With all the remembr…

With all the remembrances that will come due to the death of Ronald Reagan, I hope the true Reagan Legacy will be brought more to the forefront.

• The ultimate discrediting and virtual destruction of communism, winning the Cold War.
• Proof (again, since the JFK lesson had been forgotten) that lowering taxes can indeed increase revenues.

Those are, I think, the top 2 things he accomplished, and in spite of all the things the liberals tried to smear him with, he won a second term in a 49-states-to-1 landslide and left office with the highest popularity rating in the history of modern opinion polls. Pejman Yousefzadeh has an amazing in-depth look at Reagan’s legacy; the “amiable dunce” who didn’t care what others thought about him and just did the right thing (ask all those who got out from under the communist boot in Europe due to Reagan’s belief that the Cold War could be won).

Reagan was the first president I voted for, and I never regretted it. The optimism he brought with him to the Oval Office and that he spread to the country is summed up in this:

“When the Lord calls me home … I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future,” he wrote on Nov. 5, 1994. “I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.”

Fittingly, he lived longer than any U.S. president. Goodbye, Gipper.

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