Posted on 06/08/2004 2:03:13 PM PDT by kattracks
Frustrated liberals, angry at having to spend an entire week watching the nation pay tribute to the man they derided alternately as "an amiable dunce" and a heartless autocrat, are now claiming that Bill Clinton was actually a more popular president than Ronald Reagan.
"In truth, Ronald Reagan was never as popular as he is being presented to be with Americans," writes Slate Magazine's Eric Alterman.
"As president, [he] was never even as popular as Bill Clinton during the period of Clinton’s impeachment," argues the disgruntled Democrat.
For evidence, Alterman cites a Gallup poll that tracks approval ratings for Clinton, Reagan, Carter and both Bushes to back his claims. The same poll is touted prominently on Democrats.com, a web site run by former Clinton White House staffers and DNC veterans.
Unfortunately for Alterman and the rest of the Reagan-haters, some of us still remember what the voters said when they actually got a chance to make their will known at the polls.
Clinton, for instance, never won more than 49 percent of the vote, managing that feat in 1996. And he probably never would have been president at all without Ross Perot acting as a Republican spoiler in 1992, when Clinton squeaked in with just 43 percent of the vote.
Reagan, on the other hand, trounced his two Democratic opponents in 44 and 49 state landslides.
In fact, no president in U.S. history has ever gotten more votes than Reagan did in 1984, despite the fact that the nation's population has grown by more than 30 million in the last twenty years.
Myself, I wouldn't walk across the street to pee on him if he was on fire.
The toon was dangerous...but his wife and people like Gore are even more so if they ever get their hands on power.
Ronald Reagan was the anti-thesis of this. Very similar to George Washington in this respect. They used their influence for good...knew that they served the people and were not only not interested in the vice versa, they eskewed it.
Reagan's tombstone will immortalize the words "tear down this wall Mr. Gorbachev."
Mr. Clinton's tombstone could read:
"William Jefferson Clinton is dead-- but that depends on what the defintion of "is" is.
I will never understand the liberal mind. They say they are for the common man, but their leaders have such disdain for the rank and file.
What in the world are these people thinking?
What planning does it take to get a keg of beer and some babes?
Perfect!
What planning does it take to get a keg of beer and some babes?
Perfect!
That is the basic issue...a large segment of our population has fallen to the lure of the dole and government handouts...voting for themselves the largess of the working citizerns.
Our challenge is not only to stop losing ground to this insidious attack and ideology...but to take back ground. We do that through education of founding principles, through exemplary living, through helping others, and through taking principled stands on the hard issues and not giving ground or parlaying on those fundamental issues.
Reagan showed us all how to do that.
Clinton never got a majority of the "popular" vote (for those to whom it's important), but did get 49.23% of that vote in 1996, not 46%.
dvwjr
When a good person passes, lights of truth fall from the sky as his soul ascends. The unrepentant sinners quiver like mice caught under a bright light. Their emotions rule them.
They should comission a $3.00 bill in his honor.
Yeah, he only won the Presidency by a landslide while Clinton didn't even get 50% of the vote. Must be the new math.
$3.00 bill would be even better.
Of course Ronald Reagan was never popular with the leftists and commie sympathizers they associated with, but I wonder how many people would stand for 10 hrs. to view Clinton's casket. On second thought, maybe we would just to make sure...
Years ago, the unpopular conservative columnist and commentator Robert D.S. Novak said that he would never again appear on an interview program with Eric Alterman. Novak said that life is "too short" to put up with Alterman's ravings.
They say they are for the common man, but their leaders have such disdain for the rank and file.
The Democrats are safe so long as the "rank and file" doesn't figure out that it is being used.
Small people usually have the biggest whine...
A. What Clinton did with the Chinese
Is this a reference to Bill's friends at Loral giving the Chinese help targeting their missiles?
Thanks for the head's up!
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