I see your Mary Carey for Governor ping list got denied. Why does McClintock get one but Mary Carey doesn't? BS, imho.
Gorbo gave the USSR a huge shove in the right direction, and then dissolved it and disbanded much of its military and political establishment. Yes, the commissars stole everything that wasn't nailed down on their way out the door: but they couldn't dress up their massive defalcations in Marxist theory, and they stand naked before the judgment of history and their countrymen as embezzlers of their national patrimony and criminals of the first water.
By dissolving the grotesque Soviet empire, Gorbachev did the world a huge favor. His intentions were to refresh, reform, and regenerate the Soviet state, but his acknowledgment that something called principles exists outside the grasp of Marxist-Leninist regime theoreticians (like the late Mikhail Suslov) set a clear benchmark of truth that showed up the whole mass of Marxist theory and Marxist-Leninist political practice as a palpable, walking lie and cost the Soviet regime the last of the Russian people's fealty. Gorbachev could not have done a better job of taking the Soviet empire apart if he'd been Ronald Reagan himself.
Unless you think I err......?