightly said liberals refused to acknowledge that the choice was not between "peace and war, only between fight and surrender."
In words that would have come in pretty handy in Spain just a few months ago, he said liberals tell us "if we only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he will forget his evil ways and learn to love us."
Reagan quoted "Mr. Democrat himself," Al Smith, for the proposition that the Democratic Party was no longer the party of Jefferson, Jackson and Cleveland, but was now the party of Marx, Lenin and Stalin. (And that was 30 years before they tried to push Hillarycare on us.)
Reagan was a bulldog, completely, implacably right-wing on every issue. He was the right-wing Energizer Bunny. He never quit and he kept beating liberals.
He cut taxes 25 percent across the board his first year in office; he walked away from Gorbachev at Reykjavik;.. he gave speeches about "welfare queens" and polluting trees; he nominated Antonin Scalia and Robert Bork to the Supreme Court; and he enraged grim liberals when he warmed up his radio mike by saying, "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
In 1980 moderate weenies in the Republican Party were trying to move him to the "center," Reagan said: "No, I'm not moving my positions any. ... I believe the same things that I've been speaking on for years, and I don't see any reason to change."
Thank God he didn't. Because Reagan lived, the world is a better place.
Rush:
They hated Reagan. I'm seeing all these hosts and everybody say, "You know, it's different out there now. I mean, Reagan and Bush, why, they're pretty much the same kind of guys ideologically doing the same things, and yet Reagan, they loved him, and Bush, he's hated."
I said, "Wait a minute. They didn't love Reagan. They didn't love him. They hated Reagan, too.
So Now They Think He Was Charming
Ann Coulter:
America's greatest president has gone home. God worked through Ronald Reagan on Earth and now He's taken him back.
Reagan is survived by his wife, three children, and the hundreds of millions of people he saved by winning the Cold War.
Now liberals claim they liked Reagan at the time. This is extremely believable – aren't we all fond of someone who regularly exposes us as liars, cowards and hypocrites?
Liberals loathed Reagan. Their European friends loathed Reagan – the protests against our current president are positively anemic compared to the massive protests against President Reagan when he went to visit our dear "allies," whose sorry asses we spent billions of dollars defending against the Soviets for 50 years.
Only authentic Americans loved Reagan.
From the descriptions in the media, you would think the reason Reagan was beloved by Americans was that he was an affable fellow who could tell a good joke.
Reagan was a March hare right-winger. He had enough faith in the American people to know that as long as the facts were clear, they would rise to the occasion and be March hare right-wingers, too.
Reagan forced Americans to confront the real ideological divide between conservatives and, as he said, "our liberal friends."
But now liberals are trying to muddy the political waters by passing off Reagan's popularity as a result of his personal magnetism.
While Reagan had undeniable magnetism, what set him apart was that he had the courage to speak the truth and trust the American people.
In the throes of the Cold War – still hot in Vietnam – Reagan forthrightly said liberals refused to acknowledge that the choice was not between "peace and war, only between fight and surrender."
In words that would have come in pretty handy in Spain just a few months ago, he said liberals tell us "if we only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he will forget his evil ways and learn to love us."
Reagan quoted "Mr. Democrat himself," Al Smith, for the proposition that the Democratic Party was no longer the party of Jefferson, Jackson and Cleveland, but was now the party of Marx, Lenin and Stalin. (And that was 30 years before they tried to push Hillarycare on us.)
Reagan was a bulldog, completely, implacably right-wing on every issue. He was the right-wing Energizer Bunny. He never quit and he kept beating liberals.
He cut taxes 25 percent across the board his first year in office; he walked away from Gorbachev at Reykjavik;.. he gave speeches about "welfare queens" and polluting trees; he nominated Antonin Scalia and Robert Bork to the Supreme Court; and he enraged grim liberals when he warmed up his radio mike by saying, "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
In 1980 moderate weenies in the Republican Party were trying to move him to the "center," Reagan said: "No, I'm not moving my positions any. ... I believe the same things that I've been speaking on for years, and I don't see any reason to change."
Thank God he didn't. Because Reagan lived, the world is a better place.
Rush:
They hated Reagan. I'm seeing all these hosts and everybody say, "You know, it's different out there now. I mean, Reagan and Bush, why, they're pretty much the same kind of guys ideologically doing the same things, and yet Reagan, they loved him, and Bush, he's hated."
I said, "Wait a minute. They didn't love Reagan. They didn't love him. They hated Reagan, too.
