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Another link to the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG5WAFzwlIA

1 posted on 01/01/2016 10:26:18 AM PST by pinochet
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By the way, Nancy Reagan was Supercool in her own right.

An active link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG5WAFzwlIA


2 posted on 01/01/2016 10:27:58 AM PST by pinochet
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What a great video, thanks. Not only fun but seeing again so many of my favorites enjoying the roast. :)


4 posted on 01/01/2016 10:31:52 AM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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bump


5 posted on 01/01/2016 10:31:57 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("Look, the establishment doesn't want me, because I don't need the establishment." --Donald Trump)
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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.


6 posted on 01/01/2016 10:32:02 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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I think Obama took a cue from Reagan. He chose Bonzo Biden as a running mate.


8 posted on 01/01/2016 10:37:39 AM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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I’m sure there were purist future FReepers in 1979 who would have questioned Reagan keeping such dubious company.


10 posted on 01/01/2016 10:44:23 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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Oh, how great to see the old familiar faces...probably most of these great stars are departed by now.

Thanks for the link to Memory Lane.

Leni

11 posted on 01/01/2016 10:44:51 AM PST by MinuteGal ("We will take things away from you on behalf of the common good"...Karl Marx...oops, Hillary Clinton)
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l loved it!

tHanks for posting!


15 posted on 01/01/2016 10:55:23 AM PST by basil ( God bless the USA! AMEN!)
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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”.


16 posted on 01/01/2016 11:00:08 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (This space for rent.)
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“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.


17 posted on 01/01/2016 11:14:32 AM PST by I cannot think of a name
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It would be nice if much of government work was just getting basic stuff done right. Then presidents would be chosen purely on organizational and inspirational qualities.

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.

18 posted on 01/01/2016 11:23:40 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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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.”.


19 posted on 01/01/2016 11:23:48 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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Why is Reagan never seen with anyone else? Odd editing


20 posted on 01/01/2016 11:40:38 AM PST by montag813
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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.


21 posted on 01/01/2016 12:10:35 PM PST by Sivad (Juan Corona would vote for Democrats)
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The media and the country really loved Ford, for pardoning the middle class kids who fled to Canada, to avoid serving in the Vietnam war.

Hmmmmmm. Ford did not pardon the draft dodgers.... Carter did, and outside of left wing circles, it was an very unpopular move.

22 posted on 01/01/2016 12:34:53 PM PST by Ditto
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Here is a good one. And there is another great actor on the far right who would have made a great President.
26 posted on 01/01/2016 1:16:48 PM PST by CapnJack
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Good points. Reagan's election in 1980 was assured as the public became more acquainted with him and confident that he was not as Democratic myth had it, a militarist who would risk nuclear war and a radical right winger intending to dismantle the welfare state.

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.

29 posted on 01/01/2016 4:36:30 PM PST by Rockingham
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Muhammad Ali became the heavyweight boxing champion of the world because because Sonny Liston took a dive.
30 posted on 01/02/2016 2:23:20 PM PST by itsahoot (Anyone receiving a Woo! Woo! for President has never won anything after the award.)
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