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In the discussion thread: Why do Republicans worship Ronald Reagan ?? [View all]

Wed Jul 11, 2012, 06:09 AM

kentuck (66,210 posts)

75. So they waited until Bush Sr was President before they picked up their hammers...

and tore down that wall. But it was the words of Ronald Reagan that caused it to happen? Yeah, I'm sure those East Germans, that did not speak English and did not understand Ronald Reagan, used that as their rallying cry when they were tearing down the Berlin Wall....when George Bush Sr was President... But we believe what we want to believe or what we are told to believe, depending on our political persuasion...

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136 replies	Author	Time	Post
Why do Republicans worship Ronald Reagan ?? [View all]	kentuck	Jul 2012	OP
He ended Cold War..	nmbluesky	Jul 2012	#1
As I recall...	kentuck	Jul 2012	#3
yeah, whatever credit he gets, gorby gets about 50 times that.	unblock	Jul 2012	#8
But he wasn't there when the wall came down.	kentuck	Jul 2012	#11
I pretty sure I remember some CIA analyst that wrote a book saying that the real turning point	brewens	Jul 2012	#53
The Cold War ended when Mikhail Gorbachev realized	hifiguy	Jul 2012	#31
agreed	oldhippydude	Jul 2012	#54
Really, Afghanistan ended the cold war. We are on our way ....nt	nanabugg	Jul 2012	#110
Oh he did not.	Zoeisright	Jul 2012	#70
History repeats itself ...	GeorgeGist	Jul 2012	#91
Do you suppose that's why Osama Bin Laden was...	Blanks	Jul 2012	#95
no he didn't. it was ending anyways.	pansypoo53219	Jul 2012	#105
Another GOP reagan lie. n/t	Egalitarian Thug	Jul 2012	#106
Yeeeeeeah....no.	Tommy_Carcetti	Jul 2012	#136
Nixon	CBGLuthier	Jul 2012	#2
And they were never able to shed the weight of Hoover	kentuck	Jul 2012	#9
W should have the same effect	rurallib	Jul 2012	#22
Obama was supposed to be the next Hoover...	kentuck	Jul 2012	#26
No idea. They always seem to forget him giving millions of illegal aliens blanket immunity..	truebrit71	Jul 2012	#4
Don't forget the "Cut and Run" from Lebanon.	11 Bravo	Jul 2012	#20
241 Marines massacred.	kentuck	Jul 2012	#23
had a Democrat lost that many men we would still be hearing about it!!!	oldhippydude	Jul 2012	#57
The Grenada invasion was ordered as a go before the Barracks in Lebanon.	braddy	Jul 2012	#68
How do you explain?	kentuck	Jul 2012	#74
It isn't my job to explain that to you.	braddy	Jul 2012	#111
Just as I suspected...	kentuck	Jul 2012	#113
Why attack me in a personal way because you don't know things?	braddy	Jul 2012	#114
You insinuated that you knew something that no one else knew...	kentuck	Jul 2012	#115
I never insinuated any such thing you aren't making any sense.	braddy	Jul 2012	#117
From Google	kentuck	Jul 2012	#118
Great, now you can do your own research and learn that the invasion and barracks had no connection	braddy	Jul 2012	#119
Margaret Thatcher disagreed with the invasion..	kentuck	Jul 2012	#120
The Grenada invasion was ordered as a go before the Barracks in Lebanon.	kentuck	Jul 2012	#121
I'm sorry, but you just aren't making any sense.	braddy	Jul 2012	#122
Perhaps we can agree...?	kentuck	Jul 2012	#123
followed by the incredibly heroic invasion of Grenada	rurallib	Jul 2012	#24
well he did have some help	oldhippydude	Jul 2012	#56
They worship their image of Reagan.	Archae	Jul 2012	#5
I'd say it's your fith paragraph	Populist_Prole	Jul 2012	#6
+1 and I would that his ravings about welfare queens gave them.....	wandy	Jul 2012	#19
They don't recall...	Blue Owl	Jul 2012	#7
He's dead so they can create their own Reagan reality without anybody to answer to....	cbdo2007	Jul 2012	#10
Really shows the power of a compliant media	rurallib	Jul 2012	#25
They needed their JFK...	Drunken Irishman	Jul 2012	#12
And yours is the winning answer. It was all about JFK, they had no one..n/t	monmouth	Jul 2012	#34
"Made them feel like winners" is my guess.	moondust	Jul 2012	#13
Saint Ronnie must be deified by the true believers: after all, he was the architect of the mountain	indepat	Jul 2012	#14
Stupid loves stupid!	Yavapai	Jul 2012	#15
It was his ability to lie and get away with it.	alfredo	Jul 2012	#16
they worship him because he was a winner	WI_DEM	Jul 2012	#17
He's the last Republican they remember who could speak relatively coherently	Scootaloo	Jul 2012	#18
well, as long as he had his index cards in front of him or teleprompter.	WI_DEM	Jul 2012	#27
Co/uple of Things	Iggy	Jul 2012	#21
There is some inaccurate history in that post.	braddy	Jul 2012	#112
I get it, but	Iggy	Jul 2012	#131
Why would any human "worship" another human? I've lived long enough to learn even the greatest among	jody	Jul 2012	#28
Very true.	kentuck	Jul 2012	#29
Hey, they named the most disfunctional airport in America after him.	HopeHoops	Jul 2012	#30
And every air traffic controller in the US still calls that airport "National."	The Velveteen Ocelot	Jul 2012	#35
Hell, I still call it "National". You can't get more fucked up than that place.	HopeHoops	Jul 2012	#36
I call it "DCA" or "National."	Pool Hall Ace	Jul 2012	#87
they worship an image of him that never existed	JitterbugPerfume	Jul 2012	#32
Same way they hate Democrats.	moondust	Jul 2012	#44
Union busting.	patrice	Jul 2012	#33
He won two elections, big.	hifiguy	Jul 2012	#37
Reagan wins by process of elimination?	kentuck	Jul 2012	#39
Pretty much.	hifiguy	Jul 2012	#41
And then there was that one guy . . .	HughBeaumont	Jul 2012	#89
Well, Incurious George seems to have been erased from	hifiguy	Jul 2012	#94
I can think of about a thousand DUers who have never posted a critical word about him in ten years	NNN0LHI	Jul 2012	#38
He let the modern Republican Party be the openly racist party they always yearned to be.	Ikonoklast	Jul 2012	#40
Every problem this nation has today started with a Reagan policy.	liberal N proud	Jul 2012	#42
GOP's "Reagan Legacy Project"	ErikJ	Jul 2012	#43
compared to Bush, Rmoney, Newt, Cantor, Bachmann and the rest	think	Jul 2012	#45
Because....	jberryhill	Jul 2012	#46
The Republicans have never had any heroes. They had to create one.	Zen Democrat	Jul 2012	#47
Bingo! They finally had someone that a nutjob considered worth shooting. nt	aka-chmeee	Jul 2012	#50
The Gipper was chipper--probably because he was losing his mind even early on--perfect for Repugs.	diane in sf	Jul 2012	#48
cause compared to the bushes, ford and nixon, he looks like a fucking genius...i guess	spanone	Jul 2012	#49
Because Nixon resigned, Ford didn't win election, Bush didn't win in '92, Eisenhower was too	craigmatic	Jul 2012	#51
I guess they admired his business savvy, trading guns for hostages and cocaine ...	struggle4progress	Jul 2012	#52
Shit knows its own, is all I can say.....	lastlib	Jul 2012	#55
I have been asking this question for years.	MissMillie	Jul 2012	#58
I was just a kid and I loved Reagan at that time	Abra	Jul 2012	#59
Much of what we believe is a product of the propaganda at the time, in my opinion...	kentuck	Jul 2012	#60
Because he followed the despised Jimmy Carter	Prophet 451	Jul 2012	#61
When the truth of the matter...	kentuck	Jul 2012	#64
+1,000,000,000,000	Odin2005	Jul 2012	#66
Who the Hell else do they have beside Ike?	OmahaBlueDog	Jul 2012	#62
Because he was a 2 termer who left office with his public perception dignity in tact.	phleshdef	Jul 2012	#63
Ronald Reagan, Enabler of Atrocities	Agony	Jul 2012	#65
Thanks for that interesting link...i didn't think I could despise him more than I already did...	truebrit71	Jul 2012	#97
No one discussing Ronald Reagan should be allowed to forget the Salvadoran Baby Skulls	LongTomH	Jul 2012	#67
Corporate media propaganda organ of the elites	upi402	Jul 2012	#69
Stupidity. Rewriting history. Lies.	Zoeisright	Jul 2012	#71
Because he was the incarnation of greed, corruption, ignorance, and evil.	Zorra	Jul 2012	#72
Reagan tamed inflation.	BT021	Jul 2012	#73
So they waited until Bush Sr was President before they picked up their hammers...	kentuck	Jul 2012	#75
people and presidents from Truman to ...	BT021	Jul 2012	#79
Also, we should not forget the role of Paul Volcker...	kentuck	Jul 2012	#80
Inflation was a problem all the way back to Nixon.	Blanks	Jul 2012	#98
Guns and Butter started inflation	BT021	Jul 2012	#129
I googled guns and butter and...	Blanks	Jul 2012	#132
"Guns and butter" is a classic phrase....	LongTomH	Jul 2012	#133
Why would that create inflation in the pre-Nixon era?	Blanks	Jul 2012	#134
carter appointee volker did this by jacking rates up sky high.	unblock	Jul 2012	#85
Carter tamed inflation.	ieoeja	Jul 2012	#116
your numbers are just made up	BT021	Jul 2012	#130
Interesting thread kentuck	NNN0LHI	Jul 2012	#76
Thanks Don!	kentuck	Jul 2012	#77
...	Zorra	Jul 2012	#103
LOL	NNN0LHI	Jul 2012	#126
He is all they have.	Motown_Johnny	Jul 2012	#78
Because Reaganites know how to tell a story (especially a fictional one)	JHB	Jul 2012	#81
Sounds like you have this figured out pretty well	NNN0LHI	Jul 2012	#82
He was inaugurated amid much uber-patriotic flag waving on the a split screen	lunatica	Jul 2012	#83
lack of alternatives?	unblock	Jul 2012	#84
Tell your GOP friends this one - that Reagan would never have endorsed free trade with China.	reformist2	Jul 2012	#86
I can't believe some poster hasn't claimed Reagan put the first man on the moon yet	NNN0LHI	Jul 2012	#88
In CA it was believed	goclark	Jul 2012	#90
Indeed, he did have the IQ requirement dropped that included the mentally handicapped.	kentuck	Jul 2012	#109
He made all their right wing extremism marketable	RFKHumphreyObama	Jul 2012	#92
On the 7th day he pardoned George Steinbrenner	Capt. Obvious	Jul 2012	#93
The idiots loved his movies.n/t	Autumn	Jul 2012	#96
Ronnie Was Essentially a Grifter Straight Out of Central Casting	Kurt Sperry	Jul 2012	#99
The question is did Reagan handle the press...	Blanks	Jul 2012	#100
Reagan was anti-gun, so his minions followed in his footsteps.	Tejas	Jul 2012	#101
He didn't even know he was president. He was a figure head.	demosincebirth	Jul 2012	#102
Towards the end Nacy was the Co - President	goclark	Jul 2012	#125
he could`t get the republican nomination today.	madrchsod	Jul 2012	#104
Because they had been trying to sell their crazy-ass "trickle-down" economics and racists BS	maxrandb	Jul 2012	#107
and	maxrandb	Jul 2012	#108
Anti-unionism too	NNN0LHI	Jul 2012	#127
they wanted a post-Nixon era hero to worship	lanlady	Jul 2012	#124
Who else can they worship???	RegieRocker	Jul 2012	#128
Short answer: because they were still ashamed of Nixon.	Tommy_Carcetti	Jul 2012	#135

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