Posted on 02/26/2010 10:03:23 AM PST by Justaham
On Thursday’s Joy Behar Show on CNN Headline News, host Behar brought up a 1961 Ronald Reagan quote opposing socialized medicine being cited by conservatives, prompting guest Ron Reagan to argue that his father was wrong in opposing Medicare because some of the dire predictions have not happened yet. After Behar complained that "the GOP is always trotting out Ronald Reagan. I mean, can't they come up with something new? This was 50 years ago," she soon added, "He was the original fearmonger, too. I hate to say it."
Ron Reagan agreed: "Yeah, he was, but he was wrong, as we now see. And, you know, Rush Limbaugh can quote this all he wants, but he's just reminding people that my father in this instance was wrong. Maxine [Waters] is right, though, very sincere in his wrongs."
Earlier in the show, Ron Reagan had lamented that single payer socialized medicine is not currently considered an option for health care reform: "The most effective way to control costs and provide better health care for Americans was taken off the table from the get-go months and months ago – and that is universal single payer. That is what the rest of the world enjoys, but we can't have it here."
Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Thursday, February 25, Joy Behar Show on CNN Headline News:
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Nancy’s baby, Ronald’s maybe. Nancy was a good wife, horrible mother.
Ron Reagan, a shame to President Reagan’s name. He is such a d0ch3 bag. He doesn’t even deserve to have his last name be Reagan.
I wonder how his dad will rebuke him if he is alive today. Kind of ironic, Ron was not seen and not heard while his dad was alive. He needs to be not seen and not heard.
“the GOP is always trotting out Ronald Reagan.”
Funny how non one mentions that the Dems like to trot out FDR and JFK while their hard core supporters wear Che shirts while worshiping the teachings Mao and Marx.
"Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized medicine and gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote against it. We had an example of this. Under the Truman administration it was proposed that we have a compulsory health insurance program for all people in the United States, and, of course, the American people unhesitatingly rejected this."
~ Ronald Reagan, 1961
Under Truman, under Clinton, under Obama.... Drives the liberals bonkers.
“...wrong in opposing Medicare because some of the dire predictions have not happened yet...”
Some of his dire predictions have come true concerning Medicare...
1. Fiscally unfit
2. Inefficient layers of bureaucrats
3. Skyrocketing costs
4. Care becomes less and less personal
Ronald Prescott Reagan is no Ronald Wilson Reagan, Jr.
Since children tend to take after the parent of the opposite sex, Ron Jr. might be more like Nancy than the Gipper. Patti will (and I think somewhat already has) soften up toward her dad, but Ron, probably not.
There is a fundamental flaw in their argument. Namely, that one of the reasons Reagan’s “dire predictions” haven’t come to pass (though not from lack of trying on the socialists’ part) is that Reagan made them. Yes, people can influence history.
This creepy kid may be in his 40s, but he is stuck in adolescence. Still holding out hope that he will become an adult one of these days.
Ron Reagan quotes don’t cut it......
The media has SAT on this record for years now. It’s been online and discussed. It should have been used in the 2008 campaign.
Obamacare should not have gotten THIS far along.
Commies have been trotting out Karl Marx for a hundred years, lousy Reds.
My cash payments at my doctor’s visits SUBSIDIZED the services of Medicare patients.
Maureen would destroy Ron Jr. in a debate. As would Mike Reagan.
“...cash payments at my doctor’s visits SUBSIDIZED the services of Medicare...”
...in addition to your taxes that go to the general fund.
You make a great point.
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