"I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose. We have come together here because the American people deserve better from those to whom they entrust our nation's highest offices, and we stand united in our resolve to do something about it."

These words were spoken by candidate Ronald Reagan in 1980 when he accepted the GOP nomination for President.  They are even more true today than in 1980.  We can hope candidate Sarah Palin will deliver similar words in 2012 accepting the GOP nomination on the way to victory over Obama:

Never before in our history have Americans been called upon to face three grave threats to our very existence, any one of which could destroy us. We face a disintegrating economy, a weakened defense and an energy policy based on the sharing of scarcity.

The major issue of this campaign is the direct political, personal and moral responsibility of Democratic Party leadership –i n the White House and in Congress — for this unprecedented calamity which has befallen us. They tell us they have done the most that humanly could be done. They say that the United States has had its day in the sun; that our nation has passed its zenith. They expect you to tell your children that the American people no longer have the will to cope with their problems; that the future will be one of sacrifice and few opportunities.

My fellow citizens, I utterly reject that view. The American people, the most generous on earth, who created the highest standard of living, are not going to accept the notion that we can only make a better world for others by moving backwards ourselves. Those who believe we can have no business leading the nation.

I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose. We have come together here because the American people deserve better from those to whom they entrust our nation’s highest offices, and we stand united in our resolve to do something about it. (And did he ever!)

In 1980 Ronald Reagan won the Presidential Nomination and addressed the nation in a memorable convention speech which you can access below.

A landmark event in the history of conservatism and our nation took place thirty years ago this week. In 1980 Ronald Reagan won the Presidential Nomination and addressed the nation in a memorable convention speech which you can access below.

It’s hard for some to imagine three decades have passed since this thrilling event. It was a triumph for a great man, who proved great leader, but also for the grassroots conservative movement in America. The national news media, which consisted then of CBS, NBC & ABC, did their best to belittle the event but Ronald Reagan was able to touch the nation with his speech and prayer without the filter of liberal network news anchors.

Despite his eventual landslide victory over President Jimmy Carter the outcome of that election was close up until three days before the nation voted. During the campaign the media helped Carter make the case Reagan was a ‘racist’, was not intelligent enough to be President, would start a war with the Soviet Union and would destroy ‘social programs’.

For our younger readers this must all sound familiar. Aside from the now dead Soviet Union which Reagan defeated, the media and the radical left wing makes all the same arguments. Fortunately Ronald Reagan shamed Jimmy Carter into finally having one debate three days before the election. Reagan creamed Carter and the voters shifted massively in Reagan’s favor. And the rest, thankfully, is history. Take some time over the weekend and enjoy Ronald Reagan’s convention speech delivered thirty years ago.

Palin draws even with Obama at 46% in 2012 Presidential Poll.

Democratic Public Policy Polling found some surprising results from their new 2012 Presidential Poll.  After 23 months of media bias and pummeling of Palin she draws even in a match-up against Obama at 46%-to-46%.

Of more interest is Sarah Palin’s favorability ratings which score highest of any of the named GOP candidates.  This lays to rest, for now, that Sarah Palin is somehow ‘un-electable’.  In fact, Palin is doing far better than Ronald Reagan at a similar polling point in the late 1970’s against Jimmy Carter.

Sarah’s polling numbers are even more impressive in that she continues to be the one conservative speaking out against ObamaCare, on immigration, cap and trade and deficits.  The other candidates have been more timid.

Keep up the great work Sarah…onward and upward to 2012 and the White House.  Here is the link to details of the poll> PALIN 46%/OBAMA 46%

Sarah Palin is easily the most courageous American in public life today.

In the face of the NAACP’s racist, false and ignorant rant against their fellow Americans who freely involve themselves in the Tea Party movement, Governor Palin has taken a stand on the side of liberty.

For far too many years politicians of all stripes have let the NAACP get away with such stunts. They have been afraid to risk the ire of the liberal media.  But Palin speaks from a higher level of public discourse…she speaks as an everyday American fed up with the ‘business as usual ‘politics practiced in this country for far too long.

Sarah Palin is a leader. Period.  And we can all be glad there is someone in this nation, at a time of such peril, which views change as common sense action not as an empty campaign slogan.  Here is Governor Palin in her own words:

I am saddened by the NAACP’s claim that patriotic Americans who stand up for the United States of America’s Constitutional rights are somehow “racists.” The charge that Tea Party Americans judge people by the color of their skin is false, appalling, and is a regressive and diversionary tactic to change the subject at hand.

President Reagan called America’s past racism “a legacy of evil” against which we have seen the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights. He condemned any sort of racism, as all good and decent people do today. He also called it a “point of pride for all Americans” that as a nation, we have successfully struggled to overcome this evil. Reagan rightly declared that “there is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country,” and he warned that we must never go back to the racism of our past.

His words rang especially true in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 presidential election. It seemed that with the election of our first black president, our country had become a new “post-racial” society. As one writer in the Washington Post stated: “[Barack Obama’s] election isn’t just about a black president. It’s about a new America. The days of confrontational identity politics have come to an end.”

We, as a united people, applauded that sentiment. We were proud of that progress. That’s why it is so sad to see that 18 months later, the NAACP is once again using the divisive language of the past to unfairly accuse the Tea Party movement of harboring “racist elements.”

Having been on the receiving end of a similar spurious charge of racism (in a recent frivolous lawsuit which was finally dismissed by a federal judge), I know how Tea Party Americans feel to be falsely accused. To be unjustly accused of association with what Reagan so aptly called that “legacy of evil” is a traumatizing experience, and one of which the honest, freedom-loving patriots of the Tea Party movement are truly undeserving.

On this subject, I can recommend the statement issued by a man I was proud to endorse, Tim Scott, the GOP candidate from South Carolina’s First Congressional District. Tim, poised to become the first African-American Republican Congressman from the former Confederacy since Reconstruction, is himself a sign of a hopeful, truly post-racial future for our country. It gives added meaning to his warning that “the NAACP is making a grave mistake in stereotyping a diverse group of Americans who care deeply about their country and who contribute their time, energy and resources to make a difference.”

The only purpose of such an unfair accusation of racism is to dissuade good Americans from joining the Tea Party movement or listening to the common sense message of Tea Party Americans who simply want government to abide by our Constitution, live within its means, and not borrow and spend away our children’s futures. Red and yellow, black and white, this message is precious in all our sights. All decent Americans abhor racism. No one wants to be associated with any organization that is in any way racist in sentiment or origin. I certainly don’t want to be. Thankfully, the Tea Party movement is not racist or motivated by racism. It is motivated by love of country and all that is good and honest about our proud and diverse nation.

Like President Reagan, Tea Party Americans believe that “the glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past.” Isn’t it time we put aside the divisive politics of the past once and for all and celebrate the fact that neither race nor gender is any longer a barrier to achieving success in America – even in achieving the highest office in the land?

I just spent a few beautiful Alaskan days with some beautiful Americans in my husband’s birthplace – they are Todd’s family and they are Yupik Eskimo. In the decades that our families have blended, I have never heard one proud, patriotic member judge another member based on skin color. Both Todd and I were raised to measure a person according to their capacity and willingness to love, work, forgive, contribute, and show good character. We’re joined by the vast majority of Americans in this belief whereby we measure a man by his character, not his color. Because of amazing efforts and accomplishments by those who came before my generation, it is foreign to us to consider condemning or condoning anyone’s actions based on race or gender. Being with our diverse family in a melting pot that is a Native village just days ago reminded me of that.

So to leave that remote village and return back to “modern civilization” only to hear of the NAACP’s resolution today suggesting that we Tea Party Americans don’t respect equality makes me sad for those who choose to divide these great United States. It is time to end the divisive politics.

- Sarah Palin

Reagan National Airport, Washington, DC

A statue of President Ronald Reagan is slated to be in place by the Fall of 2011 at Reagan National Airport just across the Potomac from Washington DC.

The  Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation has inked a deal with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which operates Reagan National and Dulles International Airport, to install the bronze statue of Reagan on a triangle of land in front of Terminal A at the airport.

This statue is part of the national and international plans in place by the United States government and scores of private organizations and businesses to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Ronald  Reagan’s birth next year.

Congress changed the name of the airport to honor Reagan in 1998.  There was some minor protest by the liberal media at the time but it amounted to nothing but sour grapes.  During one of the first flights into the newly named airport passengers on the aircraft broke into spontaneous applause when they were told they were on final approach to ‘Ronald Reagan’ National Airport.

Up until now, aside from the name on entrance signage and subway maps there is little at the airport to officially recognize President Reagan. This new statue will engender generations of recognition for one of the nation’s most important Presidents and the man credited by Eastern Europeans who outsmarted the Soviets and brought them into the light of liberty.  We’ll keep you posted as statue design and details are released.

Ronald Reagan’s home state of Illinois has a wide variety of events planned and recently launched an informative website we feel you will enjoy.  This includes a June Ronald Reagan Day at Wrigley Field in Chicago.  You can find the link to their site, along with other worthy political sites, in the right hand column of ReagantoPalin.com or by clicking on the link here>REAGAN ILLINOIS CENTENNIAL

One of Sarah’s strengths today is that she speaks in conversational and extemporaneous tones. She is ‘one of us’ in other words…just like a next door neighbor. Right now this serves her well and no doubt Governor Palin understands she’ll need more tightly drawn speeches once a national Presidential campaign is underway.

Sarah Palin hit a rhetorical speed bump last week when she misplaced the geographical location of Ronald Reagan’s Alma Mater, Eureka College in Illinois.

As usual the media has had a field day with this though they never  feel compelled to print anything else she said in her speech about the dangers of the Obama Administration.

One of Sarah’s strengths today is that she speaks in conversational and extemporaneous tones.  She is ‘one of us’ in other words…just like a next door neighbor.  Right now this serves her well and no doubt  Governor Palin understands she’ll need more tightly drawn speeches once a national Presidential campaign is underway.

However, let’s get back to Eureka College for just a moment.  One of  Ronald Reagan’s greatest human traits was an ability to graciously laugh at himself and therefore not take himself too seriously.  The wonderful film clip below from 1974 does in fact end with a joke about Eureka College.

It remains a disgusting spectacle the media will allow Obama to say things daily which are not accurate and yet never submit him to ‘fact checking’.  His everyday speeches, performed it seems only to gratify his ego, are rife with error.  Yet, the liberal media lets him move along with rarely a discouraging word.  President Obama, as we know, is thin skinned and takes his self-belief in personal greatness way too seriously.

Thankfully Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin are like most Americans who understand the value of self-deprecation while they seek to lift others.  Please enjoy the video and note the ending joke about Eureka College.  (For those of a younger generation, comedian Jonathan Winters mentions riding a bus with legendary movie and TV actor Fred MacMurray.  In those days the popular MacMurray made TV commercials for the Greyhound Bus Company.)

President & Mrs. Reagan

President Reagan reminded the nation that the greatest threat to freedom comes from ‘within’ the nation more so than an enemy abroad.

He could have spoken these words about America in 2010.  Never have we had a President, in Obama, and an Administration filled with elite radicals so ignorant of the majesty of freedom and free enterprise which built this nation.

President Reagan made these remarks on July 4th 1986 aboard the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY in New York harbor.  Behind him, and First Lady Nancy Reagan, is the newly restored and relighted Statue of Liberty.  As always, Reagan’s words and message are timeless.

Obama has already proven he is not a leader because leaders rise to meet the challenges of the day…they do not act to crush freedom and bankrupt their nation.

Revolting is the word which typifies the Obama Administration on a daily basis.  This is not a Presidency of, by and for the people.

This is an immoral morass of a sustained political campaign funded off the backs of American taxpayers.

President Ronald Reagan revived the FDR era ‘tradition’ of a weekly radio address to discuss important issues of war and peace abroad and peace, prosperity and the pursuit of liberty at home.

He used the power of his office to enlighten and inform.  What we have today is nothing short of taxpayer-funded propaganda from the immature and incompetent Obama.

President Ronald Reagan revived the FDR era ‘tradition’ of a weekly radio address to discuss important issues of war and peace abroad and peace, prosperity and the pursuit of liberty at home. He used the power of his office to enlighten and inform.

Think about it:  How many times have you seen or heard headlines that says ‘Obama Rips GOP in Radio Address’?  He does this repeatedly and does it, more often than not, with lies.  His 2008 Presidential Campaign just never seems to end.

Someone needs to tell him, hopefully we voters, that the Presidency is not a taxpayer funded bully pulpit for him…it is an office from which all the people are to be served and represented.

Disgustingly Obama’s usual approach is to blame Republicans for Washington ‘gridlock’ or being ‘obstructionists’.  These dishonest claims are trumpeted by Obama’s cheerleaders in the media.  No-one seems willing to remind the President he rode into office with Democratic pluralities in both houses of congress rarely seen in modern American political life.

In other words President Obama is little more than an incompetent liar.  He whines.  He whines some more and then he whines again.  Community Organizers, normally funded by labor unions, local liberal political parties or even taxpayer funded grants never have to learn how to be leaders because their ‘pay’ is assured.

Sarah Palin’s challenge is to step into the disaster created by Barack Obama. She is right to fight fire with fire in the clearest vocabulary possible. The people must stand with her and we believe they will. We hope you agree.

Sadly,  the GOP Congressional Leadership STILL have no coherent message and are afraid to label Obama as dishonest and incompetent.  You hate to have to say that about any American President but the stakes have never, ever been this high.  We are racing toward economic and possible military collapse and this is not a time for timidity.

Yesterday Sarah Palin did the nation a very big favor in her usual candid and determined way.  She called White house Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, a liar and proved her statement.

The term lie is a tough one and anyone using it must back it up.  But the time for polite and politically correct ‘chat’ is over.  With the nation staggering around the rim of oblivion we need strong and decisive voices.  We can be thankful Sarah Palin is raising hers.  The question is, when will others follow or get out of the way?

While Obama whines and the media wrap him in their  nauseous protective cloak…Americans everywhere sense that time is running short.  We’ve had enough excuses from this truly radical Administration.  Obama has already proven he is not a leader because leaders rise to meet the challenges of the day…they do not act to crush freedom and bankrupt their nation.

Ronald Reagan once stepped into the dangerous shadow of the disaster that was Jimmy Carter.  Sarah Palin’s challenge is to step into the disaster created by Barack Obama.  She is right to fight fire with fire in the clearest vocabulary possible.  The people must stand with her and we believe they will.  We hope you agree.

It was six years ago today the nation’s beloved 40th President passed away. The American pageantry of his death proved to be a rare moment of national unity. Ronald Reagan was celebrated then, as he is today, for being not only a great leader but a greater man.

It was six years ago today the nation’s beloved 40th President passed away.  The American pageantry of his death proved to be a rare moment of national unity.  Ronald Reagan was celebrated then, as he is today, for being not only a great leader but a greater man.

Humility was his constant companion as was his sense of humor.  He loved America because he loved Americans.  Each citizen, to him, was a living embodiment of liberty and a descendant of those wise souls who founded this nation with the hope we could form a more perfect union than any in the history of mankind.

He was a man who saw the office of President as a temporary position he should protect and guard well for all future occupants of that office.  To him it was an honor to serve not a place where others honored him.  He knew he did not have all the answers because he had faith in his countrymen and women that the true greatness rested with them.  Therefore as a nation we could meet any challenge, defeat any enemy and build a future of boundless opportunity for ourselves and future generations.

Ronald Reagan was also a man who revered the history of our nation but always felt the best days for America were ahead. How wonderfully refreshing. He saw in all his fellow citizens the ability to achieve great things…not only for themselves and their families…but for their communities, the country and the world.

Ronald Reagan was also a man who revered the history of our nation but always felt the best days for America were ahead.  How wonderfully refreshing.  He saw in all his fellow citizens the ability to achieve great things…not only for themselves and their families…but for their communities, the country and the world.

Ronald Reagan’s first Inaugural Address in 1981 was also the first delivered by a new President on the West Front of the Capitol.  At the end of his speech, with a voice hoarse with emotion and eyes misty with appreciation he took note of the vista in front of him with the words you will find below.

Humility was his constant companion as was his sense of humor. He loved America because he loved Americans. Each citizen, to him, was a living embodiment of liberty and a descendant of those wise souls who founded this nation with the hope we could form a more perfect union than any in the history of mankind.

Today, in 2010, at a time of great peril for our nation, it would be well for us to remember his words, his courage, his love of country and his never deflated optimism.  God Bless You Ronald Reagan for your humble, enlightened and firm leadership.

Directly in front of me, the monument to a monumental man, George Washington, father of our country. A man of humility who came to greatness reluctantly. He led Americans out of revolutionary victory into infant nationhood. Off to one side, the stately memorial to Thomas Jefferson. The Declaration of Independence flames with his eloquence. And then, beyond the Reflecting Pool, the dignified columns of the Lincoln Memorial. Whoever would understand in his heart the meaning of America will find it in the life of Abraham Lincoln.

And after all, why shouldn’t we believe that? We are Americans.
God bless you, and thank you.