Reply #7: All that proves is that RR was a ruthless politician who was prepared

[WCGreen]

to do anything, including scaring the shit out of American's when he knew the Soviet Union was crumbling from within...

Resorting to veiled racism with his imaginary "welfare Queen" riding around in Chicago in a Caddy...

Opening his campaign in the town where three civil rights activists were killed which sent a veiled message to the south that RR was not going to bitch about Civil Rights or stand in the way of States Rigths...

Teasing the people into supporting deep tax cuts for the wealthy by convincing a population reeling from three years of of high interest rates and high unemployment that Supply Side economics was the answer...

All this while the country was in the worst Recession since the great depression...

And don't forget the Iranian deal, the Rumsfled photo with Saddam, the rise of Japan as an economic threat to the US and a whole lot of other shit that changed this country for ever...

And not in a good way...

I lived through those years as an adult and let me tell you, I don't think the man was great president...

I don't even think he was a good president...

I think he was an archaic man who lusted after power and would do whatever his handlers told him to do in order to grab that brass ring; the presidency...

We are still living in the shadow of one of the worst presidencies of all time...

And I'm not talking Jr...

And that democratic majority in the south...

Those were dem's who still believed in Jim Crow, who still resisted segregation of any kind, who would do anything RR wanted them to do in order to keep their military base or military contractor up and running in their districts and fought hard against any labor, environmental laws and women's rights legistlation...

They were all dems until 1994 when they showed their true color by bolting the party to follow Newt...