https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG5WAFzwlIA
By the way, Nancy Reagan was Supercool in her own right.
An active link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG5WAFzwlIA
What a great video, thanks. Not only fun but seeing again so many of my favorites enjoying the roast. :)
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Sinatra was, like Reagan, a Dem much of his life. However, he supported RR, and soon gravitated toward him and the GOP. I don’t know if he ever changed his registration.
I think Obama took a cue from Reagan. He chose Bonzo Biden as a running mate.
I’m sure there were purist future FReepers in 1979 who would have questioned Reagan keeping such dubious company.
Thanks for the link to Memory Lane.
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l loved it!
tHanks for posting!
In 1980 I was certainly not as politically aware as I am now. I think the reason for RR’s win over Carter is much simpler. Carter had become associated with a pretty fetid decline in everything America. The gas crisis was big deal, the Iranian situation was very uncomfortable; and those things happened one after another right after the 1776 celebration which was of course a big deal....but right after that adrenaline shot came event after event that Carter got tattooed with. I was a Dem at the time, having been brought up in an East coast lib household. Even to me, Carter looked like such a fool and whatever the heck he was doing was not benefiting America, nor Americans.
The stark contrast with today is how all the miserable crap going on in the world is somehow never, ever the fault of 0bama. This, I find astounding. “He got us out of the worst financial crisis since the GD”. Yeah, right. “He got Bin Laden”.
“One of the greatest mistakes conservatives make in analyzing the 1980 election, is to exaggerate the weakness of Jimmy Carter in the 1980 election. I am not a Carter-hater, and I think Carter was a better President and stronger leader than several American Presidents, including Obama, Clinton, James Buchanan, etc.”
Carter was elected in 1976 because no one knew who he was or anything about him. By 1980 we knew ALL about him. And I would have voted for a small brown spot of liquid on the floor over that Anti-American liberal idiot.
A lot of the messes we face today started with that sorry excuse for a President. While he may not have been quite as incompetent as “the bent one” or “zero”, he still deserves a special place in the toilet list of American Presidents.
We were very fortunate to have a conservative candidate who also happened to be so telegenic and "supercool".
Here's hoping Cruz becomes a bit more lovable or Trump stays conservative.
In 1980, I attended a birthday rally for Reagan at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles that featured several celebrities including Dean Martin, Wayne Newton and Frank Sinatra, who led the crowd in singing, “Happy Birthday.”.
Why is Reagan never seen with anyone else? Odd editing
I have to admire your respect for Ronald Reagan. However,
your description of him as “supercool” applies only in
the sense that everything I like is automatically
supercool. It may be a generational way of looking at
things. Errol Flynn was quite the Hollywood party boy
A lister. He and Reagan acted together and were friends
but Flynn described Reagan as a square. Reagan was
governor when I went to a California state College and
even those of us who supported him didn’t think of him
as anything close to supercool. His critics referred to
him as a ‘B movie’ actor. I loved the fact that while
Reagan closed the public colleges for a few days during a
period of upheaval he allowed my school, Cal Poly, to
stay open.
The real boost to Reagan in the presidential election of
‘80 was the fact that he was talking up the future while
Carter was telling us that things were in the shitter
and to get used to it. Like Obama today it was Carter’s
way of saying “this is bigger than all of us so it ain’t
my fault”. If the next GOP presidential nominee plays
the Reagan ‘morning in America’ card then it will be a
slam dunk against Hilarious. Even Democrats can only
take so much “it is what it is” talk. Reagan had good,
strong ideas but more than that he had the training and
experience to deliver his message. If you want to describe
that as supercool then at least we can agree on the
man if not the pathway.
Hmmmmmm. Ford did not pardon the draft dodgers.... Carter did, and outside of left wing circles, it was an very unpopular move.
When Reagan was President, I knew a woman who was a longtime friend from his lifeguard days. I asked what Reagan was really like. "Just like he seems" she replied.
As it happened, she had just received and showed me the gift of a large signed, mounted, and framed picture of Reagan standing on the back portico of the White House, impeccably dressed, but relaxed and smiling as he leaned against a column. The picture came with a handwritten letter from Reagan reminiscing about her late husband, Prescott, and their days as lifeguards.
Reagan, despite his super cool manner and genuine toughness, genuinely enjoyed writing and reading chatty letters with old friends. Beneath the polished manner, his impeccable appearance, and record of accomplishment was in fact a genuinely nice man.