Pointing out facts is bashing?
They are different presidents. Reagan disabled communism. Bush is trying (along with Blair) to disable Wahhabism.
No President is perfect, and Reagan was not, just as Bush is not. Bush has failed to control spending. He has also neglected border control, as did Reagan, who actually granted a wholesale amnesty.
Bush has appointed much better judges to the appellate and federal courts. The jury is still out on his SC picks, while Reagan batted .300 (one great judge, two clunkers) in his SC appointments.
This forum has turned into a "bash Bush" fest over the last three weeks. He has three years left, yet some of you are already declaring him DOA, forgetting what Iran-Contra did to the Reagan presidency.
Let's just keep things in perspective.
Spin is. And that's precisely what you're doing. You are blatantly trying to make Bush look better by making Reagan look worse, which is a diabolical thing to do.
They are different presidents. Reagan disabled communism. Bush is trying (along with Blair) to disable Wahhabism.
Reagan wanted the source of international communism to be shut down, so he hit the Soviet Union. Bush is still pussyfooting around with the Saudis.
No President is perfect, and Reagan was not, just as Bush is not. Bush has failed to control spending. He has also neglected border control, as did Reagan, who actually granted a wholesale amnesty.
Alleluia, you finally admitted Bush is not perfect. In the most obvious way, mind you. As for the borders, Reagan did not consider a guest worker programme as a solution.
Bush has appointed much better judges to the appellate and federal courts. The jury is still out on his SC picks, while Reagan batted .300 (one great judge, two clunkers) in his SC appointments.
Reagan was partially responsible for the deep bench of jurists which Bush ignored in his SC picks.
This forum has turned into a "bash Bush" fest over the last three weeks. He has three years left, yet some of you are already declaring him DOA, forgetting what Iran-Contra did to the Reagan presidency.
You decided to attack Reagan to bolster Bush. You made a mistake. I have come to expect attacks on Reagan from the left - but it is unbelievably disgusting to see someone who is ostensibly a conservative parroting much the same rhetoric in order to make Bush look good.
Let us remember the greatest thing Reagan bequeathed us besides defeating Communism - he changed the terms of the debate; after him, we had Democrats and Republicans alike saying, although not implementing the mantra, "the era of big government is over". This is still a popular idea.
The most damaging thing Bush has done is allow an appetite for big government to grow among Republicans. This is seen in the Department of Education spending, in allowing government pork to proceed and in Medicare's expansion. And this is not why I signed up for conservatism.
Ivan