"We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right"
Amen, Bilmo, amen. But we must remember morality is not relative, there is a RIGHT and a WRONG, and the shades of grey that the weak-minded amongst us use to justify their immorality most not be allowed to colour our behavior.
Through the gut wrenching agony and tears of this sad day, we must also focus on tomorrow and the future beyond and our duty to President Reagan's legacy.
As Peggy Noonan once wrote so eloquently (unlike that whore Maureen Dowd):
Those of us who lived in and feel we understood the age of Ronald Reagan have a great responsibility: to explain and tell and communicate who he was and what he did and how he did it and why. Where he came from and what it meant that he came from there. What it meant, for instance, that he came from the political left, was trained in it, and then left it -- for serious reasons, reasons as serious as life gets. And: what it cost him to stand where he stood. That is always one of the great questions of history, of the story of a political or cultural figure -- "What did it cost him to stand where he stood?" You learn a lot when you learn the cost.
If we don't tell the young they'll never know.
Amen Peggy, amen.
And as part of Peggy's charge, we must recall the last words of the Gipper himself to the America he so loved and remember that his vision will not remain true unless we are vigilant to the cause and willing to take a stand against those who would destroy America and the freedoms we have:
I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.
