Morford: Enough With Reagan Already (Gipper's legacy? Making GOP nasty, brutish & shortsighted)

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Wednesday, June 16, 2004 | Mark Morford

[presidio9]

Let's get this straight. Ronnie Reagan allowed AIDS to flourish for years after it was discovered and did next to nothing to stem its virulent, lethal tide, and wouldn't even utter the word until the end of his term, when it was too late. Ronnie Reagan denied the existence of the nation's homeless problem that he largely created, and then blamed the problem on not enough people caring to get out there and get a job as he meanwhile slashed civil services and assistance for the poor.

[kallisti]

sounds like someone has a little sand in their va......

[cyborg]

Who cares what this fairy cake says when they're chopping people's heads off in the ME? Anything dealing with a head may well turn him on.

[Mr. Bird]

there should be some sort of posting rule regarding articles with so many blatant inaccuracies. Each paragraph could garner about two hundred refutations.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Let's get this straight. Ronnie Reagan allowed AIDS to flourish for years after it was discovered and did next to nothing to stem its virulent, lethal tide, and wouldn't even utter the word until the end of his term, when it was too late.

After 20+ years of funding and research and currently being almost no closer to a cure or vaccine, what exactly could Reagan have done differently?

Note that these same people virulently hate Bush, who has provided more funding for AIDS medicine in Africa than any other person on the planet.

[ambrose]

I love the "Reagan caused AIDS" lie... yeah, Reagan was in the bathhouses, day and night, spreading the virus.

Is Reagan also responsible for the "bug catchers" who actually WANT to be infected?

[JustPlainJoe]

It's funny to see some people spout off and show the world just HOW stupid they really are. And they don't know when to quit!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Let's get this straight. Ronnie Reagan allowed AIDS to flourish for years after it was discovered and did next to nothing to stem its virulent, lethal tide, and wouldn't even utter the word until the end of his term, when it was too late.

The federal government spent $90,000,000,000 (niney billion dollars) on AIDS research during Ronald Reagan's two terms in office.

Amazing how the press unquestioningly promulgates bald-faced lies when they are liberal bald-faced lies.

[presidio9]

Morford ping

[skeeter]

This daffodil isn't fit to utter Reagan's name.

[headsonpikes]

Enough with Morford already.

I can't have been the first to think that.

[Constitution Day]

Yeah, I read this yesterday when going to to sfgate.com to find his picture for a ping.

He is such a bitter, despicable turd that I don't know where to begin.
All that sp*rm must have addled his freakin' brain.

[cwb]

Heck...not only has the media long abandoned the use fact-checkers, they now use imaginery sources to support their lies.

[CholeraJoe]

Does Missy have PMS?

[bfree]

Hopefully, something more serious.

[Paul Atreides]

Let's get this straight. Ronnie Reagan allowed AIDS to flourish for years after it was discovered and did next to nothing to stem its virulent, lethal tide, and wouldn't even utter the word until the end of his term, when it was too late.

Shut your weenie-hole, you lying fag. If some people kept their flies zipped, it wouldn't have flourished in your bathhouses and such.

[murdoog]

President Ronald Reagan’s economic legacy, dubbed Reaganomics by the media, is that of failure and heartlessness. Reaganomics, an economic failure, as unemployment averaged over seven percent during Mr. Reagan’s term in office; the highest of any full-term presidency since the Great Depression. Reaganomics, a heartless economic policy, as Mr. Reagan opposed the raising of the minimum wage. The only president not to raise the minimum wage, other than of course our current president, George Bush, and even though the cost of living rose in excess of 40% during Reagan’s term of office.

And liberals complain about Bush's syntax.

[Iron Matron]

Ronnie Reagan allowed AIDS to flourish for years after it was discovered and did next to nothing to stem its virulent, lethal tide

It was homosexuals and drug users who did next to nothing to stem its virulent, lethal tide and they are still doing nothing but spreading this disese. I've heard most recently that homosexuals want to give blood without AIDS testing or informing anyone of their homo status, with no regard for who gets the blood, but only concerned about their own reputation.

[Navydog]

Unfortunately......Liberals (Communist in my book) don't have to be truthful to be effective, just convincing.