[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

This venomous little toad's e-mail address is: gparrish@seattleweekly.com. FYI.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Anyone using the cliche "speaking truth to power" is immediately dismissed from my notice.

And quoting a Cricif*cks song - LOL! One of the worst of the identikit hardcore punk bands. Who could tell all that crap apart? Gimme the Ramones or Sham 69 any day.

[Sloth]

A least he isn't putting on a false show of respect for Reagan, like Kerry & his ilk.

[moonhawk]

My email:

Read your column online.

Couldn't help but wonder how exactly RR could have prevented "tens of thousands" of AIDS deaths.

No one has cured it yet, twenty-some years on, despite having spent an order of magnitude more on AIDS research than on Cancer.

The only ones who could have prevented the spread of AIDS were the ones doing the spreading.

A "breeder" who was my next door neighbor was infected in the eighties as the result of a blood transfusion for routine surgery, and as a result was one of the first AIDS fatalities in the country.

I wonder if she would blame RR, or the Sodomists who couldn't seem to control their unrestrained buggery, and who are resposible for her infection.

If RR had done or said the only things that could have made any difference at all for these unfortunate "victims" of their own lack of self-control (a crowbar prying you out of each others rectums comes to mind) the shrieks of "Keep out of our bedrooms (bath houses?)" would have shattered glass on the other side of the planet.

Have a nice day...

[L.N. Smithee]

The presidency of Reagan himself was so bad, on so many levels, that as young adults a sizable number of us could only sputter in impotent rage...

And now that you're an old adult, Geov (what kind of name is that?), nothing has changed, as is evidenced by this ignorant rant.

[SaveTheChief]

...young adults a sizable number of us could only sputter in impotent rage

Well, he did get something right

[Tax Government]

Great Communicator, my ass. Tens of thousands of us died of AIDS on his watch...

Rearrange his sentences to view the secret message: "My ass, Great Communicator of AIDS."

[OESY]

Tens of thousands of us died of AIDS on his watch, and he never even once mentioned the word.

There is a kernel of truth here. Reagan might have done more by using the bully pulpit to get states to close gay bath houses, banish the diseased and sexually promiscuous to the old sanitariums away from society as they did with those who contracted tuberculosis, and embark on intensive reeducation, testing and notification programs for gays, not that gays would have liked any of this. I can hear the screams now.

In Reagan's defense, he would have been blocked in the courts on civil rights grounds, and there were no other leaders around who had courage to take the aggressive steps necessary to protect those who indiscriminately engaged in unprotected sex, and thus save millions of lives worldwide.

[AmishDude]

Peggy Noonan called it first.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

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