“Conservatives have better solutions than either the Left or the moderates in our own party can come up with — ready to go, ready to improve the lives of Americans — but very few people on the Right are promoting those ideas.”
Agree, however I’ll add that it is easy to be a close-mined Liberal when economic instability is the last thing one has to worry about; now that economic instability is at the forefront of discussion people will naturally open their mines to Conservative ideals.
It is a matter of personal survival and when this is threatened the ears prick up and people start to pay close attention.
Granted Reagan was an inspirational speaker however if the economic situation had not grown so dire during Jimmy Carter’s tenure most Americans would not have tuned into Reagan’s message.
