The Gipper was going senile and always saying things like that, right?
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Nancy had read his horoscope and senility was not in the stars yet.
For the rest of us, it was just more of the BS flying around from the Democrats and their media. And to some of us, Reagan was not a hero, but rather the bad man who destroyed a good portion of the commercial fishing industry, causing many of us to suffer loss of family, income and life, to satisfy the Democrats and wacko environmentals.
The Reagan administration was beset throughout by severe pressure from the environmental movement, amplified by the news media and federal court action. The result was some hard to defend decisions that contradicted Reagan’s general laissez faire philosophy and policies.