Everybody here loves Ronald Reagan!

[Bjorn Against]

I know that every last one of you believes that Ronald Reagan was a great President. I know that you all supported Iran Contra, you all supported Saddam Hussein when the Reagan Administration was arming him, I know you all supported the War on Drugs, and I know you all supported massive deficits and cuts to social services. How do I know this, because Jonah Goldberg told me so. Here is what the greatly enlightened pundit had to say about you in a recent column.

One of my favorite scenes from "Stripes" is when Bill Murray's girlfriend complains about how he constantly plays Tito Puente albums. Murray responds that, one of these days, "Tito Puente's gonna be dead, and you're gonna say, 'Oh, I've been listening to him for years, and I think he's fabulous.'"

In recent years, the Tito Puente effect has afflicted liberals to a stunning degree. The press corps, the liberal intellectual establishment and the Democratic Party once considered Ronald Reagan a warmongering, senile fascist. Now it's hard to find a self-described liberal to offer anything but praise.

http://www.startribune.com/562/story/905323.html

Wow, Jonah says he has a hard time finding a liberal who does not constantly praise Reagan. With all the people in the media that Goldberg insists is liberal it seems there would be a critic of Reagan somewhere, but he can not find one.

Now because all of you support Reagan however we know that the media probably really is as liberal as Goldberg claims it is because they are only echoing the praise for Reagan that we hear all the time around these parts.

Goldberg wants people to know we should not be trusted because we only have constant praise for Reagan because he is dead, and right-wingers never embrace dead progressives. That is why you will never hear a right-winger stand up on Martin Luther King Day and pretend that King was opposed to affirmative action. No right-winger will pretend like they supported King throughout his fight for civil rights, they will not pretend like they never tried to smear him as being a dangerous communist, they will stand right up and oppose King just like they did when he was alive. Because after all Goldberg suggests it is only us liberals who love Reagan so much who grasp on to the dead and try to claim them as our own.

Now why don't we all show Goldberg just how right he is, after all if everyone here loves Reagan I am sure we will not see a single negative post about him on this thread.

[FormerDittoHead]

1. Yeah, that's some argument he's got there - one example would have done...

I wish he had given a single example of a self-proclaimed liberal who has, as he writes, nothing but praise for Reagan.

I'm thinking the 'liberal' media he's thinking of is the same New York Times which buried Bush's illegal wiretapping until after the election.

Damn that liberal media.

[Hippo_Tron]

2. I think it has everything to do with his Alzheimer's disease

If he had been out giving speeches bashing liberals after his presidency I'm not so sure people would've been as kind to him. People are going to be sympathetic to someone who has to go through that, even Reagan.

[Debs]

3. He did suffer

That cuts him SOME slack for me and I dont go out of my way to bash him but if asked I still think he was a warmongering, senile fascist. A man without any slight comprehension of reality