Thank you. I want to thank andrew. I think he was in my first class at grove city college. I think he literally was. Thank you to pat foil and ron r robinson who is not here but thank you for all you do for young people and campuses around the country. Ronald reagan conservatives was about preserving. Thanks to cspan for being here, too. People call cspan and say thank god for cspan. There is not many sources as objective as cspan. They put it out there unedited. And let it speak for itself. There are so many talks that good on around the world and i say if there could be a camera here to capture and broadcast this and only cspan does that. What is a reagan conservative is my topic. And that is based on my new book 11 principles of a reagan conservative. This question, what is a reagan conservative you hear if you do a Google Search on the words reagan conservative it comes up with 30 Million People trying to define and what it means. And a lot of that is because so Many Republican can
Like to leave you with words from terence kirk and he wrote this the gift of special life is no less beautiful which acco acy with illany illness, lonliness, or anything else. Human life gains extra splendor as it requires special care, concern and reverence. It is through the weakest vestals vessels the lord reveals love. A former student of mine who has a down syndrome child, i shared that with him and he said that is so true. Another principle of reagan conservative. American exceptioanaliexception. Reagan thought america was a book beacon to all humanity and the last hope. He said that for 30 years before the presidency. I found a speech he gave to a tiny Womens College wall William Woods college in missouri not far from where churchhill made his irony curtain speech. And in that speech, reagan said america is less than place than an idea. Chew that over. America is less of a place than an idea. It really is. The bases of this country and our religion and the idea that deep within
Out, while this movement to build a choir of young, ideological lawyers, journalists , congressional staff, and voters has been a central priority of the right, very few social scientists have studied the effort to mobilize the students or to examine just how the Students Experience their undergraduate life in the first place. This has left us in an odd situation of not knowing if the accusations leveled against the universitys resonate with the students on his behalf vermeil, nor do we know what to anything else about the students such as when and how did they become conservative . Were under political turning points . Both before and during college. One of the issues that they care about, and how did these differ from their elders . Who do conservative students know in a larger world of conservative thought and politics . We have also been more or less in the dark except for a few media reports about how students on the right actually enact a conservative is among campus, the kind of