A Time For Choosing

This is awesome stuff from Patterico:

Republicans are angry. Obama is putting the government in charge of decisions that the Founding Fathers never intended to rest in the hands of government officials. We feel powerless to stop what we can clearly see is a disaster fully set in motion.

Some among us believe that because the left won its power with the help of deceit, lying, and dishonest tactics, we must therefore fight back by using the same tactics. As one commenter said here at my site: “spreading lies and smearing your opponent is needed to create balance and tilt odds in your side.”

No. That is not what is needed.

Here’s what is.

Yesterday Mark Levin ran Ronald Reagan’s speech “A Time for Choosing” on his radio program. It is an inspiring speech, and there is not an ounce of deception in it. You can listen to it all the way through and you won’t hear one unfair smear. It’s good old-fashioned American common sense, delivered with equal measures of humor, outrage, and confidence.

I found it online and am embedding it here. I encourage you to watch it.

This is what we need, right here:

Reagan is gone, but his spirit lives on, in Americans across the land. We must appeal to that uniquely American, freedom-loving spirit — and call it to action. The threat we are facing is every bit as perilous as the threat of which Reagan spoke. It is the end of our way of life. It is a surrender of all decisionmaking to a Centralized Group of Planners.

We can’t allow this to happen. Somehow, we have to make a stand.

Reagan’s words, spoken in a different context — yet really, not so different at all — will ring in your ears all day:

“I think it’s time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers. . . . If we lose freedom here, there’s no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.”

There is nothing to add to this.

There's my two cents.