Desperate, much?..."We Really Miss Reagan"

[kpete]

02.02.11 - 11:24 AM
We Really Miss Reagan

by Abby Zimet


Eager to pay off a $23 million debt racked up by the entertaining but less than competent Michael Steele, the Republican National Committee is selling....errr...honoring Ronald Reagan to mark his 100th birthday this Sunday. A new website offers nostalgic GOPers a "high quality" Reagan bobblehead ($25), the Gipper's fav jelly beans (ditto), a framed photo of his inauguration ($400?!), a bunch of stuff that says we miss him, memorable if way stupid quotes ("There you go again") and a chance to sign a birthday card. No word on how it will be delivered. Desperate, much?

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/02/02

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. I'll bet he didn't like being called Miss Reagan

Maybe someone over there could ask him.

[elias49]

2. Same people who miss Granpa Walton and Andy of Mayberry

:puke:
A couple of differences: Granpa Walton didn't fuck up peoples' lives
and Andy wasn't an idiot.

[8 track mind]

3. any word as to when Reagan toilet paper will be availible? n/t

[8 track mind]

4. On second thought, i do miss him....

here's why

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3u3PwCZfM4&feature=related

some of the best comedy came out of the Reagan occupation.......

[saras]

5. Sticker should have been signed John Hinckley

[GoCubsGo]

6. I don't know how they can miss him when...

...we're still suffering from his presidency 30 years later. I guess they don't understand that much of our current situation was based in is administration.

[handmade34]

21. they are oblivious to what harm he did

maybe voluntary ignorance???

[Raine]

7. Miss him??? It's not like he ever went away

they continually trot out his old dead decaying carcass. :puke:

[rasputin1952]

8. I miss Lincoln, TR, FDR, Kennedy,...

hell, I even miss Nixon & Ford!

I wish the country missed Reagan...we'd be far better off if he never took office.

"Bobblehead" Reagan...how appropriate.

[tanyev]

9. Pimp him out while you can, GOP, because that's not going to work forever.

The demographics are not on your side.

[yellowcanine]

10. Interesting that they are skipping right over the Bushes. Note that Reagan is to blame for Bush I.

And without Bush I there would have been no Bush II.

[66 dmhlt]

11. Didn't I just see this brilliant Raygun summary posted here on DU?

[BlueMTexpat]

19. Excellent summary!

Here are a couple that need to be remembered because their effects have resonated significantly in the years from 2001 to present:

- arming the Afghan mujahideen - the most fanatic of Afghan rebel factions (yes, there was CIA involvement under Carter, but nothing like under Raygun and not necessarily to the most fanatic factions). Iran-Contra arms also made their way to the fanatic Afghans - and the most fanatic of their Islamic "brothers" (i.e., Bin Laden & later Al Qaeda) as well; clearly CIA "know-how" did too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan#Foreign_involvement_and_aid_to_the_mujahideen

- laying much of the groundwork for the first major S&L crisis since the Great Depression - groundwork that still hasn't been completely dismantled even though we saw a much worse crisis more recently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis

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I sincerely hope that Raygun is getting his just desserts in the Great Hereafter.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

12. Ah i see it's time again for the Reagasm. nt

[hatrack]

13. And guess what - he's STILL DEAD.

Some people just don't watch the news, I guess . . .

[jenmito]

14. I never saw his long-form birth certificate!!!111!11!

[JoePhilly]

15. Too bad they are against CLONING!!!!!

maybe they could make another one.

:rofl:

[Dawson Leery]

16. This bastard started the ball rolling to get us where we are.

Reagan sold the industrial base to Asia and gave the treasury to Wall Street. Dubya finished the job.

[Arkana]

17. I don't see how.

Every time they speak it's to fellate his corpse.

[Norrin Radd]

18. I saw that on a huge SUV in the parking lot

of an overpriced cafe, here in Seattle of all places. How exactly is that idiot suffering, now, without Raygun?

[denem]

20. Under 20? You DON'T even remember Reagan

in any meaningful way. And there's 22 years of people who DID remember Reagan who have shuffled off this mortal coil.

Next up DNC: I REALLY miss JFK.

[Ganja Ninja]

22. Ah yes I remember him well.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A24UZctD--E/SpbTTCYxiII/AAAAAAAAA2Y/MLYaHial1ps/s320/Dancing+on+Reagan%27s+Grave+.jpg