I voted for Reagan....I liked Reagan...but the man had FAULTS...the man raised taxes, he ran from Lebanon..he signed an amnesty bill for illegals...
The man was NOT PERFECT...and I have to tell you that when I was watching the speeches at CPAC this week..I CRINGED everytime EACH candidate and even Newt Gingrich had to extole Reagan..and try to associate himself with him.
These men that want to link themselve to Reagan will..in the next breath deride the spending lately..but not applaud the tax cuts...will swear about the illegals...without pointing out the FIRST amnesty...
Will gnash their teeth at letting our enemy get so strong before we fought back...without mentioning pulling our troops from Lebanon even though we KNEW exactly where the leader of the Hezbollah was hiding...
All I am saying is...REAGAN would be bashed if he was running now..and promised the things that happened under his watch.
As far as getting rid of Communism and tearing down the wall??? I think that Putin would disagree that there is no wall.
Sleuth..
You and I are of the same mind. Don't think you're a voice crying out in the wilderness.
Hope you are well!
No, Reagan was not perfect. He wasn't close to perfect, but I do remember what it was like before Reagan.
Before Reagan, the only place we seemed to beat the Soviets was an Olympic hockey match.
Before Reagan, the "misery index" was well above 20.
Before Reagan, the country was in a "malaise."
Before Reagan, our foreign policy looked like it was developed by frightened rabbits; well, Carter's cabinet wasn't quite as brave as frightened rabbits.
Before Reagan, pessimism was the rule.
Before Reagan, we were rushing headlong into some kind of gleeful surrender to socialism. Yeah, it's not great now, but remember what it was like?
Before Reagan, the economy tanked and American cars looked like shoeboxes, but not as aerodynamic.
Before Reagan, was Jimmy Carter.
Finally, one can't look at events in a vacuum. What would have happened if we had become entangled in Lebanon? Right. We just don't know, do we? Would we have still stopped the Evil Empire. I still give Ronald Reagan the credit he deserves for that one.
As for the wall, ask some Poles, Latvians, Lithianians and Estonians if Reagan made a difference.
>>>>I voted for Reagan....I liked Reagan...
From your posts, you'll understand why I don't believe you.
>>>>>All I am saying is...REAGAN would be bashed if he was running now..
You're doing a good job bashing Reagan and he isn't running. I knew I had you pegged right. Employing 20/20 hindsight to take cheap pot shots at a great POTUS, and in the process attempt to revise history are the acts of a scoundrel. Reagan was not perfect, no human being is. Just for the record, Reagan never raised federal income taxes and he didn't run from Lebanon either.
>>>>As far as getting rid of Communism and tearing down the wall??? I think that Putin would disagree that there is no wall.
This is a convoluted paragraph. Care to decipher its meaning for us.
The bottom line is this. Reagan came closer to Free Republic`s bedrock conservative policies then Giuliani, Romney, McCain and Gingrich. But this debate isn't really about Reagan. Its about whether Republicans will choose a moderate, a centrist or a liberal to be the party standard bearer in 2008. Or will the GOP come to its senses and go for a conservative candidate that FReepers can unite behind and be proud to support.