Comments on: Reagan’s Miracle — 25 Years Ago Today

By: ralph

ralph — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 04:13:15 +0000

Jay, it is worth documenting that guns are not the problem, but crazy (all: please feel to define your own definition of crazy) people with guns are the problem.

By: ralph

ralph — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 03:20:00 +0000

I was in the eighth grade. It was raining and the upper schooler who relayed the news to us on the bus ride home was more concerned about presidential trivia.

By: Michigan-Matt

Michigan-Matt — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 18:58:27 +0000

Jay @ #21: why don’t you go back to your blog and wait for someone to read you? I’m sure at least Ian or Mr Mod or Tim or Patrick or QueerP or CowboyBob will be along shortly to hype your numbers.

By: rightwingprof

rightwingprof — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:25:02 +0000

I was a freshman in college getting dressed to make a campaign speech (student senate, I won). Now where is my Geritol?

A freshman? I was in graduate school.

Geritol, indeed.

By: jay lassiter

jay lassiter — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 11:24:00 +0000

It’s too bad that Jim Brady is still mildly incapicated 25 years later. I’m sorry that out of this whole violent invident that 1/ guns are a bigger problem now than then and 2/ that reagan survived to piss all over the country for another 7 years.

By: Bla

Bla — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:41:14 +0000

Working in SoCal this summer, so definitely will drop by the Reagan Library. Thanks for the tip.

By: just me

just me — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:52:19 +0000

You heard your mother getting gas on the radio? I�d remember that too.

How embarrassing

That’s what happens when you still haven’t had any coffee and try to make coherant posts.

By: HollywoodNeoCon

HollywoodNeoCon — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:50:16 +0000

If anyone has the opportunity to watch it, PBS’s excellent series, “The American Experience,” did a wonderful two-parter on The Gipper a few years ago, and have repeated it a few times since it’s original airing.

The portion of the program dedicated to this event does a splendid job in bringing it home to me again and again.

I’ve since purchased the DVD, and have yet to grow weary of the nostalgia it brings.

Finally, if anyone here ever gets the chance to visit LA, a daytrip to the Reagan Library should be among your first stops. That portion of the museum dealing with the assasination attempt is humbling.

By: Peter Hughes

Peter Hughes — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:12:48 +0000

When the tragic news broke, I was sitting in my 7th grade typing class (back in the old days when the only computer around was a Radio Shack TRS-80 and we all used typewriters to write). I was so glad to hear that he’d pull through. That, too, was my defining Republican moment when I became convinced that the GOP was for me.

Thanks, GP, for reminding us of who we are and why we are here.

Regards,
Peter Hughes

By: nuyorker

nuyorker — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:36:42 +0000

and ya know not for nothing michigan matt but clinton was the leader of the free world you would think he could upgrade his choice of women….. the wicked witch of the left, paula jones and monica i mean talk about a 3 dog night

By: Michigan-Matt

Michigan-Matt — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:10:59 +0000

nuyoker, never mind GoB. He’s one of those guys who liked that fact that Pres Clinton was a sexual reprobate; it made GoB feel better knowing that the guy in the WH would understand him. These people are always bitter toward those who show strong moral conduct in their leadership.

By: John in Indy

John in Indy — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:03:44 +0000

Nuyorker - I had forgotten that quote, thanks for reminding me of it, one of his best. The mind starts to go in old age, I was a freshman in college getting dressed to make a campaign speech (student senate, I won). Now where is my Geritol?
John F in Indy

By: nuyorker

nuyorker — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:27:23 +0000

god of biscuits that reminds me of something reagan said “liberals live everyday like its April 15th republicans live everyday like its July 4th”

By: nuyorker

nuyorker — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:21:50 +0000

I was in the 4th grade I frist heard about the shooting when i got to my brothers house and i saw it on the news Reagan is the reason i am a republican so i was stunned to say the least

By: Michigan-Matt

Michigan-Matt — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:08:38 +0000

I remember hearing about it –via Reynolds on TV– getting off a plane at National and thinking, they just got started in this Administration and it’s all in peril. It was less than 3 months into the term, everyone in the WH was green, and Reagan was supposed to be speaking to a group of union types –the Reagan Democrats– that day. I stayed there at the airport and watched it all unfold… including the anger in Reynolds when he inaccurately reported the press secy was dead… Al Haig taking the mic and “being in control”… the background sense that Russia or China would use the incident to some military advantage. Washington literally ground to a halt –like on 9/11.

It all seems surreal now. It isn’t dramatic to say we almost lost RR that day. It was hellish, heartbreaking, and harrowing. The worst moment came days later when he appeared at the hospital window looking frail, worn, haggard and thin.

Thanks, Bruce, for not stopping the rememberance at the point of the shooting but noting what good came of the event… but those pictures are still powerful reminders that scratch deep emotional chords in most Americans.

By: monty

monty — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:53:11 +0000

I was in 5th, and I remember mom was getting gas, and we heard it on the radio./quote by:just me

You heard your mother getting gas on the radio? I’d remember that too.

How embarrassing.
monty

By: Melanie

Melanie — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:34:40 +0000

This is one of those, “where were you when…?” moments. I lived in Northbrook, IL at the time, and LOVED Reagan. His inspiration is what made me a Republican.

By: just me

just me — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:34:09 +0000

I was in 5th, and I remember mom was getting gas, and we heard it on the radio.

I am taking the 5th on the whole Luke and Laura thing.

By: ThatGayConservative

ThatGayConservative — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:35:11 +0000

Ya old fart! I of course was in the sixth grade then.

I was in 3rd grade, fogey (sp?).

It�s always the Republicans who rack up the national debt and the Democrats who do the dirty work.

To the detriment of the country. Too bad the Soviet Union ain’t around anymore, eh? And what were those bastards thinking nailing Alger Hiss to the wall?

I’ll agree, though. It’s the liberals who do dirty work like fucking over Cap Weinberger.

By: God of Biscuits

God of Biscuits — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:49:59 +0000

I remember hoping he wouldn’t die because that would create a martyr. His works were damaging enough. It’s always the Republicans who rack up the national debt and the Democrats who do the dirty work.