keeps the democrats at bay.

I suggest reading or watching (not sure if its on Youtube) Reagan’s evil empire speech. Its another great one.

Every time I hear and/or see a Reagan Speech it brings a tear to my eye.

I am currently reading Craig Shirley’s account of the 1980 election and so many people, republicans included, couldn’t even see it then…the genius and power of Ronald Reagan and his populist conservatism. Great read and suprising how many people were “scared” of and underestimated the Gipper, even after almost beating Ford in the 1976 primary.

Were there a clear communicator of conservatism today. Someone to help accomplish what Mark Levin stated in Liberty and Tyranny, someone to effectively communicate real conservatism to the drifting and uninformed masses of our country.

“Government is not a solution…, government is the problem.” — Ronald Reagan, America’s Greatest Modern President.

to a two minute political commercial. Stuff like this is great for motivating the faithful, but it isn’t likely to get us any converts. 15 seconds is the limit of the attention span of much of the electorate and they most learn by osmosis at the watercooler among a group of people largely as uninformed as they are. Start a political conversation in a breakroom or at a local watering hole and see how much faith you have in democracy after a few minutes.

Mr. Reagan always made me sit up and take notice. I submit that there is nobody out there today that has the same effect on people.

November is coming. Is there someone in the newly elected wave that will rise to the top? Will someone emerge to be THE voice of conservatism? I pray for that. Without someone to explain to the American people what we are about and the reason to fight for the idea that America is, we will be fighting with one hand tied behind our backs.

Pray for someone that isn’t afraid to speak the truth in such a way that it inspires millions of Americans to have confidence in themselves and this country. He or she is out there. We need to be ready when that person emerges.

I don’t know of the date,
Correctly attributed, per Snopes.com
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Robert A. Hall is the actor who plays the coroner on CSI if you watch that show.

I’m 63. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I’ve worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven’t called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn’t inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there’s no retirement in sight, and I’m tired. Very tired.  

  I’m tired of being told that I have to “spread the wealth” to people who don’t have my work ethic. I’m tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.  

  I’m tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to “keep people in their homes.”  Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I’m willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.  

  I’m tired of being told how bad America is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom of the press of China, the crime and violence of Mexico, the tolerance for Christian people of Iran, and the freedom of speech of Venezuela.

  I’m tired of being told that Islam is a “Religion of Peace,” when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family “honor”; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren’t “believers”; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for “adultery”; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur’an and Sharia law tells them to.  

  I’m tired of being told that “race doesn’t matter” in the post-racial world of Obama, when it’s all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U.S. Senators from Illinois.  

  I think it’s very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government.  

  I’m tired of a news media that thinks Bush’s fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama’s, at triple the cost, were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush’s military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn’t vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.  

  I’m tired of being told that out of “tolerance for other cultures” we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and mandrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America, while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.  

  I’m tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a  three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore’s, and if you’re greener than Gore, you’re green enough.  

  I’m tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don’t think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I’m tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana.  

  I’m tired of illegal aliens being called “undocumented workers,” especially the ones who aren’t working, but are living on welfare or crime. What’s next?  Calling drug dealers, “Undocumented Pharmacists”?  And, no,  I’m not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it’s been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion.  I’m willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn’t have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military…. Those are the citizens we need.  

  I’m tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave?  Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are? Not even close.  So here’s the deal. I’ll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims, who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we’ll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.  

  I’m tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are bipartisan. And I’m tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in  Illinois , where the “Illinois Combine” of Democrats has worked to loot the public for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama’s cabinet.  

  I’m tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I’m tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.  

  Speaking of poor, I’m tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn’t have that in 1970, but we didn’t know we were “poor.” The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.  

  I’m real tired of people who don’t take responsibility for their lives and actions. I’m tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems.  

  Yes, I’m damn tired. But I’m also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I’m not going to have to see the world these people are making. I’m just sorry for my granddaughter  

  Robert  A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts  State  Senate.

Let’s see them actually cut spending and shrink government.

Saying is easy. Doing is hard.

I tried doing an NFL pick-em last year, but participation was minimal (granted my posting of them was horribly irregular); if anyone is interested in doing it this year I can post the match-ups each week, otherwise I won’t bother.

I miss redstatesports.com.

Our Declaration of Independence speaks of the unalienable rights granted by the Creator that include: Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

Our voluntary army does the following:
- They risk their life and some cases lay down their life, to protect life.
- They give up their liberty for service in order to secure liberties for others.
- They put off ‘Happiness’ to insure the blessings of God for their countrymen.

I believe the day will come when these men and women will return in vast numbers to this nation from overseas. They will be used to restore the first principles to this nation. Freely they gave, therefore freely they will receive the Honor of bringing the restoration of Life and Liberty to this land. These men and women from every generation will receive the full Honor that they have earned.

Whatever a man sows, he will reap.

New Rasmussen generic congressional numbers just posted.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/generic_congressional_ballot

48-36 Rep-Dem, Wow, just wow, is all I can say.

Got a couple of links in emails the past few days that are absolutely worth the watch.

http://www.runawayslavemovie.com/

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/obama_at_bat.html

any candidates worth voting for. The vote was split in our republican primary and the liberal got the ballot.

We no longer have a conservative option. This is the same thing that has always happened when we have tried to overthrow the liberal regimes. They get the office by default and rule as if they have been given a mandate to overthrow the constitution.

One comment:

“So wonderful. Seeing this reminds me of just how much Reagan meant to me, a foreigner. Just as Pope John Paul II as a person led me to convert to Catholicism, Reagan made me feel inside as if I could be an honorary American. He was my image of America, and I felt that even if I couldn’t really be American myself, I could, inside, be loyal to the same things he was. I’m getting a little tearful just thinking about him. ”
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at August 16, 2010 12:08 PM (CPdUf)

RWR not only inspired people, he believed in the goodness and dignity of the common man.

Gotta love it! Great video.