A Timeless Declaration of Conservatism by President Reagan

In listening to this speech - which invariably leaves liberals in a state of shock and conservatives breathless - I am reminded of the timelessness of true conservative principles. The left endlessly chants their mantra that "the era of Reagan is over, stop living in the past". What they either fail to see - or see and try to ignore - is that Reagan's message is timeless. It is Conservatism. The reverence and admiration for Reagan stems not from a cult of personality - as is the sorry case for our current President - but from the fact that he held and operated on a set of conservative principles that are correct in any age, any situation.

Political, economic, military and social circumstances change and their contemporary problems change. However, the correct set of principles that shoudld be used to address them does not change: Conservatism. Just as no two physics problems are exactly the same, the underlying principles of force, energy, inertia, etc apply to coming up with a solution.

Reagan reminds us that the set of principles we need to use to address todays challenges are the same that our Founding Fathers and generation after generation of Americans have used to address theirs: Conservatism.

Listen to Reagan and remember what a real leader sounds like. What a real Conservative sounds like. Listen to him and then go out and work to get people with his principles into government.