Remembering the Gipper...

“Well, we conservatives have been in Washington now for awhile, and we occasionally need to remind ourselves what brought us here in the first place: our unshakable, root-deep, all-encompassing skepticism about the Capital City’s answer to the UFO, that bizarre, ever-tottering but ever-flickering saucer in the sky called the prevailing Washington wisdom. And right now some of the Potomac seers are saying we conservatives are tired; or they’re saying we don’t have a candidate, that we don’t know what to do with ourselves this year. I even hear some of those candidates in the other party saying how easy it’s going to be to win the Presidency for their liberal agenda, because they can run on—of all things—this administration’s economic record. Boy, have I got news for them. They’re seeing flying saucers again... The real friends of the conservative movement are an entity that gets heard from in a big way every four years and who, I promise you, are going to be heard from this year. I’m talking about those who, if the case is aggressively put before them, will vote for limited government, family values, and a tough, strong foreign policy every single time. I’m talking about those believers in common sense and sound values, your friends and mine, the American people. You see, those who underestimate the conservative movement are the same people who always underestimate the American people.”

Ronald Reagan