Posted on 12/06/2011 12:16:40 AM PST by Mozilla
Key word there, "Was"
Reagan later wrote: "Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say 'But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time."
My grandmother was a young adult in 1929 and died thinking FDR was a hero who helped people in the great depression.
Newts comments on FDR and WWII wouldnt be so bad if he had only pointed out all the bad things Roosevelt did too.
Newt is definitely a progressive and his record the last 15 years is much more relevent than what he voted for in the 1990s when a small conservative GA house district voters were holding his feet to the fire. He may be less liberal than Romney but that’s not saying much.
Point taken, but Reagan is criticizing the New Deal here more than FDR, and explaining how it was justified. A few years back some politicians wanted to replace FDR on the dime with Reagan. Nancy put an end to it by saying it’s not what Ronnie would have wanted to replace FDR.
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