Posted on 10/30/2004 2:23:42 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The constant whining about how divided the country is and how divisive the political campaigns are this year is getting tiresome.
To listen to the Democrats, you would think that George W. Bush is the first Republican candidate they've ever disliked and that this is the first time this nation has faced a close election.
Does anyone remember 1984? Do you recall how much the Democrats hated Ronald Reagan?
...Robert Scheer, a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times, admits to liking Reagan personally when he covered him before and during Reagan's governorship of California. However, at the time of Reagan's death, Scheer wrote in a column on his legacy, "Yet, looking back at his record, I am appalled that I warmed to the man as much as I did."
According to Scheer, "It also became increasingly clear that although the man wasn't unintelligent, his ability to mingle truth with fantasy was frightening. Reagan allowed AIDS to spread for the same reason he pointedly savaged programs to help the poor: He was genuinely convinced that government programs exacerbated problems -- unless they catered to the needs of the businessmen he had come to revere."
It infuriated the Left that Reagan was an unabashed champion of a strong American military, limited government and a free economy. Such comments as, "Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose," and, "Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other" greatly annoyed his critics.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Those who want to defent the really vile hatred of the left should go to this thread for a few minutes:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1262585/posts
Ban the Christians, kill the Bushites!
townhall.com ^ | August 24, 2004 | Mike S. Adams
Posted on 10/30/2004 7:02:28 AM PDT by wgeorge2001
Ban the Christians, kill the Bushites! Mike S. Adams (back to web version) | Send
August 24, 2004.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1262585/posts
1992 is when that happened for me. The very sight of a Clinton face automaticlly fills me with disgust and anything that presented this evil couple in a good light was from then on no longer bought or watched by me.
In 1992 I cancelled my subscription to the San Francisco Gay Rhonicle because of what you noted.
I cancelled my WSJ subscription because of the vile Al Hunt editorials in it.
I refuse to pay to have some liberal mediot insult me or my political party.
"Reagan allowed AIDS to spread"
Ahh, I get it: Reagan was MAKING the Homosexual Community participate in promiscuous sex via Halliburton's mind control invention!!
btt
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