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The Need to Explain

verity78 Wrote: Nov 16, 2012 12:29 AM

Dr. Sowell nails it again. President Reagan was writing and speaking on the issues important to him starting in the mid 1950's. You can find his commencement address from Eureka College, his alma mater from 1957 and it sounds the same as his appeals in 1979, and throughout his Presidency. These were his abiding principles. We need to understand and communicate our principles, to the point that we need no notes or teleprompter to express them. Principles are inviolable and can be applied to any issue or problem. We don't have a message problem, we just don't understand our principles well enough, and often lack the courage to stand up for them. http://www.facebook.com/WereWatchingGOP

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The Need to Explain

The most successful Republican presidential candidate of the past half century-- Ronald Reagan, who was elected and reelected with landslide victories-- bore little resemblance to the moderate candidates that Republican conventional wisdom depicts as the key to victory, even though most of these moderate candidates have in fact gone down to defeat.

One of the biggest differences between Reagan and these latter-day losers was that Reagan paid great attention to explaining his policies and values. He was called "the great communicator," but much more than a gift for words was involved. The issues that defined Reagan's vision were things he...

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