[OXENinFLA]

The lot of the no-account eastcoast libsnob longhaired artsyfartsy slagpunk francophile comsymp is not a happy one. Not this week.

And that's just the intro.........

[Izzy Dunne]

What's strange to me about all this venom is that RR has been out of public life since 1989. He's not been hawking books, making speeches, or otherwise pushing his opinions out there. He's been SILENT!

And yet, 15 years later, he still draws out this venom.

A giant casts a long shadow.

[angkor]

Wish I had a transcript of Clintonista Donna Brazille's live C-Span comments on Saturday (hours before Reagan passed away).

First she offered the (amazing) tribute that the Ronald Reagan she'd campaigned against in 1980 and 1984 turned out in her 1986 meeting with him to be a very nice guy who made her feel warm and welcome. IIRC there was even a mention of praying for him.

Then she slipped into a tirade that Reagan had also made it "a crime to be poor" and that he didn't "give" enough. Without directly saying it, Brazille made it clear that her real hatred of Reagan was that he stopped the welfare wagon of the previous decades, and "I hope those policies go to the grave with him."

One wonders how much her hatred of Ronald Reagan inspired Brazille to become more than she might otherwise have been. The irony.

[don-o]

A generation has risen almost to maturity that cannot remember that only yesterday the triumph of free men and women over the blight of communist tyranny was no sure thing.

When the Russians put the first Sputnik into orbit, my daddy said, "The Russians are going to whip us."

In the following years looked like he was right, mutually assured destruction and whatnot.

[wildwood]

having read the anti-reagan virulent pieces to which pruden refers, i must say that their true selves are being revealed quite plainly, as if avery bright light has been turned on....full of hate, dripping with venom and absolutely malignant.

how sad and pathetic they are.

[wayoverontheright]

Robert Reich (the little worm) was on Fox yesterday trying to spin Reagan's legacy by saying the deficits were responsible for the economic problems which followed, and that Paul Volcker's monetary policy was responsible for the boom, even calling it the "Volcker (sp) boom". It's just not believable, the government spending instituted under Johnson and Carter were responsible for these deficits.

ABC news said yesterday in another attempt at spin that Reagan "brought down the vaunted Soviet Union but his middle eastern record was spotty as he befriended the Afghan rebels when they were fighting the Russians." How ludicrous is that? Reagan allowed congress, through a Texas democrat named Charlie Wilson to fund half of that momentous victory (the Saudis contributed the other half), and that defeat is as much responsible for bringing down the Soviets as SDI, the rebirth of capitalism which Reagan engineered, or anything else.

[mombonn]

NEVER again will I stoop to listen or read on word chrisopher hitchens has to say.

He is nothing but a bashed, befuddled, boozed up, buzzed, canned, crocked, drinking, drunken, flushed, flying, fuddled, gassed, glazed, groggy, hammered, high, hosed, in orbit, inebriated, jolly, jugged, juiced, laced, liquored up, lit, lush, merry, muddled, oiled, on a bun, overcome, pie-eyed, plastered, plowed, potted, seeing double, sloshed, soaked, sotted, soused, stewed, stoned, tanked, tight, tipsy, totaled, wasted, zonked, alcoholic, boozehound, boozer, carouser, dipsomaniac, drinker, drunkard, guzzler, inebriate, lush, soak, sot, souse, sponge, wino.

[wayoverontheright]

It's truly hilarious to watch the Left trying to spin his legacy. The problem for them is his record of achievement is now indisputable history, their attempts to bash Bush involve predictions, all proving to be wrong right before their eyes, but they can't use the same tactics on Reagan because the facts are all there, and they are indisputable and not subject to prognostication.

[FreedomPoster]

Ping; if nothing else, for the first sentence alone, but the piece does a great job of summarizing Leftie angst concerning Ronaldus Maximus. I say again, the greatest President of the 20th Century, and almost certainly the greatest in my lifetime (I can't imagine a greater one happening).

[Quix]

THANKS--GREAT POST.

MUCH APPRECIATED.

[PersonalLiberties]

So truly sad.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Great post!

[Arrowhead1952]

The 40th president is rightly remembered in tributes and praise for rebuilding both the economy and the nation's defenses, and doing both simultaneously. But before he could cut taxes, free the market or order a single bullet, bayonet or Pershing missile, he had to change calcified attitudes.

I feel the left will one day realize that the conservative idea is better for this country. That will be a great day in history, but I'm not holding my breath. </ sarcasm>

They are too stupid to realize the fact that individuals know how to spend their money better than large government.

[meandog]

Ted Rall, a syndicated cartoonist who only a month ago derided Pat Tillman as a "sap" and an "idiot" for giving up a pro football career and going to Afghanistan as a soldier, where he was killed, gloated over the Gipper's death: "I'm sure he's turning crispy brown right about now."

(With apology to Hank Williams Jr.)...I'd like to shoot some Beechnut in this dude's eyes and ...

[ladtx]

When Ronald Reagan came to office in 1981, the Soviet Union looked no worse than even money to win the Cold War.

Ronald Reagan's decision to defeat the USSR raised howls from the left. They all thought he was out of his mind. I was in the Army, statione with the 11th ACR in the Fulda Gap in the early eighties and would have been astounded to know that within a decade that threat would crumble and disappear. At the time we knew for sure that we were the only thing standing between the Russian Bear and the interior of Western Europe and it was indeed a sobering experience. Reagan gave us the backbone to stand in that gap knowing we had a man in the Whitehouse who would back us to the hilt, he is sorely missed.

Rest in peace Mr. President.

SCOUTS OUT!

[The Raven]

Reagan would have ignored them. Why don't we do the same?

[JudgemAll]

A "gay activist" (and aspiring theologian) in Florida writes that Mr. Reagan will "spend eternity in hell" because he was "responsible for 500,000 American AIDS deaths and 10 million worldwide," which if true would have made the Gipper the studliest and busiest man in the bathhouse. (Ten million tricks is a lot of tricks, even for a Gipper.)

Unfreaking believable.... and from an aspiring theologian? This is the psycho liberal mind at work. They spread the disease, they blame the leader and directly threaten the tax payer and what not, for not doing enough to clean their own messes.

This summarizes the heart of the liberal. What a messy lying big lie bunch.

[pabianice]

I was at a birthday party Sunday for my 95-year-old aunt. An ultra-liberal cousin half-playfully swatted at my NRA cap. I said, "That's for Reagan." She turned red.

[JudgemAll]

I had no real opinion of Reagan myself, but the liberals have persuaded me that the guy was more than decent indeed.

[Gritty]

Excellent article! Liberals are just our nasty, national trailing trash.