You said this about the Republican Party Leadership and their relationship with Ronald Reagan,
“did everything they could to keep him from being elected, and proceded to slander him constantly during his eight year term, then proceded to undermine everything he accomplished as soon as he was out of office?”
While this statement was somewhat true in 1976 and in the very, very early stages of 1980, you are WAY off base for what takes place from August of 1980 and forward.
I don’t have time to dissect this right now and demonstrate how wrong your post is, but I’ll be back later tonight to do so when I have time.
I appreciate the response Mark but think back yourself.
Reagan was called a warmonger for his actions at Rekiavic, his missile deployment in Europe and for many of his brilliant comments. He was called all sorts of names by folks for his ‘Bring down this wall’ comment.
At Rekiavic he was specifically spanked by know-it-all liberal republican leaders for ‘missing a once in a lifetime opportunity’. He had to fight off his own party leadership, to put the Pershing II (I belive it was Pershing II) nukes in Europe.
He was fought tooth and nail against undermining that communist germ in Nicaragua, that has come to power again.
Are we talking about democrats? No. The republican leadership thought he was a loose cannon. They thought he was senile. They thought he didn’t have a clue a majority of the time.
Reagan was vindicated when the wall came down. He was also vindicated when his own diary revealed that he was lucid and still driving policy and day to day operations up until the end of his presidency.
A considerable number of leading republicans did not buy into this while he was in office.