By Matt Hurley for the TIB Network:
Michael ReaganMy name is Michael Reagan, and I consider myself the luckiest man in the world.Fantastic video tribute which is available from the Reagan Library.
My mother, father and birth-mother were pro-life, and pro-adoption. Because they were, my father made me a Reagan. I've come to honor my father, not to politicize his name.
I'm here to introduce a video tribute to Ronald Reagan who was not just a great leader, but also a great dad.
On behalf of the Reagan family, let me begin by thanking everyone for all you did during the week we laid my father to rest.
It was your strength and faith, your love and support that sustained us.
Sen. Zell Miller:
In the summer of 1940, I was an eight-year-old boy living in a remote little Appalachian valley.The man was on FIRE!. If you've not seen it, go to GOP Convention.com (by clicking on the graphic below) and check it out.
Our country was not yet at war but even we children knew that there were some crazy men across the ocean who would kill us if they could.
President Roosevelt, in his speech that summer, told America "all private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger."
In 1940 Wendell Wilkie was the Republican nominee.
And there is no better example of someone repealing their "private plans" than this good man.
He gave Roosevelt the critical support he needed for a peacetime draft, an unpopular idea at the time.
And he made it clear that he would rather lose the election than make national security a partisan campaign issue.
Shortly before Wilkie died he told a friend, that if he could write his own epitaph and had to choose between "here lies a president" or "here lies one who contributed to saving freedom", he would prefer the latter.
Where are such statesmen today?
Where is the bi-partisanship in this country when we need it most?
Now, while young Americans are dying in the sands of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, our nation is being torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrat's manic obsession to bring down our Commander-in-Chief.
Vice President Dick Cheney:
September 11th, 2001, made clear the challenges we face. On that day we saw the harm that could be done by 19 men armed with knives and boarding passes. America also awakened to a possibility even more lethal: this enemy, whose hatred of us is limitless, armed with chemical, biological, or even nuclear weapons.This speech did read better than it played on television, as I expected. Cheney is a competent, but not stellar, public speaker. And I don't think anybody could have followed Zell Miller last night. But it was a good speech, with lots of content: economy and jobs, war on terror, halting weapons proliferation, etc.
Just as surely as the Nazis during World War Two and the Soviet communists during the Cold War, the enemy we face today is bent on our destruction. As in other times, we are in a war we did not start, and have no choice but to win. Firm in our resolve, focused on our mission, and led by a superb commander in chief, we will prevail.
The fanatics who killed some 3,000 of our fellow Americans may have thought they could attack us with impunity because terrorists had done so previously. But if the killers of September 11th thought we had lost the will to defend our freedom, they did not know America and they did not know George W. Bush.
In the end, who would have thought that the angriest guy at the Republican National Convention would be a lifelong Democrat? Sean Hannity was absolutely correct when he said that Zell's speech was devestating for Kerry/Edwards. Oh, I'm sure Chad and Phil will put out the usual spin (personal attacks) without addressing the substance of Sen. Miller's speech, but it won't come close to having the impact that speech had on this race.
Tonight is the big night. I expect the President will talk at length about the war on
Should be a good one...
