Ms.Schlafly was the 'distaff' version of William F. Buckley, the non-
political godfather of the conservative movement.
Schlafly was a conservative icon who battled to defend 'true conservatism'
against the liberal and progressive desires and even politicians who claim
to be conservative yet weaken to the fraudulent appeal of liberalism.
This weekend her last column was a final gift, one which supports her
decision to endorse Donald Trump, a decision Schlafly made long before
he won the nomination. She cut through the bombast, the establishment
criticism and saw in Trump what millions of the electorate saw that
struck fear in the political class which rules American governance.
Her final commentary.....
Donald Trump’s surprise visit to
Mexico, where he met the Mexican
president and discussed the many contentious issues between our two
countries, reminds me of President Reagan’s important trip to Geneva
in 1985. Reagan was more than willing to sit down with the Communist
leader of the USSR in an effort to build a personal connection between
the two men without sacrificing America’s vital interests in the Cold War.
The 1985 Geneva summit was highly advertised as a potential showdown
between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the supposedly reasonable new
Soviet leader. When it was over, Americans realized that behind Reagan’s
genial affability was a steely determination to protect our country against
the threat from Soviet nuclear missiles.
Just as today’s mainstream media are bent on undermining Trump’s call to
put Americans first in our dealings with Mexico, the media of the 1980s
(led by ABC’s Sam Donaldson and CBS’ Dan Rather) were overwhelmingly
pro-Gorbachev and anti-Reagan in their daily coverage.
Left-wing celebrities from around the world converged on Geneva to support
the media narrative that a stubborn President Reagan was refusing to
consider Gorbachev’s reasonable proposals for world peace. Rep. Bella
Abzug, actress Jane Alexander and inevitable Jesse Jackson were giving
daily interviews.
I led a delegation of 25 distinguished women leaders to Geneva to support
Reagan and American nuclear superiority. The media didn’t give us much
coverage, but President Reagan telephoned me afterward from the White
House to thank me for our support.
Reagan had been elected on a promise to “win” the Cold War against the
Communist forces arrayed against America. Before Reagan, our country’s
foreign policy was controlled by men like Henry Kissinger, who thought
victory was impossible and that his job, as he famously told Adm. Zumwalt,
was “to negotiate the most acceptable 2nd-best position” for the United States.
After three decades of steady deterioration of America’s place in the world,
Trump is the first candidate since Reagan who is comfortable using Reagan’s
vocabulary of winning. Trump has pledged to make America “win” again,
instead of being cheated and outmaneuvered by our adversaries and even
our so-called allies.
Trump’s visit to Mexico recalls Reagan’s trip to Geneva in other ways, too.
At both meetings, there was one signature position on which the American
refused to budge. Reagan’s no-surrender pledge was his unwavering
commitment to the Strategic Defense Initiative, that is, to build and deploy
a system to shoot down Soviet nuclear missiles headed for our cities. With
Trump, it’s his rock-solid promise to build “an impenetrable physical wall”
on our southern border.
Both Reagan’s and Trump’s signature ideas were purely defensive weapons
to which no country could have any legitimate complaint. Reagan’s SDI was
a non-nuclear weapon whose only function was to destroy or deflect
incoming nuclear missiles.
Reagan stuck to that non-negotiable position at the summit with Gorbachev
the following year in Reykjavik, Iceland. As we now know, that’s when Gorby
realized he could never win an open competition with the United States, so
that his “acceptable second-best position” was the dissolution of the USSR
over the next five years.
Likewise, Donald Trump’s wall is not a provocative, but a neighborly idea
to stop the rampant illegality that harms both nations along the U.S.-Mexico
border. With no legitimate objection to erecting a fence, wall or other
physical barrier between our two countries, Mexico should be grateful for
Trump’s leadership and even agree to help pay for it.
The value of a wall begins with stopping “murderers” and “rapists” from
freely entering and re-entering our country with impunity, as Trump
mentioned when he announced the start of his campaign last year, but it
doesn’t stop there. Felony assault by motor vehicle is another deadly
crime that seems to be rampant by illegal aliens driving recklessly without
the licenses or insurance law-abiding Americans take for granted.
The wall would also stop the plague of heroin that has exploded during the
last few years of the Obama administration. Deaths from heroin overdoses
surpassed deaths from car crashes last year and will hit a new record this
year. Most U.S. heroin is delivered by Mexicans working for the drug cartels.
Of course, most Mexican immigrants are not murderers, rapists, drunk
drivers or drug dealers. But even the good, hardworking people who come
here from south of the border, both legally and illegally, have such low
education and skills that they can’t survive economically without massive
public subsidies to provide for the care, food, shelter, health care,
education and welfare of their children.
Voters finally have the opportunity to choose a president who will make
America first by securing our border and ending one-sided trade deals that
favor foreign workers rather than our own. Trump’s strong stance in his
meeting with the Mexican president demonstrates that Donald Trump is the
“choice, not an echo.”
Read more at http:
//www.wnd.com/2016/09/trump-in-mexico-recalls-reagan-in-geneva/#SDeVwRO8cZCaPSsA.99
president and discussed the many contentious issues between our two
countries, reminds me of President Reagan’s important trip to Geneva
in 1985. Reagan was more than willing to sit down with the Communist
leader of the USSR in an effort to build a personal connection between
the two men without sacrificing America’s vital interests in the Cold War.
The 1985 Geneva summit was highly advertised as a potential showdown
between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the supposedly reasonable new
Soviet leader. When it was over, Americans realized that behind Reagan’s
genial affability was a steely determination to protect our country against
the threat from Soviet nuclear missiles.
Just as today’s mainstream media are bent on undermining Trump’s call to
put Americans first in our dealings with Mexico, the media of the 1980s
(led by ABC’s Sam Donaldson and CBS’ Dan Rather) were overwhelmingly
pro-Gorbachev and anti-Reagan in their daily coverage.
Left-wing celebrities from around the world converged on Geneva to support
the media narrative that a stubborn President Reagan was refusing to
consider Gorbachev’s reasonable proposals for world peace. Rep. Bella
Abzug, actress Jane Alexander and inevitable Jesse Jackson were giving
daily interviews.
I led a delegation of 25 distinguished women leaders to Geneva to support
Reagan and American nuclear superiority. The media didn’t give us much
coverage, but President Reagan telephoned me afterward from the White
House to thank me for our support.
Reagan had been elected on a promise to “win” the Cold War against the
Communist forces arrayed against America. Before Reagan, our country’s
foreign policy was controlled by men like Henry Kissinger, who thought
victory was impossible and that his job, as he famously told Adm. Zumwalt,
was “to negotiate the most acceptable 2nd-best position” for the United States.
After three decades of steady deterioration of America’s place in the world,
Trump is the first candidate since Reagan who is comfortable using Reagan’s
vocabulary of winning. Trump has pledged to make America “win” again,
instead of being cheated and outmaneuvered by our adversaries and even
our so-called allies.
Trump’s visit to Mexico recalls Reagan’s trip to Geneva in other ways, too.
At both meetings, there was one signature position on which the American
refused to budge. Reagan’s no-surrender pledge was his unwavering
commitment to the Strategic Defense Initiative, that is, to build and deploy
a system to shoot down Soviet nuclear missiles headed for our cities. With
Trump, it’s his rock-solid promise to build “an impenetrable physical wall”
on our southern border.
Both Reagan’s and Trump’s signature ideas were purely defensive weapons
to which no country could have any legitimate complaint. Reagan’s SDI was
a non-nuclear weapon whose only function was to destroy or deflect
incoming nuclear missiles.
Reagan stuck to that non-negotiable position at the summit with Gorbachev
the following year in Reykjavik, Iceland. As we now know, that’s when Gorby
realized he could never win an open competition with the United States, so
that his “acceptable second-best position” was the dissolution of the USSR
over the next five years.
Likewise, Donald Trump’s wall is not a provocative, but a neighborly idea
to stop the rampant illegality that harms both nations along the U.S.-Mexico
border. With no legitimate objection to erecting a fence, wall or other
physical barrier between our two countries, Mexico should be grateful for
Trump’s leadership and even agree to help pay for it.
The value of a wall begins with stopping “murderers” and “rapists” from
freely entering and re-entering our country with impunity, as Trump
mentioned when he announced the start of his campaign last year, but it
doesn’t stop there. Felony assault by motor vehicle is another deadly
crime that seems to be rampant by illegal aliens driving recklessly without
the licenses or insurance law-abiding Americans take for granted.
The wall would also stop the plague of heroin that has exploded during the
last few years of the Obama administration. Deaths from heroin overdoses
surpassed deaths from car crashes last year and will hit a new record this
year. Most U.S. heroin is delivered by Mexicans working for the drug cartels.
Of course, most Mexican immigrants are not murderers, rapists, drunk
drivers or drug dealers. But even the good, hardworking people who come
here from south of the border, both legally and illegally, have such low
education and skills that they can’t survive economically without massive
public subsidies to provide for the care, food, shelter, health care,
education and welfare of their children.
Voters finally have the opportunity to choose a president who will make
America first by securing our border and ending one-sided trade deals that
favor foreign workers rather than our own. Trump’s strong stance in his
meeting with the Mexican president demonstrates that Donald Trump is the
“choice, not an echo.”
Read more at http:
//www.wnd.com/2016/09/trump-in-mexico-recalls-reagan-in-geneva/#SDeVwRO8cZCaPSsA.99
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