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Notice the quotes, it wasn't me that said it but a guy I met on the course yesterday. He's a lifelong R (he said and I believe him) who went into shock during the Republican primaries last year and is only now coming out of it. Claimed that he decided to investigate 3rd party candidates the day that McCain picke Palin for VP but ended up holding his nose and voting for McCain. But didn't donate a dollar or help at the local R offices.
Like me he's old enough to remember when Reagan came in and hates what the "Reagan legacy project" has been up to since its inception. I actually thought that all Rs were fans and supporters of it, but he claims he isn't. For those of you who don't know what it is it's basically a project dreamt up by (can't recall the guy's name) the d'bag that is always running around saying he wants to shrink government and then drown it in a bathtub, with help from the usual suspects; Frank Luntz, Daneesh D'sousa etc.
Their (supposed) goal is to get something, anything renamed to honor Reagan in every county and city in the country. Their real goal is to rewrite history and turn everyone's opinion to "Reagan was the greatest P who ever lived", by distorting his record. This one seems to be working much better because there's only a couple of thousand building, bridges, sewage plants and other stuff with Reagan's name, but there are millions of loyalists who listen every time Hannity and others spout the crap that "Reagan won the cold war, he created more jobs with his tax cuts, he shrank government, blah, blah blah.
It was great listening to a thinking Republican instead of reading the same old, same old coming from the righties on here. Great guy, bit of a sandbagger though, he won $5 off of me.
When Reagan ran for president I remember laughing with some friends and saying; "Can you imagine that anyone would vote for a movie actor for president?" Sure he had been elected governor in CA but folks in California were always doing something strange. When he was elected....and then re-elected I thought the country had lost their collective minds. I didn't then....and still don't today....understand what in the world anyone saw in the guy.
Reagan was a epic fail...the creator of todays mess.
if you want to look at someone for the mess created these days, you shall have to look further back than that. try looking back to the facist days of fdr before thinking about Reagan.
Reagan was great because he was old enough to really know the scum, the Leftists/Marxists/Communists/Liberals from his days in Hollywood. When the first wave of these anti-American people came to America from Eastern Europe, many settled around NY, Chicago, and LA and Reagan knew what they really were.
Do you know what those terms mean and if so, please enlighten us?
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So, even in 1980, Reagan had an instinct -- and he could sniff these evil people out. That's why he was so effective. We really don't have many people like that left. Today, the idiot Foxnews type conservatives don't even understand that their media and academia (Neocons) are the grandchildren of those Eastern European immigrants who hate America and the West. They've totally usurped and hijacked the GOP and the Foxnews dupes don't even see it.
if you want to look at someone for the mess created these days, you shall have to look further back than that. try looking back to the facist days of fdr before thinking about Reagan.
Fdr was the begining of the US becoming a first world country and Reagan was the begining of us becoming a second world country.
Fdr was the beginning of the US becoming a first world country and Reagan was the beginning of us becoming a second world country.
Average unemployment during the New Deal years was 18.3%. It was still 14.3% before the military draft was reinstated in 1940 drawing hundreds of thousands of young men out of the civilian work force. The stimulus that was enacted back then had the same effect as the current one. It created a larger roll for governments and a few temporary jobs, but it eliminated more jobs in the private sector than it created in the public sector. The effect of the New Deal spending programs was not missed by our current president nor his Democrat predecessors. It created dependency on the government by the citizenry. It took away their independence along with their income and all but assured scared and desperate voters would return to office the hand that fed them. Reagan knew this too, and he despised it. BO's charade is becoming all too clear as support for his power grabbing ruse wanes. We'll come to our senses and are already beginning to do so.
Yes, none of this memorial stuff for a dead president....it's ridiculous.....you'd think he had run the country for 8 years or something. Just think we had Obama worship before he got elected, can you imagine what it's going to be like agter he passes on?
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