Both of your posts give good insight. Thanks.
You are certainly welcome but yet again thoughts pop into my head. I don't want to make a nuisance of myself but these past two nights I've been wracking my brain to understand why I didn't like Reagan beyond my university snobbism, my committment to the feminazi movement and the liberal ideology I found so gosh darn cool. I ponder why do those traits I so admire in the current President eluded me with Ronald Reagan. So I listen to Rush today and more thoughts come to my head.
I do recall greatly disliking Jimmy Carter, give me credit for this. Though at the time I never had a clue that Jimmy Carter's failure was his liberalism run amok. But hoo boy, I remember the gas lines, the exorbitant interest rates, those idiots taking our hostages. At the time I was a single woman, early thirties, happening, pretty, career gal, lots of boyfriends and an ex-husband or two. I had friends desperately trying to buy a house with 16% interest rates. The gas lines like to kill me. And the horror of having foreigners capture our citizens and keep them for a year demoralized me. Yeah, I was a bit aware and I do distinctly recall disliking Jimmy Carter. In retrospect and with my newfound wisdom I know that Carter's presidency is what happens when liberals have all the power.
In fact I might have voted for Reagan though I admit I do not recall. I've voted in every election except the Dole election so I must have voted for someone and I can't imagine I voted for Jimmy Carter, the jerk. At least my young beautiful and happening self had an inkling of a clue.
Some more thoughts about Reagan come to me as I remember my disdain of his "trickle down" economics. My thought was the this "emperor" was allowing us peons to eat cake. OR maybe it was the liberal media making me think like this. There was also the ridicule of the Star Wars plan. Again, I remember thinking that was an idiotic waste of money. I simply had no idea that it was the arms race that was causing the collapse of the Soviet Union. The liberal pundits spoke to me and I bought into it.
I also recall thinking that Ronald Reagan at that time was suffering from the beginnings of his Alzenheimers only at that time it was depicted, in a snickering manner by the liberal pundits and I snickered right along, as "forgetfulness". I distinctly remember being somewhat comforted by the "fact", as I perceived it, that the Reagan presidency was really a committee affair. I don't know where I got this notion but it's how I thought. And I certainly never gave the man any credit for ANYTHING. Although plainly Iran gave up those hostages on his inauguration day, the economy did bounce right back, and the Soviet Union did collapse under his watch. In fact, I worked for an accounting firm at the time and I recall the eighties as being a frenzied money making period. Reagan did this with his tax cuts and economic policies but that thought never entered my head.
Anyway, I wish I had given him the credit that he deserved. Instead I was cool, hip, educated and disdainful that a former actor for God's sake, thought he could be a great President.
Turns out that he was. Hats off to you Ronnie, and God Bless America.