Dana Rohrabacher: “I was blessed to be born in California and to have lived in California at the time when Ronald Reagan was Governor of…”

“I was blessed to be born in California and to have lived in California at the time when Ronald Reagan was Governor of that State. In fact, I worked on his very first campaign. I was the Los Angeles County high school chairman of Youth for Reagan. And one little anecdote that might give people a better sense of who we are talking about is that after that campaign, it was a very hard-fought campaign, Ronald Reagan was always told during his entire career that he would lose the election that he was in because he was an extremist. And we have heard that word bandied about here today. Ronald Reagan was always called an extremist and was always told that the American people would never elect him and that he could not win, that was always the argument against him in the Republican primaries. It was a hard-fought primary and Reagan won handily. During that primary in the youth group, in the youth movement that we had there working for Ronald Reagan, there was a conflict between the Young Republicans and the Young Americans for Freedom.”