The greatest accomplishments of Ronald Reagan.

[kentuck]

He said the famous quote, "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" It was so inspiring and full of oratory. It was almost as great as Bush Jr's bullhorn moment, "They will hear all of us now!" Abraham Lincoln could not hold a light to these great orators.

And the wall did come down. But not until George Bush Sr was President. Still, his followers gave the Gipper all the credit. Reagan single-handedly defeated communism and brought down the Soviet Union.

Also, Reagan said that "government was not the solution, government was the problem." Then he went out and proved it. He ran up the largest deficits in our history at that time and cut taxes on the wealthy, which started our slide into huge deficits. His supply-side theories, written on a napkin, became a bible for economic conservatives.

Then, when Bill Clinton raised taxes and balanced the budget in his eight years in office, everyone knew that it was because Ronald Reagan laid the foundation for it. Reaganomics finally worked - under Clinton.

America was the "shining city on the hill" to the Grade B actor turned President. His followers adored him. America would once again be the most powerful nation on earth. We would use our military wherever it was to our advantage. As he did when he sent in our Marines into Lebanon to quell the violence. 241 Marines died in their barracks from a car bomb, as they lay sleeping. Then Reagan withdrew the remaining forces and lobbed bombs into the Lebanese countryside, just to show them how angry he was.

But he didn't stop there. He was intent on stopping communism from spreading across our borders to the South. His accomplices, Oliver North and Robert McFarland secretly sold arms to the Iranian terrorist government so they could get spending money to spend in El Salvador and Honduras. When it was discovered, he feigned ignorance.

Then, when Bush Jr came into power, after stealing an election in Florida with the help of the US Supreme Court, Reaganomics became prominent once again. Taxes were cut and the military was put on a wood floor and fed corn all winter to fatten it up like a bloated hog. The balanced budget disappeared after the first year of new Reaganomics and we were at war once again. Supply-side was once again the economic religion of the right-wing conservatives.

Like Reagan wanted, Bush Jr and the Republicans removed as many regulations as possible to free up the markets. The market was God. After all, government was the problem.

Then the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed. The big money Reaganites were sweating bullets. Their money was disappearing. They came crawling back to the hated "government" begging to be saved from themselves. And the government saved them.

Those are just a few of the greatest accomplishments of Ronald Reagan. He is now a myth. If he were alive, he would walk on wine and turn it to water. Every Republican wants to be like Ronald Reagan.
Don't dare criticize this great president.

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[Huey P. Long]

1. Yet Obama is an 'admirer'. -eom

[No Elephants]

11. Both Obama and Hillary listed Reagan as one of their" top ten best ever Presidents."

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Jimmy Carter was responsible for the fall of the USSR.

His grain embargo pushed them over the edge. He also boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan... :patriot:

[pnorman]

3. "Jimmy Carter was responsible for the fall of the USSR."

k/r for that!

[Rhiannon12866]

8. Thanks! I've always believed that and I was in the USSR in 1986, during Reagan's second term.

Russians weren't fond of Reagan, they were afraid of him. He made it much more difficult for Gorbachev to institute needed reforms because the Russian hard-liners didn't trust Reagan. However, I did meet fans of Jimmy Carter... :patriot: :hi:

[PatrynXX]

6. clearly

came close to united Israel and the made up people Palestinians. It was the gas prices that did him in though as well as the hostages I believe, which weren't his fault

[Rhiannon12866]

7. Yes, I agree that it was the hostages.

Reagan made sure that Carter wouldn't get credit for that, that they weren't released until after he was actually sworn in... :grr:

As for the Camp David Accords, that was historic. Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Menachem Begin of Israel shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize. :applause:

[NYC_SKP]

10. Those were days I remember well. Watching strings being pulled from behind some curtain...

Without being too CT about it, the whole thing stunk of manipulation.

Fuckers.

:hi:

[No Elephants]

12. Yet, the Nobel Committee omitted Jimmy.

I recently heard Barbara Walters implying that she got Anwar to agree to peace talks with Israel during her interview of him.

[No Elephants]

13. It wasn't the taking of the hostages. It was that he did not rush to war to get them.

The man got them back alive. Yes, it took a year. Probably would have taken less if the Republicans weren't engaging in shenanigans to make sure the Iranians did not release them until Reagan was inaugurated.

The man became a pariah because he let the hostages remain hostages for a year, without taking precipitous action that might have resulted in (a) their deaths; and (b) a war.

[madfloridian]

4. Reagan called students cowardly fascists, Said if it takes a "bloodbath"...

https://twitter.com/#!/madfloridian/status/150104819531661312

Yep, he really said that. He said no more appeasing the protestors. Four days later Kent state murders happened and he said he was not serious when he called for a bloodbath.

I will miss your posts, kentuck. I will probably read some at DU3, but there is no heart there yet.

[lbrtbell]

5. Reagan ruined America - n/t

[kentuck]

9. A truth that must continue to be told...

Our country is basically in the crapper today because of Ronald Reagan and his continued policies by George W. Moron Bush.