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Don't Be Fooled: Liberals Despised Reagan and Were Not Civil About It
Rushlimbaugh.com ^ | 1/18/11 | Rush Linbaugh

Posted on 01/18/2011 4:03:53 PM PST by Nachum

RUSH: RUSH: The one-hundredth year anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth is coming up. Yeah, it is. And the Drive-Bys and the Democrats, you'll see it popping up, "Oh, what a wonderful time the eighties was. Tip O'Neill and Ronaldus Magnus, yeah, they mighta gone at it tooth and nail in the daytime, but then they went out and had a beer after work." That never happened. Reagan never left the White House for a beer. The 1980s were just as vitriolic as they are today.

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KEYWORDS: despised; fooled; liberals; reagan

1 posted on 01/18/2011 4:03:55 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum
The 1980s were just as vitriolic as they are today

I remember constant crowds assembled in DC angrily protesting all of Reagan's policies, particularly his defense policies.

There were constant screams of "Armaggedon" and hate-filled propoganda about how Reagan was trying to get us all killed.

Now, we hear how gentle and peaceful those days were. Yeah...right.

2 posted on 01/18/2011 4:07:45 PM PST by what's up
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To: what's up

I don’t think you can find a time when politics in America wasn’t vitriolic.


3 posted on 01/18/2011 4:09:53 PM PST by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: Nachum

All of this will help them warm up to President Palin.


4 posted on 01/18/2011 4:14:31 PM PST by Gator113 (I'm voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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To: Nachum

Liberals shot both the first and last republican president.


5 posted on 01/18/2011 4:15:13 PM PST by NoLibZone (Five time DNC backed candidate Fred Phelps: "God sent the shooter".)
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To: what's up
I remember the graffiti at college referring to the President as “Ronnie Raygun.” Real juvenile stuff.
6 posted on 01/18/2011 4:22:17 PM PST by Tallguy (Received a fine from the NFL for a helmet-to-helmet hit.)
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To: Nachum

Governor Reagan was despised by the commies on the California college campi. He did not care. God love him!


7 posted on 01/18/2011 4:25:54 PM PST by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: Nachum

Christopher Hitchens

In the 1980s, he referred to Reagan as a “criminal” and “militarist fascist” who was bent on overthrowing democracy at home and suppressing “workers” revolutions abroad.

Upon Reagan’s death, Mr. Hitchens referred to him as a “cruel and stupid lizard.”


8 posted on 01/18/2011 4:25:58 PM PST by NoLibZone (Five time DNC backed candidate Fred Phelps: "God sent the shooter".)
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To: ops33

Conservatives and Liberals are two competing evolutionary psychologies. Go back to before Homo sapiens was Homo sapiens, and these two psychologies would have been battling it out, often far more violently than they are now.

What we need to realize is that Liberals oppose vitriol today for a reason. They are beginning to be seen as the selfish incompetents they are, and they are afraid of the public turning on them. If this was the 60’s and they thought vitriol was to their advantage, they’d be bombing police stations as we speak.

We need more vitriol, not less. It’s the only way to cow the Liberal peacefully.


9 posted on 01/18/2011 4:29:33 PM PST by AnonymousConservative (Click my Nick, and see my profile page for the evolutionary origin of Liberalism)
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To: what's up

TIME magazines latest political coverage.

Good Heavens An astrologer dictating the Presidents schedule


10 posted on 01/18/2011 4:33:08 PM PST by NoLibZone (Five time DNC backed candidate Fred Phelps: "God sent the shooter".)
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To: Nachum

The GOP establishment didn’t like Reagan either, but they had to be quiet about it.


11 posted on 01/18/2011 4:35:27 PM PST by Moonman62 (Half of all Americans are above average. Politicians come from the other half.)
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To: Nachum

No one recalls the lefts lie that He met with the Taliban and said they were “These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s founding fathers ?


12 posted on 01/18/2011 4:37:14 PM PST by NoLibZone (Five time DNC backed candidate Fred Phelps: "God sent the shooter".)
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To: NoLibZone
Liberals shot both the first and last republican president.

I wasn't aware that President George H. W. Bush and President George W. Bush were not Republicans.

Not conservatives, true, at least on fiscal policy, but surely both men are honorable gentlemen, and, loyal Republicans.

13 posted on 01/18/2011 4:44:09 PM PST by AnalogReigns
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