“Ronald Reagan” on The Daily Caller

Speaking on a conference call Sunday night hosted by Tea Party Patriots, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich committed Republican political sacrilege, admitting to a fight with President Reagan on the issue of tax cuts. (more)

Happy State of the Union day!  (more)

They say that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I say that those who don’t learn from past success are doomed to fall short of former glories. (more)

Radio talk show host Mark Levin says he couldn’t vote for Texas Rep. Ron Paul in the general election even if the Texas congressman were to somehow win the Republican nomination. (more)

Meghan McCain, the daughter of Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain, often refers to herself as a Republican, but rarely as a “conservative.” And on Wednesday night’s broadcast of “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” she suggested former President Ronald Reagan would fall in line with her — especially on the issue of same-sex marriage. (more)

An endorsement, and what follows it, speaks not just to the object of the endorsement, but also the person making it. (more)

When Rick Santorum’s nephew endorsed Ron Paul in an op-ed in The Daily Caller this week, he wrote: “If you want another big government politician who supports the status quo to run our country, you should vote for my uncle Rick Santorum.” Santorum respectfully and lovingly dismissed his young nephew’s endorsement. The senator said his nephew was just “going through a phase,” and later added: “I am a Reagan conservative. I am not a libertarian. And the people who are calling me a big government guy are libertarians.” (more)

Newt Gingrich’s fall in Iowa has been attributed to many factors, ranging from attack ads to poor organization. But Gingrich also made a critical mistake that most losing politicians do: his campaign was focused on the past. From his promise to be the “Reagan Republican” to his 21st Century Contract with America, Gingrich kept asking people to vote for a return to the past. But voters want the next great American leader. And that’s what a successful campaign and candidate must be. (more)

BRENTWOOD, N.H. — Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum committed one of the gravest sins in Republican politics on Wednesday evening by knocking the revered former President Ronald Reagan at a packed town hall meeting. (more)

When asked to describe his goal as president, Ronald Reagan said: “I want to be remembered as the president who made the American people believe in themselves again.” He succeeded magnificently. (more)

On Wednesday, Dick Morris said Ron Paul is “the most liberal, radical, left-wing person to run for president in the United States in the last 50 years.” Actually, Ron Paul is the most conservative person to run for president in the last 50 years. Understanding this first requires at least a minimal understanding of traditional American conservatism. (more)

It seems apparent to some that America is headed for a new dark age, with the destruction of American Exceptionalism thanks to our young and manifestly ignorant president, the decline of America’s public schools thanks to corrupt and self-centered teachers’ unions, and the dumbing-down of our culture thanks to radical secularists and their rejection of the spiritually and intellectually self-reliant individual. (more)

Every few years, heinous Democratic policies — abortion, gay marriage, affirmative action, Hillarycare, Obamacare, to name a few — compel previously uninvolved Americans to leap into politics. (more)

Foot-in-mouth disease has beset the GOP field for president. Of course, in Washington, D.C., that kind of affliction is only as painful as the media coverage that accompanies it. Few remember that Barack Obama claimed to have enjoyed his visits to the “57 states,” but who can forget poor Dan Quayle’s spelling woes with the noble potato? (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan is asking to spend more time outside a Washington mental hospital, but a government lawyer says John Hinckley’s request is premature and that he recently lied to cover up the fact he looked at books on Reagan and presidential assassinations. (more)

The Kennedy-Nixon presidential debate of 1960 awakened Americans to the power of a good political hairdo (and a bad five-o’clock shadow). Those who listened to the debate on the radio thought Nixon performed better. But Kennedy’s suave good looks and smooth coiffure won over the TV watchers. (more)

Bored with the Penn State scandal because it didn’t implicate any prominent Republicans, the mainstream media have suddenly become obsessed with Grover Norquist’s “Taxpayer Protection Pledge.” They are monomaniacally fixated on luring Republicans into raising taxes. (more)

During a campaign stop in San Diego right before the 1980 presidential election, Ronald Reagan set the standard for how to handle hecklers. (more)

Mitt Romney is harming his general election candidacy, the GOP and America with his aggressive posturing against American immigrants. (more)

ARLINGTON, Va. — Former President Ronald Reagan was immortalized Tuesday at Reagan National Airport by a nine-foot bronze statue overlooking the entry to an airport that has already borne his name for more than a decade. (more)