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Since when did ronnie reagan become God? LMFAO. I've never seen more bird brains in one library at the same time, excluding Huntsman, that is. Good God, I think they were going to break out in song, Rockin Robin ronnie, tweet, tweet, rockin Robin ronnie, tweet tweet.
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Did you see how Meeshell avoided the Everglades question? Stupid loon.
What a mess that 3 ring GOP Circus debate was last night! For a minute I thought I had flipped on MTV and was watching the "Jersey Shore"!
One of the campaign strategies of the GOP is to pretend Bush didn't exist, so I suppose that shoving Reagan down our throats is one way to do this. What a sorry strategy.
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If the American voters TRULY studied their political history prior to voting he wouldn't have been mentioned once...they would want to put as much distance between themselves and him as possible....kinda like they have "forgotten" little Gdumbya
If the American voters TRULY studied their political history prior to voting he wouldn't have been mentioned once...they would want to put as much distance between themselves and him as possible....kinda like they have "forgotten" little Gdumbya
Yep, that full employment under "W" was unbearable!
One of the campaign strategies of the GOP is to pretend Bush didn't exist, so I suppose that shoving Reagan down our throats is one way to do this. What a sorry strategy.
At the end of two full terms, presidents generally become significantly less popular. Clinton and Reagan were both exceptions to this rule. Democrats will mention the relative prosperity of the late 1990s and gladly associate this prosperity with the Clinton presidency, but only in passing because this prosperity isn't associated with liberal policies. In fact, the policies which led to the late 90s boom were forced on Clinton by the Republiucan Congress. Reagan, on the other hand, earned his popularity by sticking to his guns even when things looked bad. He understood what was driving inflation and economic stagnation was a weak dollar. By reducing tax rates at the same time interest rates were increased relative to inflation, the dollar once again became the currency to hold. By May 1984, the US dollar reached its all-time high and the economy exploded. With 6.5 million new private sector jobs already created, inflation dropped ten points, the misery index was halved and annualized GDP growth neared double digits. This prosperity continued throughout the remainder of the Reagan presidency.
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At the end of two full terms, presidents generally become significantly less popular. Clinton and Reagan were both exceptions to this rule. Democrats will mention the relative prosperity of the late 1990s and gladly associate this prosperity with the Clinton presidency, but only in passing because this prosperity isn't associated with liberal policies. In fact, the policies which led to the late 90s boom were forced on Clinton by the Republiucan Congress. Reagan, on the other hand, earned his popularity by sticking to his guns even when things looked bad. He understood what was driving inflation and economic stagnation was a weak dollar. By reducing tax rates at the same time interest rates were increased relative to inflation, the dollar once again became the currency to hold. By May 1984, the US dollar reached its all-time high and the economy exploded. With 6.5 million new private sector jobs already created, inflation dropped ten points, the misery index was halved and annualized GDP growth neared double digits. This prosperity continued throughout the remainder of the Reagan presidency.
You may be too young to have lived through the Carter years and too young to know how much America loved Reagan. He was one of our great presidents
Reagan sent your jobs overseas to give breaks to big biz,gave an open gate policy and amnesty to illegals so big biz could exploit them and drive the wages down, union busted,CREATED Saddam Hussein and sent him trillions of dollars,created the current crop of lowlifes of the neocon movement that has plagued American politics every since,got the repukes in bed with the evangelicals,etc etc etc...he was hated by all but the rich or super ignorant...total scumbag and lower than dirt in the eyes of the working class. ...I DID live through his presidency,cheaply I might add.
OP, did you see the huge aluminum tube with turbine engines attached to wingy looking things hanging above the audience? That was the Air Force One that was retired after Ronald Reagan was president. Do you want to guess why it was there?
In addition did you happen to see the frail woman in the front row?
You're just jealous because Democrats have to go back fifty years to find presidential pride.
Reagan sent your jobs overseas to give breaks to big biz,gave an open gate policy and amnesty to illegals so big biz could exploit them and drive the wages down, union busted,CREATED Saddam Hussein and sent him trillions of dollars,created the current crop of lowlifes of the neocon movement that has plagued American politics every since,got the repukes in bed with the evangelicals,etc etc etc...he was hated by all but the rich or super ignorant...total scumbag and lower than dirt in the eyes of the working class. ...I DID live through his presidency,cheaply I might add.
I guess that's why all those Reagan Democrats supported him--because he was so bad for the working man. Emphasis on "working." Most people when given a choice between a job and government dependency will choose a job--unless of course you're union.
What a mess that 3 ring GOP Circus debate was last night! For a minute I thought I had flipped on MTV and was watching the "Jersey Shore"!
Wow MiamiRob, you could have been on the MSNBC post-debate analysis team. Such gravitas!
No sooner had the debate ended when the "analysts" were calling all the candidates morons. Infantile and unprofessional doesn't begin to describe what occurred.
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More than Bush's name
