Ronald Reagan on the Source of Liberty

Everyone needs to see this. 

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Quote of the Week: What to do about those Libertarians

This is for the liars and idiots, the morally challenged infiltrators of the conservative movement who move among us like snakes claiming “Ron Paul is not a Republican” because he espouses “libertarian” economics.

If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.

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Now, I can’t say that I will agree with all the things that the present group who call themselves Libertarians in the sense of a party say, because I think that like in any political movement there are shades, and there are libertarians who are almost over at the point of wanting no government at all or anarchy. I believe there are legitimate government functions. There is a legitimate need in an orderly society for some government to maintain freedom or we will have tyranny by individuals. The strongest man on the block will run the neighborhood. We have government to insure that we don’t each one of us have to carry a club to defend ourselves. But again, I stand on my statement that I think that libertarianism and conservatism are traveling the same path.

~ Ronald Reagan

July 1975

Inside Ronald Reagan

A Reason Interview

Manuel Klausner from the July 1975 issue

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TWO RONS MAKE A RIGHT

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This was the first shot in the real war to save the REPUBLIC

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This is the ad that touched off the skirmish.

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Schwarzenegger/ Predator. The Revelation of St. Arnold

America once had a Conservative President in the White House. The only Conservative in our generation. One of only two conservatives nominated in my lifetime for that office by the Republican Party.

And during that time I received the first of three comprehensive revelations delivered by motion picture. Blueprints to save the Republic.

The first film’s historic backdrop was the war for Central America.

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Ron Paul and National Defense ~ Quote of the Week

Ron Paul is one of the outstanding leaders fighting for a stronger national defence. As a former Air Force officer, he knows well the needs of our armed forces, and he always puts them first. We need to keep him fighting for our country.”

~ Ronald Reagan

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Genesis

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Last Chance

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What July Fourth Means to Me

Ronald Reagan wrote the following piece for Independence Day in 1981. Aide Michael Deaver later wrote: “This 4th of July message is the President’s own words and written initially in his own hand.”

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Ronald Reagan’s Tea Party Speech

In 1964 the Republican Party ran the first of only two Presidential candidates it has nominated in the last half century who actually wanted to make government smaller than it already is.

That nomination, that year, though unsuccessful, launched two Republican Institutions.

The first was “Mainstream Republicans of Washington” the brainchild of the [Slade] Gorton/[Dan] Evans/[Ralph] Munro/[Joel] Pritchard (and later [Sam] Reed/[Luke] Esser/[Rob] McKenna) wing of the Washington State Party whose mission was to turn back the tide of conservatism that so offended them in that ’64 Goldwater candidacy.  They’re still doing it.

The second, a then-recent Democrat convert,  became an American treasure over the next sixteen years. He was launched into national prominence by the following speech. If he were at a “Tea Party” today the content wouldn’t be much different.  The principles he stood for were the foundation of our freedom. They still are.

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Nuclear Fusion

 

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Jesse Helms

I got an email first thing this morning from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. That’s how I knew. Jesse Helms passed heavenward on July 4th 2008. What a year.

I have fleeting impressions of Helms who was engaged in the heaviest political battles at a time when I was engaged in basic political growth and development.

I remember he was the target of left-wing hate speech and scurrilous distortions (from both Parties) for being on point in the fight against the destruction of American Liberty and Culture.

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Quote of the Week: 2/13/2008

EXPLANATION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE PICTURE AND QUOTE:

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Two men, three first names, Part 3: The TWO DAYS

In Part Two we saw how Fred Thompson was the last man that could have pulled the old Reagan Coalition back together without re-building, without major surgery, without  re-engineering the Party, without a brokered National Convention. I reported that he is the candidate the Clintons least wanted to face (by their own estimation, not mine). We noted that he even got the endorsement of the National Right to Life Committee. But I also made the outlandish claim that they destroyed his 2008 Presidential candidacy.

 Part Three

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Best of 07 Series: Jack Metcalf and the American Spirit

 Written by Doug Parris March 18, 2007  

Jack Metcalf walked right out of the old West into Washington State Politics. Boots and all. His chiseled good looks could have filled the role of one of the guns on “Wagon Train” or a figure in a Clint Eastwood film. But Jack was no actor. He was the real deal. And he was a real conservative.

Hewn from the land in the far West

The Metcalf homestead was built from logs Jack and his father cut from trees felled on Metcalf land. After the army, but before he went to college, Jack was a U.S. Marshall in the Alaska territory twelve years before it became a state.

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Pro-Life Stalwart Passes Baton to New Generation

Dear Friends of Life,

Kathy McEntee, founder and president, March for Life of Washington, died this afternoon (Jan.12) around 3 PM. After suffering a massive stroke, she never regained consciousness. They removed life support after tests showed all brain activity had ceased.

Please remember her and her husband, Dick, their children, grandchildren, and extended family in your prayers.

Please also pray that her efforts for the cause of life will continue, and hopefully soon they will achieve the success for which Kathy and so many others like her, have strived for years to achieve, with little support, often facing ridicule and hardship for their efforts. But she, no doubt, would say that it was worth it, for the cause of God’s little ones.

I believe she received quite a welcome home today:

“Well done, good and faithful servant!”

Rest in peace, Kathy. You’ve earned it, dear!

-Elenor

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A Message from Reagan Republican and candidate Tim Sutinen

From Tim Sutinen: 

2008 is here!  New year, new elections, new challenges. 

Let’s make it a great year by fighting for lower taxes, defending free enterprise & protecting human life and our property rights. 

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Ronald Reagan’s Quiet Right Hand Man

From Floyd and Mary Beth Brown:

So who is Judge Clark? And why do you need to know more about him? He could easily be called one of the most influential advisors and closest friend of Ronald Reagan. But until now, he has been in the shadows of history.

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Thanksgiving Proclamation

From Ronald Reagan:

Two hundred years ago, the Congress of the United States issued a Thanksgiving Proclamation stating that it was “the indispensable duty of all nations” to offer both praise and supplication to God. Above all other nations of the world, America has been especially blessed and should give special thanks. We have bountiful harvests, abundant freedoms, and a strong, compassionate people.

I have always believed that this anointed land was set apart in an uncommon way, that a divine plan placed this great continent here between the oceans to be found by a people from every corner of the Earth who had a special love of faith and freedom. Our pioneers asked that He would work His will in our daily lives so America would be a land of morality, fairness and freedom.Today we have more to be thankful for than our pilgrim mothers and fathers who huddled on the edge of the New World that first Thanksgiving Day could ever dream of. We should be grateful not only for our blessings, but for the courage and strength of our ancestors which enable us to enjoy the lives we do today.Let us affirm through prayers and actions our thankfulness for America’s bounty and heritage.

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Pro Life Leaders Implode While Pro-Life Rank and File Soar

Politics Jaded. Prayer Works. Who Knew?

The Trigger

It started Sunday, November 4th. Fred Thompson, the man whom many conservatives hoped would be “the next Ronald Reagan”, committed the un-Reaganesque thumbing of nose at the pro-life plank of the Republican Party platform. It happened on “Meet the Press”.  Tim Russert, his persistent interviewer, read the entire plank aloud, and asked for Thompson’s position on it.  He opposed it.  It was a serious blow to many of his pro-life supporters.

Committed pro-lifers who are fairly new to the 30 year debate over how best to strategically end legalized abortion, might consider his mere opposition to supporting a Human Life Amendment to the U.S. Constitution acceptable, especially in light of his support for overturning Roe vs. Wade.  If one considered it long enough, one would realize that his position, supporting the overturning of Roe, and then leaving it to the states, would have allowed slavery to continue in some states. 

But it gets worse.  When pressed, Thompson said, that although he believes that life begins at conception, and that abortion is the taking of a human life, he doesn’t believe it ought to be “criminalized” (read: made illegal).

The blow set off…. 

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Romney is no Reagan When it Comes to Abortion

First we had Giuliani and his Washington state supporters aping Reagan with this line — “My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy“ – a line falsely attributed to Reagan.  Now we have Romney claiming that his change of heart on abortion is similar to Reagan’s. Romney says his position is, ”exactly what Ronald Reagan did. As governor, he was adamantly pro-choice. He became pro-life as he experienced life.”  Washington state republicans took up the same line in favor of Romney at the Evergreen Leadership Conference earlier this year and continue to try and sell it to us to this day as Garry Pagon says in this post – ”Ronald Reagan signed the most liberal abortion law in the nation when he was governor of California, and only later changed his mind to become a champion for the right to life as President. If we cannot rally and welcome new converts to the cause, we will never have the political strength we need to change the law.” 

Like the Giuliani 80/20 line, this revisionist history defies reality and takes advantage of the electorate’s short memory or ignorance of the public abortion debate pre Roe v. Wade. 

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Reagan Library to Host GOP Presidential Debate

Source: LA Times

From Times Staff and Wire Reports

February 15, 2007

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum announced Wednesday
that it would hold its first ever Republican presidential debate this
spring. The debate is scheduled for May 3 and will be televised live on MSNBC and
webcast on a new site, politico.com, where questions can be submitted
to the candidates. Nancy Reagan has invited nearly a dozen possible
participants.

So it looks like the presidential election season is upon us, whether we’re ready or not.

More information about the debate can be found at Ronald Reagan Presidential Library’s website. LOTP has one concern about this announcement. According to the report, “Mrs. Reagan will invite the major GOP Presidential candidates to the Reagan Library for a presidential debate on May 3, 2007.” What is meant by “major” GOP Presidential candidates? What is “nearly a dozen” and does it include all of the candidates? Why not invite all of the GOP Presidential candidates?

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