Reply #14: I hated Reagan so much, I registered GOP to vote against

[PufPuf23]

Reagan in the primary (for John Anderson).

Carter was a failed President but a good man but I also was predjudiced against Southerners and evangelical Christians. The underhanded dealing regarding North and the failed hostage rescue and the October surprise dealing by Reagan et al regarding the hostages was not known at the time of the election.

I hated Reagan as I was an undergrad at UC Berkeley when he was Governor and later quit a 16 year Federal career (in 1985) when he corrupted the National Forest NEPA process and timber sale return to the Feds much like the current MMS and oil. Reagan declared war on the two institutions highly successful that had most influenced my thought process in a good way. Reagan made a mockery and politicized all the good environmental legislation enacted under Nixon.

Since 1980, with the exception of military, intelligence, and police, the GOP has targeted the best functioning public institutions.

Anderson ran as an independent after losing to Reagan in the primary and I voted Anderson in the general electionover Carter, my only non-vote for the Democratic candidate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Anderson