Liberals attack what they fear, and caress with soft lies what they can’t attack.

Meant to diminish (or destroy) conservatism, one of history’s clarifying Liberal rewrites involve their “it was the best of times…” revisionism concerning Ronald Reagan, and his 8-year duel with a Democrat Congress during his ’80’s presidency.

The Left hated Mr. Reagan, but the country loved him…so any attacks against the Great Communicator not only failed to score, but actually ricocheted back into his attackers. Liberals learn quickly, and resorted to rewriting history to diminish Ronald Reagan and his principles ever since…caressing with soft lies what they can’t attack.

To hear current-day Liberals talk, it was Koom-by-ya in Washington-land in the ’80’s. Joe Klein was doing his best Sunday to push that tripe, implying that, under Reagan, Democrats and Republicans skipped and danced through DC cherry blossoms, holding hands and swooning in bipartisan bliss. In truth, President Reagan owned the high ground, and with his usual humble style, gathered public support time-after-time, forcing the Democrat Congress to bend to the will of an American people.

Everything was great, wailed Klein, until that mean Rush Limbaugh came on the scene in the ’90’s and made the Right Wing “extreme in the most egregious way”. Really, Joe?

We suspect that Klein (like his Liberal cohort) bashes conservatives with a ‘Rush Limbaugh club’ to hide a stark fearful reality… Ronald Reagan may just have been the ‘first’ Rush Limbaugh…with the added distinction of being elected to high office. (And that keeps them up at night, revising history by turning that great conservative into a Liberal hand-holder, because they can’t attack him – or his principles – directly.)

To be sure, America has had conservative voices, but we would suggest that – in the political arena of elected office – few with the effective persuasion skills of Mr. Reagan. And a hint of why those skills were so great can be heard in his farewell address.

Referring to his won nickname of ‘The Great Communicator’, he said “…I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference. It was the content. I wasn’t a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn’t spring full bloom from my brow, they came from the heart of a great nation – from our experience, our wisdom, and our belief of principles that have guided us for two centuries.”

Sounds like the philosophy that permeates a certain AM talk-radio show every day.

In truth, BlueCollar may have twisted the bounds of perspective with the statement that Ronald Reagan was the ‘first Rush Limbaugh’ when, in reality, it’s more likely that Rush Limbaugh is the present-day embodiment of much that was… Ronald Reagan.

In the words of a Great Communicator…’don’t doubt me’…

…otherwise, why would Liberals be attacking Rush Limbaugh every day?