Ronald Reagan Archives - Granite Grok

Did You Just Save Western Civilization?

May 4, 2025May 4, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Last night I was the keynote speaker at the Sullivan County Lincoln-Reagan Dinner. Michelle and I had a great time. Everyone was wonderful, and it was good to finally meet some people I’d only ever known online. After my remarks, someone asked me if I would post the speech so they could have a copy. … Read more

Reagan: The Man, the Myth And the Movie

September 9, 2024 Charles Bradley

Amazing! The acting is brilliant, and the American history must be shared with every American from 9 to 99. All of us who lived when Reagan reigned as POTUS know the historical accuracy of this film is remarkable. I didn’t believe Hollywood could make a movie that fairly reflected the greatness of the Man and, … Read more

NH-NeverTrumpJournal Rewrites History … Ronald Reagan Was A Warmonger Who Supported Open Borders

March 4, 2024 Ed Mosca

Is there no limit to Mikey Graham’s Trump-Derangement-Syndrome? Apparently NOT. Now (writing this on 3/2) Mikey is promoting a piece by a CLINTON bureaucrat (IRS no less) that rewrites history … portraying Ronald Reagan as a warmonger who supported open-borders:

Our FITN Matters: From Reagan to Haley

January 19, 2024 Michael Moffett

It seemed Ronald Reagan’s political career was over in early 1980. Despite Gerald Ford having wrested the 1976 GOP nomination from him, Reagan gave the presidency one last try in 1980 at age 69—which Democrats said was too old. (Irony alert.)

Don’t Give Biden Credit. He Created This Mess

October 21, 2023 Ray Cardello

We all agree that a calm world results from a strong America. Donald Trump is the first President since Jimmy Carter not to enter U.S. Troops into a new conflict. Part of the reason for that period of peace is Trump rebuilt our military to a point where nobody dared threaten the United States or its allies.

For Immediate Release – Testerman’s Oppscore® Is Better than Reagan’s

August 22, 2022 Op-Ed

CONCORD, NH John Paul Moran, GOUSA founder, “was given the opportunity to ask Trump if he would support GOUSA’s OppScore®, the “Rotten Tomatoes of Politics” political credit rating to throw out the corrupt, self-serving rotten politicians and elect Pro- America people like him … Trump mused the question, then … he said, “Sure, I would … Read more

We Win. They Lose

March 13, 2022February 23, 2022 Ray Cardello

We win. They lose—a brilliant simple statement by one of the great communicators of our time. Ronald Reagan crafted that statement as he did many others during his two terms as President of the United States.

Wake Up and Laugh – President Ronald Reagan

January 17, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Reagan was not just a great president, he could tell a joke, on the fly, and inject humor into the business of politics, perhaps better than any president I can remember.

Wake Up Laughing – Ronald Reagan’s Cow Manure Joke

March 10, 2021 Steve MacDonald

My mom used to say (on certain occasions) that she had to laugh or she was going to cry. I bet more than a few folks feel like that now, looking over the mountain of problems that have returned to America after just a few weeks of the Biden backslide. Democrats are hiding “the bodies” and robbing the bank.

Notable Quote – Prof. Larry Arnn

December 30, 2020December 30, 2020 Skip

This is a long excerpt from the latest Hillsdale College offering, Imprimis. Are we heading headlong into a dystopian future with respect to American Freedom and Liberty? Here, Larry Arnn uses both a passage from Orwell’s 1984 and a snippet of a Ronald Reagan speech as a contrasting points: ****** “Already we are breaking down … Read more

The Eradication of Traditional American Values = The Eradication of America

November 2, 2020November 2, 2020 Ken Eyring

Traditional American values are what make America exceptional! American values are under attack, and American values are losing because Americans have been bullied into silence!

Democrat leadership across the country have supported…

There’s Going Negative in a Republican Primary and Then There’s This Attack on Steve Negron

August 31, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Have inside the beltway smear tactics infiltrated the New Hampshire CD-2 congressional primary? A recent Facebook ad claims that Steve Negron‘s campaign is 320 million dollars in debt. Hey, if you’re going to lie, go big, right, that’s what the Democrats do.

Palate Cleanser – Johnny Carson doing Ronald Reagan White House adaptation of Abbot & Costello’s “Whose on First?”

February 1, 2020 Skip

Sent in by ‘Grok Friend Leo Plante (who is also running for the NH House from Dublin / Cheshire District 9 – and whom I have endorsed personally -Skip) – Thanks!

Rewind: Trump’s Polling A Month Before the 2016 Election

September 26, 2018April 2, 2018 Steve MacDonald

In October 2016 Mr. Trump’s electoral circumstances were new and unique but the way he was being treated by his own party and the press were not. Dr. Matt Briggs (Ph.D. is statistics) and I have a great conversation about how the press treated Reagan in 1980 and how it may have affected polling before … Read more

So, which do YOU think is the correct philosophy?

September 26, 2018March 16, 2013 Skip

US President Ronald Reagan (R-CA): “Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves?“ NH State Rep. Kris Roberts (D-Keene): “Government has to protect us from our own stupidity.” One takes the attitude that Citizens are stupid and must be herded … Read more

Story About Leveling Reagan Chicago Apartment For Obama Library – “Utterly Inaccurate”

September 26, 2018January 31, 2013 Steve MacDonald

Obama Library not definitely going to be in chicagoland — Would Obama Library be safer in Beirut?

Maybe you heard the tale? A Washington Times Communities article (also reported by Newsmax) suggested that the University of Chicago, which owns the Chicago apartment property of former President Ronald Reagan, was planning to demolish it to make way for a parking lot for the Obama Library. According to the people dedicated to preserving that property, that is not true.

The claim published in Newsmax today and the Washington Times on Friday, re-posted in Drudge, that the University of Chicago is planning to demolish the Reagan home at 832 E. 57th Street to make way for a parking lot for the Obama Presidential Library is utterly inaccurate, according to informed sources in Hyde Park.

Ronald Reagan – Our First “Black” President

September 26, 2018January 21, 2013 Steve MacDonald

The Daily Tribune News has an article from two years ago, written by Michael Reagan, former president Ronald Reagan’s son. In it, he reminds us that Ronald Reagan did more economically for African Americans than our first ‘Black’ president. And that in contrast to the lefts portrayal of Conservatives, and the media’s recycling of that narrative, Ronald Reagan wanted everyone do the best they could, and to succeed, regardless of where they came from, what they looked like, or who they voted for.

Before he was elected, in speech after speech, my father said that his economic plan would improve the lives of African-Americans. In a February 1977 CPAC address, he said, “The time has come for Republicans to say to black voters: ‘We offer principles that black Americans can and do support. We believe in jobs, real jobs; we believe in education that is really education; we believe in treating all Americans as individuals and not as stereotypes or voting blocs.'”

Ronald Reagan on the important of religion – and the intolerance of those that attack it.

September 26, 2018June 16, 2012 Skip

(H/T: Liberal Logic 101)

Jeb Bush On This “Temporary” Hyper-Partisan Moment

September 26, 2018June 12, 2012 Steve MacDonald

Jeb Bush is out there shilling for compromise. “Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground, as would my dad — they would have a hard time if you define the Republican party — and I don’t — as having an orthodoxy that doesn’t allow for … Read more

Reagan

September 26, 2018October 27, 2010 Steve MacDonald

(H/T Publius – Big Government.com)