BAM!! - Rand Paul Says JIMMY CARTER Was BETTER on the Budget Than RONALD REAGAN

[Segami]

"..The Kentucky senator has been hailing Reagan lately, but a few years ago, Paul routinely knocked the Republican icon as a fiscal failure..."

As Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) ponders a presidential bid, he has lately made efforts to wrap himself in the banner of Ronald Reagan. In op-eds and speeches, the libertarian tea partier has increasingly invoked the Republicans' most holy icon, especially after being attacked by members of his party's establishment who have accused him of isolationism. Writing in the Washington Post last week, Paul likened his nuanced approach to foreign policy to what he claimed was Reagan's embrace of "strategic ambiguity." A few days earlier, at a so-called "Freedom Summit" in New Hampshire, Paul hailed Reagan as the last president who presided over the creation of millions of jobs, asserting that after the Gipper lowered tax rates, 20 million jobs were created and "more revenue came in." (FactCheck.org concluded that Paul was "falsifying evidence"—and ignoring that more jobs were created during President Bill Clinton's tenure when tax rates went up.) But Paul hasn't always cast himself as much of a Reagan fan. In fact, when he stumped for his father in 2008 and again when ran for Senate in 2010, Paul often referred to the grand old man of the GOP with a touch of disappointment and criticism. And he routinely made an assertion that might seem like blasphemy to many Republicans: President Jimmy Carter had a better record on fiscal discipline than Reagan.



In a variety of campaign appearances that were captured on video, Paul repeatedly compared Reagan unfavorably to Carter on one of Paul's top policy priorities: government spending. When Paul was a surrogate speaker for his father, then-Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), during the elder Paul's 2008 presidential quest, his sales pitch included dumping on Reagan for failing to rein in federal budget deficits. Standing on the back of a truck and addressing the crowd at the Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers picnic in July 2007, Rand Paul complained about Reagan and praised his father for having opposed Reagan's budget:

The deficit went through the roof under Reagan. So how long did it take Ron Paul to figure out that the guy he had liked, endorsed, campaigned for, campaigned for him? The very first [Reagan] budget. Ron Paul voted "no" against the very first Reagan budget… Everybody loved this "great" budget. It was a $100 billion in debt. This was three times greater than Jimmy Carter's worst deficit.

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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/rand-paul-jimmy-carter-was-better-budget-ronald-reagan

[BeyondGeography]

1. Reagan tripled the national debt in peacetime

No one will ever get the chance to do that again; you can only do it once.

[yallerdawg]

2. Reagan reduced taxes on the wealthy.

He was a simple man with a simple plan.

Cut taxes on the wealthy.

This is his legacy. This is conservatism. This is the Republican Party.

"Blah, blah, blah - cut taxes on the wealthy."

Simple.

[merrily]

3. And another RW pol fails the RW purity test.

Jeb did it recently by saying coming to America without papers is an act of love, not a felony.

Seems as though no one can sustain being totally crappy and utterly wrong enough to win sustained favor from the RW voters, except Limbaugh and the cast of FOX. No wonder they are so over the top sleazy. One accurate fact or assessment and it's Tea time.