GOP Has Got to Get Off the Dime

Los Angeles Times ^ | 12-9-2003 | Robert Scheer

[boris]

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-scheer9dec09,1,3119597.column?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

GOP Has Got to Get Off the Dime
Robert Scheer

You've got to love Nancy Reagan for the steadfast way she guards her husband's legacy against opportunistic political poachers. The most recent example being her quick rejection of the boneheaded partisan move by nearly 90 congressional Republicans who signed on to a bill to have Reagan replace Franklin Delano Roosevelt's profile on the dime. "I do not support this proposal, and I'm certain Ronnie would not," was her no-nonsense reply.

Of course her husband would agree. His father had a job in Roosevelt's New Deal that saved their family and millions of others from starvation during the Great Depression. That's why Ronald Reagan voted for Roosevelt and became an active Democrat. Even after his conservative transformation, Reagan often insisted that he never left the party of Roosevelt but rather the Democratic Party changed over the years and left him.

[boris]

Editor
Los Angeles Times

Sir:

Robert Scheer is right. Reagan does not merit being memorialized on the dime. After all, all Reagan did was end the Cold War, call a halt to the arms race, end the danger of nuclear armageddon, and defeat the Soviet Union--the true 'Empire of Evil'. The Berlin Wall came down as part of Reagan's legacy, too--but let that be.

Much better to have an image of a socialist whose "New Deal" ruined our economy and began the gutting of the Constitution. We are now a Social-Democratic Fascist state, in no small measure due to Roosevelt's efforts.

I say: leave the dime alone and put Reagan on Mt. Rushmore--in place of Mr. Roosevelt's relative. While we're at it, let's put Clinton's puss on a new three-dollar bill.

--Boris

[facedown]

Ah, more drivel from Pinko Bobby.

[2banana]

saved their family and millions of others from starvation during the Great Depression

What a lie - FDR probably added more to the misery of the Great Depression than any other person...

[trebb]

Yes - FDR started the whole entitlement thing that is ruining our country.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Funny, Dad always said while I was growing up at the end of the depression, "Germany had Hitler, we had Roosevelt". I always wondered what he meant by that.

[Nonstatist]

I'd put Reagan on the "silver" dollar coin. Dimes are relatively worthless these days, anyway.