Yes! Yes! Yes!

This, from an email, on NRO, should be shouted from the rooftops. Or at least the top of OEOB while facing northeast.


Reagan, accepting the nomination in July 1980, said (paraphrasing): Mr. Carter asks us to trust him. But that is not the way our country works. We do not ask the people to place trust in one man. The trust is placed in the people with the leaders respecting and honoring that trust.

He went on to DEFINE conservatism further in that speech and continued to do so for 8 years, leading and building a movement in the process. He did not devote either policy or time to the objective of "getting along" with his enemies. He did not have aids talking to the WPOST and NYT to try and get his message out "fairly." He went over the heads of the press, straight to the American people in every speech and appearance he made. There was a reason Americans felt a renewed confidence in themselves and their country and that is because their President told them constantly how he had confidence in them. It's called leadership.

There is a reason he won two landslides. And it was not slick marketing and packaging. It was substance.


Bush I didn't get that, Clinton had it occasionally, Bush II once or twice. It's the gift Reagan had almost everyday, and not one borne of entitlement or arrogance, but derived directly from his palpable love of country and his faith in ordinary Americans.

Oh, and it turns out that this email was from Rush.