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06/06/2004
Ronald Reagan
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Kaitlyn,
Yesterday, June 5, 2004, former President Ronald Reagan, died. The man had been cursed with Alzenheimers for the past ten years and frankly, between you and I, signs of this troublesome disease were abundant even when he was the President.
But to say such a thing is to be cursed on this day of reminisces and fond memories.
They say he was a great President, the “they” being mostly Republicans as the mean-spirited Democrats put up a fight when the vote was up to name Ronald Reagan airport after the man.
It is time for grandmother to weigh in on this President. For now, as grandmother writes this missive, I am of a conservative ideology and hope that someday you will be as well. Don’t be coming home with no liberal stupidity, Kaitlyn, or grandmother will beat your behind. At least figuratively.
For grandmother was once a liberal herself and also was her husband, Billy. Though he doesn’t admit it, Kaitlyn, but indeed he and I both were radical hippies, anti-war, anti-big-business, anti-“establishment”. A couple of aging hippies we are, Kaitlyn, but now converted to a zealous conservatism with the wisdom gained by our middle years.
Neither one of us particularly liked President Reagan but frankly this was because he was a conservative and conservatives weren’t then our cup of tea.
The people are lining up by the thousands, standing in line up to ten hours, just to walk by the man’s coffin. Grandmother has to give President Reagan another look.
I find my eyes filling with tears at the sight and sound of the eulogies and ordinary Americans so impressed by one President that they stand in line by the thousands for so long just to walk by the man’s flag-draped coffin. This in the very liberal state of California, Kaitlyn! And I know in my heart that this was a great man and that greatness has been recognized by the American people. I’ve always said we all know great when we see it never mind the intellectual pundits.
Too bad Grandmother was busy disdaining everything the man said or did. For I was a liberal, too cool to be called cool, filled with University snobbism and not impressed by a former actor’s simple words.
And yet, Kaitlyn, Grandmother has been very impressed with our current President, George W. Bush. Here is a man that almost had a legal election stolen from him by the nasty Democrats. He was President during the single most horrific attack on our country’s soil-September 11, 2001.
That attack, Kaitlyn, and I cannot emphasize this enough, Kaitlyn, was meant to destroy this country. The liberals and Democrats seem to forget this with their wild-assed, anti-American rhetoric. Do not forget that one plane was likely headed to the nation’s capital. Where congress was in session that day, Kaitlyn. Can you imagine this country’s turmoil had a large portion of our congress critters been killed in one fell swoop? No other country can hope to cope with America’s mighty army and resources. But by careful and strategic hits, well it could wreak havoc on our economy and basic institutions. It’s a terrorist’s only hope.
And yet we survived the attack in fine form. Our economy is doing great. Our national ego is upbeat and hopeful. Our military coalesced and took out the evil in lawless Afghanistan and in short shrift, boom, Saddamn Hussein rules on only in the form of a little dachshund named Cleetus. The REAL Hussein is locked up in prison, his evil spawn sons are dead, and Iraq is now a free country, Kaitlyn, now formally recognized by the United Nations!
All under this President’s watch, God Bless America.
President Bush is constantly under attack by the opposition party. The man has done more in three years than the Democrats have done in twenty. Sure, the attack on 9-11 gave him a free hand by the American public and sure, an arguably lackluster President did rise to a greatness called upon by the challenge.
President Ronald Reagan brought down the Soviet empire. He called the USSR an “evil empire”, and like George Dubya and his blandishment of “evil-doers”, he was greatly criticized for it.
Liberals don’t think that such a thing as evil exists, Kaitlyn. Hell, they don’t even believe in just plain “bad” as possible. Liberals don’t know my brother-in-law.
So Bush and Reagan looked evil in the eye and called it what it was. They stared down, confronted, schemed and planned, but they got the job done and this country is safer for it.
This formerly liberal Grandmother wonders if perhaps Ronald Reagan was treated the same shabby way as our current President. And I know that he was. Grandmother was one of the citizens busy putting the doddering old guy down any chance she had.
But the United States of America, Kaitlyn, by way of the very ordinary citizens who carry this country on their back, are flipping the bird to the liberal pundits and the University Elites. They simply don’t care what the wiser than wise tell them how to THINK, Kaitlyn. They loved Ronald Reagan and they keep lining up and lining up and lining up. Just to walk by the man’s coffin, Kaitlyn.
For a great leader is inside and they know it.
Sometimes, Kaitlyn, greatness is nothing much more than speaking a plain truth and speaking it loud.
You’d be surprised at the incongruity that the very politicians that we elect often are not even capable of this.
God Bless President Ronald Reagan for this formerly liberal Grandmother is impressed all to hell.
And God, as always, Bless America.
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