The Gipper won the Cold War after John Kerry won the Battle of Vietnam - for the other side.The Gipper restored the morale of the U.S. military after John Kerry severely damaged it.
The Gipper went home this June. Whether his name is Ron P. Reagan or John Kerry or anything else, no one who opposed President Reagan when he was winning the Cold War has anything to say about who honors and follows the political legacy of The Gipper. For sure it isn't John Kerry.
Exactly.
An editorial, which appeared in the LA Times (!) actually said this.
In the Cold War, Kerry Froze
http://www.aei.org/news/filter.,newsID.21035/news_detail.asp
"Many leaders had a hand in Washington's Cold War triumph, but Ronald Reagan's contributions were pivotal, and Kerry opposed every one of them. Reagan's defense buildup disabused Soviet leaders of any hope that they could ultimately come out ahead of the United States. Kerry derided these military expenditures as "bloated" and "without any relevancy to the threat." In particular, Reagan's plan to seek a missile defense system against Soviet ICBMs and NATO's decision to station new missiles in Europe to counteract the new Soviet deployment there rendered futile the Kremlin's vast investment in nuclear supremacy. Instead of these measures, Kerry advocated that we adopt a one-sided "nuclear freeze."
All in all, in his 20 years in the Senate, Kerry ranks as one of the five most dovish or liberal members on foreign policy if you tally up the key votes selected by the liberal advocacy group, Americans for Democratic Action. Is it any wonder that Kerry is seeking to focus voters' attention on his courage as a Navy officer rather than his judgment as a political leader?"