[quidnunc]

As much as I admire Reagan, he is not the greatest American.

#1 has to be George Washington, followed closely by Abraham Lincoln.

[EUPHORIC]

"As much as I admire Reagan, he is not the greatest American."

ANYONE who pi$$es the liberals off as much as Reagan has my vote in this - regardless of my personal opinions. :)

[SuziQ]

#1 has to be George Washington

As much as I liked Reagan, I have to agree. If it were not for George Washington, and the men who led the fight to free us from British Rule, Reagan wouldn't have had a country for which to be President.

[newzjunkey]

Just curious... Why Lincoln? What he did was probably illegal. He determined that once a state enters the union it is not free to leave. Freeing the slaves was something of an excuse used but not the moral justification for the war between the states. If he hadn't been assassinated he might be looked at with less fondness.

Washington has to be #1 because he was a good General and was rewarded for his efforts by being the first CIC? That hardly rates considering other men--not him--defined our nation by actually crafting the founding documents.

I voted for Reagan because America was in crisis of morale, evaporated trust in its leadership, crisis in economics and faced an enemy worse than the Islamo fascists we battle today. He got Americans back on their feet and feeling the spirit of Americanism once again. He survived an assassin's bullet. Got the economy moving. Rightly defied communism with the clarity of purpose that ensured its destruction rather than continued co-existence. He was America.