"These are the Boys... These are the Men"

You can just sense Peggy Noonan's articulate pen seeping through this whole speech. What gives it life, though, is Reagan's soft-spoken voice. Delivered 25 years ago on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, it's plain & evident what America loved about The Gipper.

It's also apparent what Conservatives have lost over the last quarter century: the modest, conservative tone that used to bespeak the Republican brand. Now taken over by shrill-toned cacophony, or wild hyperbole, or classlessly making ticky-tack issues into headlines, or unscrupulous fear-mongering.

Anyway, here's Ronnie...



Also, I appreciated Brokaw's Op-Ed in the WSJ today. It's worth a read.