Buckley & Reagan: Qualities of Conservative Greatness

Bruce Walker at The American Thinker has written a column about the two men who most epitomized the conservative movement in America.

Walker:

Buckley, a deeply religious man, realized that all political problems are ultimately moral problems, and all moral problems ultimately religious problems. The attempt to expunge God from politics, therefore, was the first step toward totalitarianism and the sort moldy social jelly that it Europe today.

Reagan also put God above all else. Buckley and Reagan, however, were not the sort of political-religious leaders like Huckabee. Neither man would have said a word about Romney's Mormonism. The God of Buckley and Reagan had very long arms. It was a God that Catholics and Protestants, Jews and Christians each recognized well. This God was concerned about unborn children, but just as concerned about souls trapped in the Gulag.

Walker concludes:

Buckley and Reagan were men of great gifts, but it was not their gifts alone that made them great. What made them great was certainty of moral purpose and absolute fearlessness in defending without equivocation what they knew was right. Nations always need such men. America particularly needs such men now.

Nancy Reagan hospitalized

The FDC's thoughts and prayers are with the Reagan family tonight as Nancy Reagan, 87, has been hospitalized after a fall.

Yes we can! (The American people, not the government)

There's been much discussion over Sen. Obama's "Yes, we can!" speech. You know, the one where he channels Bob the Builder.

Eyeblast has put together a Reagan remix that is oddly similar to Obama's speech - but with a wholly different outlook on who "we" is.

Obama: The Government.

The Great Communicator: The American People.

h/t: Hot Air

Happy 97th Birthday to President Ronald Reagan

The FDC would like to take a moment today to celebrate the birthday of President Ronald Reagan - The Great Communicator. Mr. Reagan inpired the optimism and imagination of The FDC, and many of millions of people all over the world. He will not be forgotten.

The Top 10 Political Speeches of All Time

Rick Moran (one of the best bloggers out there) has a run-down of his top 10 political speeches of all time. It's an amazing list that should remind Americans how proud they should be of our history.

He pegs our hero's speech at Point Du Hoc in 1984 in at #6. This was the speech Reagan gave at the 40th anniversary of D-Day.

Moran: "I challenge anyone – conservative or liberal – to watch this June 6, 1984 speech in its entirety and not get choked with emotion."

Video here.

Newt Gringrich's new book Real Change

Newt was a guest on Hannity and Colmes tonight to talk about his latest book to be released tomorrow.

An excerpt from his talk with Hannity and Colmes:

"If Ronald Reagan were alive today he would be looking around and saying we've got to compete with China and India. We've got to defeat the secularists who would drive God out of the public square. We've got to find a solution to those who would eliminate English as the common language of the country. We've got to solve immigration. We've got to defeat Al-Qaeda."