A positive Reagan Thread

[Snoggera]

so it won't get locked.

Gosh. He didn't personally kill my cousins in Kentucky!

What did Reagan not do to hurt your family?

[Sandpiper]

1. He never sold WMD to anyone

Who wanted to kill me personally.

[troublemaker]

4. That you know of...

[mzmolly]

2. Well he was a very good actor?!

;)

[salin]

8. well ... at the least he seemed to be nice to that monkey

he acted with...

[UrbScotty]

3. He wasn't mean-spirited

I liked his personality.

I can't say that about his VP's son.

[shraby]

5. He didn't change

my shoe size.

[Sandpiper]

6. Because I'm white

He didn't oppose my civil rights.

[lancdem]

7. He didn't claim everything he did

was "God's will."

[salin]

9. He single handedly helped bring jelly beans

to their rightful place of candy prominance (making the way for the popular jelli bellies).

Not that this had anything to do with good or bad leadership for the country.

[salin]

10. and he tried to do the same in terms of market expansion...

for ketchup.

[Snoggera]

12. Even that was a rip-off The Beatles

casually mentioned they liked jelly beans (the type in Britain had little resemblance to the ones in the States that were rock hard), and were repeatedly pelted with them during their '64 concerts.

Jelly beans, my ass.

[WilliamPitt]

11. He has joined the cycle of life

A cycle, by the way, he did everything in his power to fuck up. Matter can neither be created nor destroyed, but can only change from one form to another. The matter of Reagan will be cycled into the earth from whence it came, and since you cannot have life without death, he has done his part.

That's about the best I can do right now.

[Snoggera]

14. Let's bow our heads and pray

that the energy from that source does not choose to occupy our space at this time.

[Nite Owl]

13. His big claim to fame

is he's not as bad as what we got now. He was at the bottom and with the selection of Bush* he moved up.

[truebrit71]

15. I am a white male..

..so he didn't fuck with my reproductive rights...

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

16. He brought the issues of homelessness and hunger to the forefront of

American conversation, by creating more of it than any American president since maybe Hoover.

[salin]

17. Well... since we were all in college

or had graduated from college, he didn't set the stage to screw up financial aid and student loan programs soon enough to interfere with our ability to go to college.

[Piperay]

18. Reagan brought my family together

uptil that time my brother and I were the Democrats of the family, when Raygun got in it turned my parents into hardcore yellowdog Democrats. We all hated the man so much that we went to protests together. THANKS Ronnie for making us a closer family. :evilgrin:

[hlthe2b]

19. Look no matter how bad he was..... Bush* is so much worse:

FOCUS, guys!!!
Let the Reaganites have their moment of remembrance. If ABC and NBC's coverage is any indication-- there WILL be some balance (from all but Faux) with his "warts" shown as well as the more positive aspects. For any except the most brainwashed of RWer, the negatives have close comparisons with Bush* policies (e.g., deficits, tax cuts, illegal diversion of money for Iran Contra with lies from the administration, etc., etc). At the same time, the focus on the "GREAT COMMUNICATOR" and Reagan's own perceived importance of same, can only elicit a very unflattering comparison against Bushie*. I've also seen some discussion of the tension between Reagan and Bush I, suggesting the intense dislike apparent to many of us. If this continues to be depicted, it also does not bode well for Bush* among the Reagan faithful.

I truly have mixed feelings about Reagan. I dislike many of his policies and have not forgotten the nasty nasty attitude towards those with AIDS, disabilities, and the impoverished. He must answer to his maker for allowing those policies to be assumed and there were plenty of malicious, ruthless, Delay types in his cabinet. Still having said that I'm not sure I can believe he was truly intentionally evil, self-serving, and totally uncaring-- in the way I can believe is true of BFEE. I also don't think he was unintelligent and he certainly was not inarticulate. The Bushies* on the otherhand.....

Nancy had and has a whole lot more going for her and certainly much more to be admired than Babs or Pickles...She's even stepped forward to stop some of the ridiculous Reagan worship and mass idolatry (e.g., speaking against efforts to bump FDR off the dime)....Her role as Reagan's most trusted advisor may have rankled some, but I think it may well have held some of his more devious staffers in check and the obvious love they had for each other was clearly genuine. Not the kind of pathetic marriage of convenience that clearly marks Bush I and II marriages... From it, came Ron Jr-- a jewel, IMO. Patti seems pretty cool as well.

Let's keep things in perspective.