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To: meandog

I note your tagline compares President Bush unfavorably to President Reagan, whom I also admired and supported. Please note that President Reagan lost nine Senate seats in 1986 and the Senate majority to the Democrats; he never had a majority in the House. That wasn't all RR's fault, but as I recall he didn't campaign much at all in 1986; not nearly as much as GWB this year, and RR wasn't fighting a hot war at the time. My purpose is not to demean RR at all, but to suggest that we ought to appreciate what leadership we have now a lot more than some do.


83 posted on 11/08/2006 10:44:50 AM PST by n-tres-ted (Remember November!)
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To: n-tres-ted
I note your tagline compares President Bush unfavorably to President Reagan, whom I also admired and supported. Please note that President Reagan lost nine Senate seats in 1986 and the Senate majority to the Democrats; he never had a majority in the House. That wasn't all RR's fault, but as I recall he didn't campaign much at all in 1986; not nearly as much as GWB this year, and RR wasn't fighting a hot war at the time. My purpose is not to demean RR at all, but to suggest that we ought to appreciate what leadership we have now a lot more than some do.

IMHO, it proves Reagan could have governed effectively with opposition because he was a leader and could go directly to the people. Bush hasn't ever figured that out. Reagan also kicked puny dictators aside like so much confetti--just ask Qadaffi, Ortega, or dig up the old Ayatollah Rohollah Khomeini. Further more, Reagan would have figured out someway to have Sadaam fighting the Taliban, while that little dog-eating Kim Jung Il and the Iranian jew-hating pig were destroying each other's nuke plants while he was selling all of them weapons and using the money from the sales to oust Castro and Chavez!

124 posted on 11/08/2006 10:53:36 AM PST by meandog (While Bush will never fill them, Clinton isn't fit to even lick the soles of Reagan's shoes!)
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