Gipper Talk
Peter Robinson ·
Feb 4, 2011 at 12:44pm
If you have an appetite for more reminiscing about my old boss, Ronald Reagan, you might enjoy the podcast I recorded recently with Ricochet member--and podcaster extraordinaire--Jimmie Bise.
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Jul '10
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President Reagan: America Personified
Dec '10
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Fantastic podcast, Peter. I know everyone (most of all you) have their own favorite Reagan stories or personal experiences or specific reasons why they love The Gipper, and all of those are well deserved and appropriate. But I wanted to quickly share why a young man born during his presidency holds him in such high esteem today.
In short: he meant what he said, and he believed in the right things. I have respect for those who genuinely hold to their liberal ideology, but they are wrong. Reagan, in his core beliefs and values, was not. It's wildly unpopular today to label something misguided, let alone flat-out incorrect, but the prevailing liberal wisdom was wrong about tax cuts, the Soviet threat, etc. etc. Reagan saw that communism was the logical conclusion of liberal ideology put into full practice.
Which brings me to "meant what he said." I watch YouTube clips of things like the Evil Empire speech and I'm blown away that a president so recently spoke so forcefully for traditional, conservative, Judeo-Christian values/principles. He meant what he said and he said what meant. No apologies, just a gracious and affable personality.
He was great.
May '10
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Saw you on the O'Reilly Factor tonight, Peter. Great job!
Sep '10
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Thanks for sharing the story of Reagan going against the wishes of the State Department and delivering those famous lines in Berlin. The more I learn of him, the more I rue the fact that I was on the "dark side" during the days of his presidency. Although I liked him and thought him a good man, I allowed the MSM to color my judgment of his presidency. That is one reason I am so anti-MSM today. I missed a great president because I was unaware of the biases of the media.
In 1976 I went to hear him campaign in my little home town of Wilkesboro, NC. I went because he was a famous person. I had watched Death Valley Days. I knew he had been the governor of California. Although only 16 and a democrat, I thought it worth my while.
In the post Watergate era, it was nice to hear somebody speak positively about America. I regret that I didn't ask him a question at the end about selling wheat to the Russians, but I was too shy. I am happy, though, that for about 30 minutes, my trail crossed with Ronald Reagan's..
May '10
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Thank you for introducing me to Jimmie Bise's podcasts. That was great.
Feb '11
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Ronald Reagan was the first President I was old enough to cast a vote for. I was a freshman in college. (BYU, if anyone cares.)
Admittedly I and my friends considered John Anderson that year, but what got me was a short news clip of Ronald Reagan. He was loading his luggage into to the trunk of a car. (do big-time politicians load their own luggage? The cynic in me now thinks this was staged. But to a 19-yr-old college student? Cool!)
Some off-camera news person hollered 'How would you negotiate with Iran about the hostages?' or some such thing. Reagan's response was classic: (I hope I remember it correctly) He said, while still loading luggage; 'We don't negotiate with terrorists.' Or words to that effect.
After that he had my vote.
I really wish I could remember when this occurred. Must have been during the primaries. Before the 'I paid for this microphone' comment during the primary debates, which just cemented my support for him.
I only joined Ricochet so I could share this comment on Reagan's 100th birthday. :-)
Jul '10
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Arioch IV: Ronald Reagan was the first President I was old enough to cast a vote for. I was a freshman in college. (BYU, if anyone cares.)
Admittedly I and my friends considered John Anderson that year, but what got me was a short news clip of Ronald Reagan. He was loading his luggage into to the trunk of a car. (do big-time politicians load their own luggage? The cynic in me now thinks this was staged. But to a 19-yr-old college student? Cool!)
Some off-camera news person hollered 'How would you negotiate with Iran about the hostages?' or some such thing. Reagan's response was classic: (I hope I remember it correctly) He said, while still loading luggage; 'We don't negotiate with terrorists.' Or words to that effect.
After that he had my vote.
I really wish I could remember when this occurred. Must have been during the primaries. Before the 'I paid for this microphone' comment during the primary debates, which just cemented my support for him.
I only joined Ricochet so I could share this comment on Reagan's 100th birthday. :-) · Feb 5 at 7:39pm
Standing Ovation Here.
May '10
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Peter, thank you sincerely for posting this and for sharing your time with me and my listeners. I am grateful. You were a sheer delight and I enjoyed our conversation very much. My only regret is that we only had a half-hour or so. I very much hope you will have the time to come back on the show in the very near future.
And thanks to you cool Ricochet folks for listening!