Couldn't have said it better myself.
Those of you who incessantly tear down President Bush hurt the overall cause of conservatism EVERY SINGLE DAY.
btw, Dane is not 'my buddy'........he was just being unfairly attacked by one who falsely claimed he was issuing 'ad hominem' attacks, and I came to his defense.
Honesty is important to me.
And who introduced Reagan into this particular conversation is irrelevant.......the Reagan is god and Bush is trash mantra from the ubercons (whether you are one or not), has been going on for over four years. If they would stop the dishonesty about Reagan (and the hateful garbage about Bush), then introducing the facts about Reagan into articles like this one might not be necessary.
I'll assume that's addressed at other posters. The truth is, I don't see a lot of people on this site incessantly tearing him down. What I see are narrow areas of disagreement that inevitably are characterized as incessant (with a few exceptions).
The loud mouths on the right that knee jerkingly hate Bush always bring Reagan up. They think that just by posting his picture(ala the left doing the same thing with stalin, castro, or mao) means there should be no debate.
Well I think there should be some debate, especially about Reagan missteps during his administration.
Ronald Reagan would be the first to admit that he had some faults and was not the perfect conservative, and IMO, would be somewhat distressed at his using his image to knee jerkingly attack another conservative, GW Bush.
Of course I can't put words into Ronald Reagan's mouth, but I can paraphrase Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment, Thou shall not speak ill or do ill to a fellow Republican.