Not sure if the membership knows, but Scott in his role as webmaster posts shorts on YT. These are a minute or two with a different form factor for the image and is usually only a short point made by one of the guys. I state this as I did not know these shorts were even a thing until I accidentally scrolled down on my YT home page (I go to YT to make sure and watch and upvote all the BW(dot)com content.)
WHen I started liking the RA shorts, I noticed that I started getting short videos with Reagan jokes, quips and stories.
The one attached is one of those, but I dug out the longer full video.
Reagan was Governor of CA from 67-75 which makes the scenario in this story approximately 50 years ago.
This is a great response that is still appropriate today to youngsters complaining that we just don’t understand growing up in this time.
Enjoy the brilliance of Ronald Reagan.
https://youtu.be/-k43kqnqv1I
2 replies on “The Brilliance of Ronald Reagan”
I loved Ronald Reagan even though he sent me to one of the worst places I would ever experience in my life. I’m not certain he was directly responsible for that so I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Ronnie didn’t put up with any crap from anyone but … He had such a refined, gentlemanly way of not putting up with crap that he left his detractors standing on their lower lips speechless and defeated.
If Donald Trump had been half the man Ronnie was this nation would have weathered the COVID pandemic in much better shape and Trump would still be in office.
People stupidly think that somehow Donald Trump ‘offended me’. That’s not it at all. I’m no wallflower or wilting daisy that is easily offended. To offend me you have to insult me and if you insult me you’re going to get your just desserts. I cannot think of one single thing Donald Trump ever said that could be considered an insult to me by any stretch of the imagination. He never once offended me.
What he did was fail to live up to the standard set by Ronald Reagan. That’s a high standard to meet because Ronnie was wicked smart and razor sharp. He didn’t say stupid things that could be twisted and used against him. Ronald Reagan always had one eye on the ball and one eye on the hand holding the backstabbing knife. He wasn’t naïve, blusterous, brash and a bigmouth. Because Ronald Reagan knew there was more to leading the Free World than policy and ego.
Trump’s policies were great, the best since Ronald Reagan. Not all but most. If Trump could have managed in his own way to carry himself the way Reagan did he would have been unstoppable for a second term despite the cheating. Had he done that we would today be in a position to do something decisive about that cheating.
I never wanted to see Donald Trump try to copy Ronald Reagan, there is and will only ever be one Ronnie Reagan. I wanted to see him grind our enemies into the dust the way Reagan did, with the skill and finesse that make a permanent dent in their attack on our country. What Trump did was not grinding the internal political enemies of America into the dust. He threw dust in their faces which they washed off and threw back as mud.
Reagan’s influence and legacy was still with us long after Ronald Reagan went to his final reward. Not because his policies were so great, though great they were. It’s because he was a man to be admired and his accomplishments weren’t immediately razed when he left office because he had made the other side hate him with a fever. Or because he had foolishly blundered into the hands of the enemy over and over again.
If Donald Trump gets the nomination I’ll vote for him with great enthusiasm. But … Reagan proves that Trump is second best, that Trump tried for the brass ring, came close but missed. I’m hoping to see another Ronald Reagan that will do even better than Donald Trump and if possible even better than the original Ronald Reagan.
As the nation divides into two camps, the absurd and the realistic, such a person may be out there and if so I hope we see him as our candidate for President of the United States of America in 2024.
Underrated is all of the groundwork the Reagan did before running for office. He traveled the country on behalf of GE talking to audiences, and listening to people, about the dangers of communism and other policy issues.
And yes, he was enormously personable in person but as a good man, not one full of bluster. While I would vote for PDT over anything the Ds could throw out there, I find myself hoping that someone can unseat him as the nominee as I think he is very vulnerable to losing again.