JBD

Here is an excerpt from the speech titled "A Time For Choosing". It was written and delivered by Ronald Reagan in support of Barry Goldwater's Presidential campaign, October 27, 1964.



Like 2008, the 1964 election was a disaster for Republicans. Many said at the time that it was the end of the party. The landslide victory of Lyndon Johnson ushered in the Great Society, a program identical in all but size to the recent stimulus package. It lead to the upheaval of the late 60s, the rise and fall of Nixon, the stagflation and Rust Belt of the 70's, and was finally snuffed out and paid for after the Reagan-led austerity of 81-82 and the subsequent 25 years of expansion that ended just last year at the hands of the statists and appeasers now in power.

And on top of all that, the most powerful and determined enemy of freedom ever to exist - Communism - was totally defeated and sent to the dustbin of history by the man talking and the party and ideology he led.

We are now at the beginning of this same cycle. The players are the same, the programs and policies identical, and the results will be as bad or worse. We are at least 15 years from recovering from the bill signed yesterday by Obama, and we will suffer greatly as a nation and as a culture unless we face the Islamists and the statists with the same resolve and courage as Reagan did in his time.

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