Mr. Tancredo, tear down that fence!
I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That’s how I saw it, and see it still.
– Ronald Reagan
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It’s almost comical watching the conservative peanut gallery drool all over themselves proclaiming one person after another to be the “next Reagan” while simultaneously pissing on everything that was actually good about the man.
[...] Mr. Tancredo, tear down that fence! [...]
Kudos to you, Jon for picking up that quote from Reagain, plus your spot-on commentary.
Very kind of you sir. It really is disconcerting to see the way the conservatives pay lip service to absolutely worshiping the man, while openly disparaging pretty much everything he stood for. Reagan was practically a liberal by today’s standards, and the only candidate who can honestly claim to be his ideological descendant is treated like a side show freak.
(Of course I’d be remiss not to acknowledge that even Dr. Paul is on the wrong side of this one [as well as gay rights and abortion]. So I root for him over his peers but he won’t get my vote.)
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If you could email me I would appreciate it muchly