[Watch] Reagans A Time For Choosing On The 50th Anniversary Fifty years ago today, Ronald Reagan made his political debut with the speech in the video below. Without a teleprompter, without a speechwriter and utilizing training that ultimately labelled him The Great Communicator, the face of the conservative movement outlined what it meant to choose in 1964 between Barry Goldwater and Lyndon Baines Johnson. To paraphrase the knight in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade America chose poorly. Reagan summed up the basic truth of choosing in the fourth minute of the speech: This idea that government beholden to the people it has no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of mans relation to man. This is the issue for this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. We are now living the nightmare Reagan outlined in 1964 dollars and ephemeral life only multiple times worse as a result of choosing socialism fifty years ago. In the next two elections, the midterms next week and the next presidential election, we must again choose. Do we choose those who can get us back to prosperity, although incrementally at times, or do we choose those whose final goal is our destruction. That is our choice, and sitting out the election is a de facto vote for the opposition whether we want it to be or not. H/T Lee Edwards at National Review 