What is all this garbage about the infallability of Ronald Reagan?

[glarius]

I keep hearing the Republicans going on and on about how Saint Ronnie would do it like this or if only things would be done Reagan's way....everything would be solved. Even the Democrats seem afraid to say ANYTHING contradictory of Reagan....as if he is somehow untouchable!
This seems so ridiculous to me. I remember when he was President and the first time he came to Canada...I forget what the circumstances were, but I remember somehow the subject of acid rain came up....and Reagan, in all his wisdom, THOUGHT ACID RAIN WAS CAUSED BY THE TREES!....We all had a good laugh over that one.
He is also credited with stopping the cold war with the Soviet Union. As I remember it the Russians themselves came to realize communism was not working for them. I remember Gorbachev coming to Canada around that time and touring around the country observing how democracy works.
Ronald Reagan's claim to fame is that he was a genial old man...period.
Hope you don't mind me saying this.

[FSogol]

1. Reagan was scum. n/t

[Tikki]

2. Reagan was a cruel and vindictive person and corporate lackey.

Tikki

[Angry Dragon]

4. Reagan was an actor playing the part of a president

used to walk around studying cards so he knew his lines

[11 Bravo]

17. How dare you! Ronald Reagan was an heroic United States Navy fighter pilot during WWII!

Oh ... wait ... that was just a movie. Well, the senile old coot certainly THOUGHT that he had actually been a Naval Aviator. That should count for something!

[quinnox]

3. Ronald Wilson Reagan

You are right, he has become deified in America.

I'm sure statues of him in parks will be the norm if they aren't already and I just have missed them.

What a commentary on America.

[Arkansas Granny]

18. And the longer he's dead, the better he gets, or so it seems.

[Crankie Avalon]

5. He was actually a cut above the tea bag Republics of today...

...of course, that's not saying much. What I don't understand is how today's right says they love him so much when actually, if Reagan were around today they wouldn't like him anymore than they do Romney.

[yodermon]

6. Reagan raised taxes.

*wingnut head explosion*

[yellowcanine]

7. Well it is Republicans saying this so it is really not worth contesting the question.

I mean what do you really expect?

[glarius]

8. My point is that even the Democrats seem willing to concede him sainthood.

Everyone is soooo respectful of saint Ronnie.

[yellowcanine]

10. I haven't seen that.

[Zorra]

9. Reagan was stupid, and always wrong. That's why conservatives worship him.

He was their essence.

It's why conservatives, like Reagan and gw bush, for example, always fail at governing.

It would be hilarious if it wasn't so deadly.

[WI_DEM]

11. He's St. Ronnie! Even though he is now to the left of the current wacko's in the GOP

We had FDR and the GOP had nobody so they, along with the media, went out of their way to build up the legend that Reagan was a great president who brought down the Soviet Union single handedly.

[kentuck]

12. All I can say is...

A lot of people have been fooled by the Reagan bullshit.

The national debt was less than 1 trillion dollars when he took office. After the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Vietnam War, the New Deal, the Great Society, and Jimmy Carter, the debt was less than $1 trillion dollars. He quadrupled it and it has not slowed down since because the stupid politicians have followed Reaganomics over the cliff.

All I can offer you is the truth. Do with it what you will.

[loyalsister]

13. who else do they have?

W
Bush
Ford
Nixon
?
They have to go back to Eisenhower to find a decent republican and he was a socialist (by today's standards) preceded by Hoover.

Of course they have to glorify the only modern republican president who has any credibility.

[JitterbugPerfume]

14. they re-write history

it is easy when the object of worship is dead, and you do not know much about history . If they say it is so on Fox and talk radio , it must be so.

god help us

[wandy]

15. History will show that Ronald Reagen made a great contrubution.

He inspired this fellow to go on to greatness!

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Quiz. What vice president inspired 'da moose?

[bowens43]

16. Reagan was an addle brained babbling idiot.

nearly all of the major problems we face now can be traced back to that idiot's presidency.