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A couple of things. I'm sure I'll be called everything from neo-conservative to libertarian to a cry baby to whatever else you people have to do to keep yourselves from admitting the truth, but I just couldn't resist sharing the multiple laughs from this statement:

I know you are kidding but I am sick of this conservative president [GUFFAW] being held to a mythological standard of Ronald Reagan that is both historically inaccurate [Have you actually READ anything that Reagan wrote? I have, and I'm sure my standard is quite accurate, both historical and otherwise] and is being perpetrated by the same John Birch Society wing of the political right that demonized Reagan [CHORTLE - I collect Reagan memorabilia. He's my hero. And I think GW Bush is a pu--y and a coward, and most importantly he's a RINO. Please don't use those two names in the same sentence]

I collect Reagan memorabilia.

Does any of that memorabilia include Reagan's public lobbying for the Brady Bill after he left office, or his signature on a 15 day waiting period gun law in California, or his insistence that an amnesty be granted across the board for illegal aliens?

If you have read "anything Reagan wrote," (I worked for the guy at a fundraiser in CA, by the way), you would know, from "An American Life" his autobiography that the sole reason he was solicited to run for governor of CA was because he could bridge the gap between the "MODERATES" and the "CONSERVATIVES." You would know from that same book that he frequently complained about the "hard-right" who would rather lose on principle than compromise a little and win. You would know that he considered the 1986 tax INCREASE to be a defeat.

You would know all this because you read his own book, right? You would also know what isn't in the book---that despite his wonderful, eloquent speeches and writings on abortion, in his 8 years he did virtually nothing, but in less than 2 years, GWB has already issued three Ex Orders that have reduced abortions on federal properties, revived "parental consent," and otherwise ACTUALLY REDUCED abortions.

Reagan, whom I love as a president, was nevertheless FAR from the model "conservative" you think, and Bush far closer than you think (in terms of actual results). BTW, what do you want to be that the size of government/GNP is smaller under Bush than under Reagan, at any year?