The Great Divider (Reagan)

[kskiska]

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When Reagan was governor, he worried about the "very dangerous precedent" of the state Constitution's recall provision being exploited by "well-organized groups for political recrimination." Yes, that's right. Though Reagan's latter-day acolytes led the lusty campaign to recall Democratic Gov. Gray Davis in 2003, Reagan would not have approved. And for good reason: He was the subject of two recall attempts himself. The first came in 1968, and it wasn't hard to understand why a group of liberal organizers, working on a shoestring, were able to obtain hundreds of thousands of signatures for his ouster: His approval rating was an anemic 30 percent. (In the next few weeks you are unlikely to hear that Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan had roughly equivalent degrees of popularity during their presidencies, with Clinton's often higher, including when both left office.)

The activists in the second recall attempt weren't liberals, however. In 1967, Reagan, after campaigning, as he always did, as a tax cutter, passed the single largest tax hike in the history of any state up to that point. By 1971, some of his former supporters on the right had tired of what they saw as Reagan's serial betrayals of conservative principles and launched a recall movement of their own.

We didn't hear a lot about that movement when conservatives were dropping Reagan's name left and right in support of their bid to run Gov. Gray Davis out of Sacramento on a rail in large part because he had ... raised taxes.

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http://salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/06/07/reagan/index.html

[DieboldMustDie]

1. Damn! Had he been recalled as governor he would never have been President.

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[struggle4progress]

2. kick

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[Demeter]

3. Reagan the Great Deceiver

By any real measure, Reagan's Administration was a net loss for the country and the world. His reputation is built on the "good Feelings" everybody had--not on good times and the great progress made during his tenure. Reagan was the Candy Man, the supplier of drug addicts, the opiate of the masses. He started the trend of Designer Wars, drew up the blueprints for the Class Divide, and ensured that future generations would never have it as good as their parents or grandparents.