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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 11:49 PM
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It must really bug the hell out of republicans...
that the last good president they had was Lincoln.

And he'd be a democrat today.

The way I see it, Reagan doesn't count. He was an actor, so his constituents practiced a willing suspension of disbelief for 8 years. After that, myth became fact.
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Bread and Circus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 11:51 PM
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1. I kinda like some of what I know about Teddy Roosevelt. But yeah...
Reagan was aweful and his venerated status is a calculated myth.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 11:55 PM
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4. TR would be appalled at the state of the GOP today.
When he started an unnecessary war against a country that didn't threaten us, he quit his govt job & left to fight in it on the front lines.
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 11:52 PM
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2. What was wrong with Teddy Roosevelt? nt
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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 11:54 PM
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3. you never hear repubs talking about TR. It's as if he WAS a Dem.
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FKA MNChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 11:57 PM
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5. TR was pretty outspoken about "malefactors of great wealth"
and all that. He is dead to the modern Repig party,
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