Obama: Ronald Reagan Couldn't Have Won GOP Primary Today

[kpete]

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says if President Ronald Reagan was running for president now, he "could not get through a Republican primary today."

Obama said during a question-and-answer session with newspaper editors on Tuesday that Reagan was forced to raise taxes and spending cuts to deal with high deficits during his presidency in the 1980s.

The president says if Reagan were running today, he couldn't emerge from the current Republican primary contest led by Mitt Romney.

Obama is criticizing Republican presidential candidates who were not willing to raise taxes in order to deal with high federal budget deficits.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/03/obama-ronald-reagan-gop-primary_n_1400426.html
Full Transcipt and Video of Obama Speech Today
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/03/1080334/-Full-Transcipt-and-Video-of-Obama-Speech-Today-

[Major Hogwash]

1. More banks closed under Reagan than during the Great Depression.

So much for "trickle down economics"!

[Turbineguy]

2. Which is kind of bizarre

considering his role in creating it.

[GopperStopper2680]

3. This just means that he was shortsighted.

'Reaganomics' was for Reagan what Bush's system was for Bush. It wasn't good for anybody but himself and his political cronies.

[CAPHAVOC]

4. And it makes me wonder.

How JFK would do in a Democratic primary.

[rurallib]

5. Imagine what they would do with war hero Eisenhower today

[bart95]

6. well, he was kind of rough with women

[bart95]

7. reagan learned that money isnt everything

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. He s correct

The real Reagan coud not, now the myth...