[Mr. K]

No, he wasn’t.

He screwed-up the Reagan Legacy he was handed by implementing the biggest tax increase in history.

[jpl]

Yep. He also enshrined this lousy idea that it's America's responsibility to be the world's police force and achieve the impossible goal of eliminating all evil in the world.

An idea that we still can't seem to fully do away with, even though every sensible person has come to realize what a stupid and terrible idea it was, and thus we still have good young American men getting killed for no good reason whatsoever.

[Parmy]

YES!!!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

He screwed-up the Reagan Legacy he was handed by implementing the biggest tax increase in history.

Worse than simply being wrong, he broke a pledge in doing so - and passing that tax increase was a Catch-22. If the tax increase helped the economy, the great plank of the Reagan legacy which had the Democrats on their heels was destroyed - and that’s if he was right (economically) in doing so. But if it failed - and it certainly didn’t leave him with a roaring economy - he lost the election.

Either way, the Republic would have lost. And look what it bought us.