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Reagan was wrong on "free trade". Answer the question - are you now, or have you ever been, a Democrat?

Yes, yes, SS commmandant, I vill answer the question. In the area that I live in I am a registered democrat, for local reasons, since in primaries if I were registered as a Republican, there is no choice in the primary.

This way I have a say in trying to vote for the most conservative candidate in a heavily democratic area.

BTW, when I lived in Florida and Ohio, I was registered Republican.

BTW, where are those gifs of Ronald Reagan in tar and feathers.

He was a "free traitor" and proud of it, thus your sworn enemy.

Now for the actual facts which I have reviewed with Dane before. Ronald Reagan had tariffs raised and quotas put in place on Japanese automobiles coming to the USA. ronald Reagan was a "Free Trader" The way I am a "Free Trader" in that he generally supported Free Trade as defined by Adam Smith. That is tariffs are to be used to protect national defense industries, as retaliation or revenge, to foster industry and "to crack open markets.

Dane - we have been through this before if you had read sufficiently on Ronald Reagan you would know this for fact. If you had read his speeches and full statements you would not be saying he was a globalist style Free trader who belived in unilaterally lowering American tariffs. I further note it was not Ronald Reagan who signed off on NAFTA or GATT though clearly if he had wante dan end to American Tariffs unilaterally he could have proposed that and probably gotten it through Congress without much fuss muss or hassle.

Now I have reviewed the posts on this thread Dane and your first post to it was abusive and you have gotten more vitrioloic since. Now I have been trying to get away from any flames and I am not flaming you here. I have abjured the word "traitor" unless and until someone clearly states they would willingly trade with an enemy of the USA in time of war because all laws that interfere with the right to trade with anyone free of interference are an infringement on their natural rights. Now, Dane, you have not to my knowledge made any such statement.

In any case, Dane, you really should be concerned with civilly discussing issues and not trying to engage in heated rhetoric where you are misstating facts. I have provided you with accurate history and if you were to review Dinesh DeSouza's(sp?) works you would undertand that already.

Actually, what Reagan believed in was free trade that was fair. So basically, although encouraging trade as much as possible under the rhetoric of free trade...he was a fierce Neo-Mercantilist, who made sure that the U.S. had a level playing field to compete on. Foreign steel that was dumped got tariffed. Foreign cars had to pay a stiff duty if they paid the workers substantially less than ours, and they also had to abide by import quotas.