As I watch the neoconservative Republicans flounder, clueless in defeat, memories of the victories of the paleoconversatives and libertarians under Ronald Reagan loom large.
Why are some men and women different? Why do those rare ones come along at times of crisis to lift the veil of apathy from the eyes of mankind and stir the passions for a great and common cause? The simple answer may be that they have a rendezvous with destiny, and if so, surely, Ronald Reagan was one of those who kept his appointment.
Reagan’s 1964 speech for Barry Goldwater was the turning point for many of us in our youth offsetprinting. Not all of us were part of the Woodstock generation as portrayed in documentaries, but rather idealists on the Right and the libertarian part of the ideological scale who searched for something old, yet new again; a messenger to preach the gospel of personal accountability, limited central government, and to make the light in liberty’s torch burn brightly before the world. Ronald Reagan was that man, who spoke to our heart of hearts.
For a long time, there was not a day that went by when I crossed Ronald Reagan Drive in Evans, Georgia, that I did not think of him, his family, how he changed the world, or how he influenced my life, in his fundamental adherence to principle over politics, no matter the costs, even when all about you capitulate. Power never corrupted him; nor weakness ever seduced him best Deep Drawn Parts for sale. His eyes were always fixed on the future and the shining city on a hill. For too many Republicans, that shining city became Washington, D.C. when power corrupted them, and they measured leadership in big government of the right, that made possible or inevitable, the big government of the left we see today.
Leadership is a hard thing to define, but the essence of it is found in Reagan’s words: “Whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record what I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty’s lamp guiding your steps and opportunity’s arm steading your way printing china fashion clutch bags.”
Emerging conservative leaders, who aspire to be real leaders, would do well to study his life, experience his character, unique optimism and fairness, and his conviction that there were no problems for Americans, only solutions if the government and self-serving politicians would just get out of the way of a free people. As President Reagan said “Some may try to tell us that this is the end of an era. But what they overlook is that in America every day is a new beginning, and every sunset is merely the latest milestone on a voyage that never ends. For this is the land that has never become, but is always in the act of becoming.”
Sadly, many of today’s Republicans no longer believe this. They endorsed big government, trod upon civil liberties and broke the trust Reagan forged with the American people.
On June 5, 2004, Ronald Reagan gently slipped across the bar Tennyson spoke of: “Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho from out our bourne of Time and Place, The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face, When I have crossed the bar.”
I was so fortunate to meet with him a week before the election in 1980 when we felt all things were possible. Those of us present at the revolution remain Reaganites, not Republicans. There is a huge difference, but today’s Republicans don’t understand that, and will never be in power again until they do 2itb.
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