REAGAN WINS GREATEST AMERICAN CONTEST

Self ^ | 06/26/2005 | Self

[EUPHORIC]

Reagan wins!!! Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, George Washington, then Ben Franklin in order.

King #3? Bleh. Man was the commie panther type unhappy King was not #1. :)

[EUPHORIC]

Finally this is done with.

[Keith in Iowa]

Must have pained Matt Lauer to have to announce it...

[Pukin Dog]

That is going to piss off some Liberals.

Good.

[Mike Bates]

King #3?

It's called affirmative action.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[Michael Goldsberry]

Finally this is done with.

Amen.

[Mr. Mojo]

MLK beats the Father of our Country?

Outrageous.

[nuconvert]

I'm surprised.

[PackerBoy]

Brett Favre shoulda won it. But I guess Reagan was a good pick.

[Blue Champagne]

And much wailing and gnashing of teeth shall ensue from the left. Woo hoo.

[alisasny]

President Bush was booed by audience as Number 6 and a shout went out for Clinton you could also hear boos as Number 7.

At least the idiots who BOOED Bush kept their mouths shut.

[savedbygrace]

The correct answer is President George Washington.

[sharktrager]

Well, I gave Washington 2 of my votes, and Reagan the third.

Damned If I Know

[gorush]

The libs can find solace in the fact that they won #2 and #3.

[TADSLOS]

EXCELLENT!

[ProudVet77]

Makes tuning into NBC worth it for a change.
Katie will be in mourning I assume. Anymore frowns on that face and those chipmunk cheeks will hit her collarbone.

[FatherFig1o155]

Once Washington came in 4th, I tuned it out.

Without Washington, no one else would even be watching a program like this.

Good, however, to see two Republicans in the top slots...

[EUPHORIC]

"The correct answer is President George Washington"

In YOUR opinion. Guess them falsies are really useful eh?

[SouthTexas]

See, there is still hope for this country!

[Sam Cree]

I think I would go for Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Reagan, Adams, Jefferson, in that order.

[Darkwolf]

President Bush was booed by audience as Number 6

Really? Man. If I were in the audience I wouldn't have booed Clinton, though I would LIKE to, because, well, it's childish. But then, so was this whole contest.

Why do I have a feeling we won't see much coverage of this now that RWR has been picked for the #1 spot?

[1stFreedom]

Blah...

Lincoln is 10x the American Reagan was..

Reagan was just recent..

[Paul Atreides]

Getting Hillary-slapped by a Scientologist and this, all in one week.

[ProudVet77]

Good picks, but Hamilton was the one that created the central bank and was for a strong federal government. He and Jefferson were polar opposites.
But I do have a lot of respect for the man, if not for some of his ideas.

[Paul Atreides]

I wonder if Matt will wear Katie's black dress, tomorrow.

[Black Tooth]

Good for President Reagan.

I will never ever forget the outpouring of pride and respect as hundreds of thousands of Californians stopped on freeways, exited their cars, crowded freeway over passes for many miles paying their respects and saluting as President Reagan made his final trip.

It was actually hard for me to watch.

[ErnBatavia]

Twice...not once but twice...Tom Bradley (mayor of Los Angeles) was very heavily favored to win the governorship of California....the "polls told us so" (the same ones that had Jimmuh and Reagan neck/neck on the eve of their race). Bradley didn't come close once the voters got behind the curtain and cast their actual votes.

When will the pollsters take 'PC' into consideration and stop skewing the results?

Sigh....not in my lifetime.

[BoBToMatoE]

I believe the fact that MLK got number three and the father of this nation is number four says somthing about our society.

No argument with Lincoln being number two - as it should be. IMO, Reagan should have been third.

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Getting Hillary-slapped by a Scientologist and this, all in one week.

Yeah...poor Matt... :)

[Blue Champagne]

LOL.

[skinkinthegrass]

LOL! Wooo Hooo!

[JennysCool]

Finally this is done with.

No kidding, the endless radio commercials for it were getting on my nerves. Remember the choices listed in those radio spots? Washington, MLK, Oprah and Muhammad Ali.

[Skywalk]

It's why I think James Madison should be up there. He was one of the authors of the Federalist Papers, instrumental in developing the Constitution AND the Bill of Rights.

[Darkwolf]

That's about the size of it. That Washington didn't win is startling. Reagan's great, but most of those on the list would be there without him.

That Clinton is so high on the list makes me discount the whole thing. No thinking, honest Democrat can seriously say Clinton deserves to be in a top 100 list of Americans. For the sake of argument--do libs and Dems REALLY place him above FDR, JFK, Woodrow Wilson, Eleanor Roosevelt, even?

[savedbygrace]

What are you talking about?

[nightowl]

I was thrilled to see Reagan win. MY HERO! I thought it would be Washington, Reagan, Lincoln, King & Franklin. I was SHOCKED that Washington came in 4th.

[BoBToMatoE]

Madison definitely in the top ten. Then agian, for liberal socialist, they would hate Madison, or any of the rest of our founding fathers.

[mainepatsfan]

Awesome!!

[jocon307]

I really wanted it to be George Washington too. But to me he'll always be #1. We would never have become a country without him.

[crazyhorse691]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3954954

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Link to one of their threads on this subject(some of the language is not suitable even for a retired sailor). Here is one small excerpt that shows their mental condition..."Much like Fess Parker in "High Noon", Mr. Ronald Reagan stood in the street and fought drugs, communism, and Nancy's astrologer singlehandedly against all odds."

[DrDeb]

So President Bush outpolled Clinton?

[skinkinthegrass]

I wonder if Matt will wear Katie's black dress, tomorrow. ...LOL! :D

[mowkeka]

Ah man, that's beautiful.
God only creates a man like Ronald Reagan once a century. I loved that man.

[Txsleuth]

My thoughts exactly---

Obviously, anyone that voted in this, didn't study the EARLY years of America enough!

[Echo Talon]

Republicans take top 2 spots Reagan #1, Lincoln #2.... :D

[small voice in the wilderness]

I don't think he'll wear her dress, but look for thong lines under his pants.

[Nasher]

The DUmmies are already whining (when do they ever NOT whine) and suspect that they will be doubling up on their mass quantities of meds.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3954927

[KStorm]

I voted for Washington, but it was very close in my own mind between GW and Reagan. I'll bet there'll be some batty liberals over this one! Will have to tune in to Rush tomorrow.

[savedbygrace]

Kids today know more about putting condoms on bananas than they know about our first President. It's no wonder he didn't place first in this name recognition and popularity contest.

[CrimsonStater]

This entire list was too skewed toward recent history. Oprah and Elvis were in the top ten, ahead of FDR!!! Clinton (7) and GW Bush (6) were there too.


Also, what the heck was Michael Jackson doing in the top 100?...that in and of itself makes me shudder

[cripplecreek]

I think people tend to vote for the greatest person in their own lifetime. Frankly they were all great men in their ways but Reagan was truely the greatest in my lifetime.