Five myths about Ronald Reagan

[Flystripper]

a 1986 view of Ronald Reagan

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[Jacob]

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I love this liberal revisionist history about Reagan. Everything they called GW Bush, they called Reagan.

Ah bullshit. I was alive, adult and politically aware during the Reagan years. Nobody called him stupid.

W? Yeah, well even I called him stupid.

Tip O'Neil:

“The evil is in the White House at the present time. And that evil is a man who has no care and no concern for the working class of America and the future generations of America, and who likes to ride a horse. He’s cold. He’s mean. He’s got ice water for blood.”

and

"an absolute and total disgrace" and that it was "sinful that this man is President of the United States."

John Osborne in the New Republic magazine wrote that "Ronald Reagan is an ignoramus."

After his election, columnist William Greider said, "[M]y God, they've elected this guy who nine months ago we thought was a hopeless clown."

The Nation warned "he is the most dangerous person ever to come this close to the presidency" and that "he is a menace to the human race."

In 1982, the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London held a vote for the most hated people of all time, with the result being: Hitler, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and Dracula.

Democratic congressman William Clay of Missouri charged that Reagan was trying to replace “the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from Mein Kampf.”

In The Nation, Alan Wolfe wrote: “The United States has embarked on a course so deeply reactionary, so negative and mean-spirited, so chauvinistic and self-deceptive that our times may soon rival the McCarthy era.”

“What is the world to think,” New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis wrote, “when the greatest of powers is led by a man who applies to the most difficult human problem a simplistic theology?”

[Jacob]

Partisanship makes smart men into blubbering fools.

Exhibits A-f Paul Krugman

Exhbit G: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...020704538.html
Eugene Robinson today in the Washington Post declaring that demorcats are the heirs to Reagan's political philosophy based on the following evidence:

Taxes were once raised in California 25 years before he was president
He failed to accomplish his stated goal of eliminating the Dept of Ed (though he mostly defunded it)
He passed huge tax cuts as president, but the weren't all permanent (allegedly)
He once made a populist statement


And how do we know that Democrats are his heirs? Well, Bill Clinton passed welfare reform...after vetoing the GOP bill twice.

According to Robinson, Reagan believed this "In a big state or a big country, big government was a given." Despite the fact that he repeatedly said this:

The conservative now quotes Thomas Paine, a longtime refuge of the liberals: ‘Government is a necessary evil; let us have as little of it as possible.’”

[Jacob]

could have someone as careful with his words as Hitchens write the following:

You've got a great sense of humor.

[Borderline Divine]

Yeah, uh Jacob

I didn't doubt a google search could provide numerous examples of partisan bad-mouthing of Reagan while he was in office.

I stand by my statement, born of nothing more than personal opinion, that it was in the main extremists who were foolish enough to have a low opinion of the native intelligence of Ronald Wilson Reagan.

I stated that opinion above as a response to a post saying that "everything" the left said about George W. had been said about The Great Communicator. I feel that statement was over broad by a factor of around 1000X.

[creekster]

I didn't doubt a google search could provide numerous examples of partisan bad-mouthing of Reagan while he was in office.

I stand by my statement, born of nothing more than personal opinion, that it was in the main extremists who were foolish enough to have a low opinion of the native intelligence of Ronald Wilson Reagan.

I stated that opinion above as a response to a post saying that "everything" the left said about George W. had been said about The Great Communicator. I feel that statement was over broad by a factor of around 1000X.

If by extremists you mean all of California west of the central Valley and much of the Eastern Seaboard,then yes, you are right.

[Borderline Divine]

If by extremists you mean all of California west of the central Valley and much of the Eastern Seaboard,then yes, you are right.

You have to admit that those are extreme geographical locations on the continent. In fact to get any farther from the center they would have to be strong swimmers.

[Borderline Divine]

Bob Bennett says Tea Party wouldn't recognize Reagan

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/28/...gan-tea-party/

Ah the freedom a man acquires when out of office.