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When I heard "The Won" try to compare himself with Reagan I almost crapped my pants I laughed so hard.
Reagan only made one mistake. Not aborting Little Ron, but Reagan was Pro-life.
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I do not get why conservatives love Ronald Reagan so much. Gov't spending increased and deficits went up. The nation as a whole had a good decade in the 1980's as after 1982 the economy really started to pickup and eventually got red hot, but if that is your criteria Bill Clinton could be a conservative hero as the economy heated up after 1993 during his term.
I do not get why conservatives love Ronald Reagan so much.
Bill Clinton could be a conservative hero as the economy heated up after 1993 during his term.
The myth of Reagan's presidency is celebrated wildly by the Righties, but the reality of it would surely have many calling him a RINO, today.
Reagan only made one mistake. Not aborting Little Ron, but Reagan was Pro-life.
Speaking of revisionist history...how quickly we forget about Reagan and Central America.
Reagan only made one mistake. Not aborting Little Ron, but Reagan was Pro-life.
I do not get why conservatives love Ronald Reagan so much. Gov't spending increased and deficits went up. The nation as a whole had a good decade in the 1980's as after 1982 the economy really started to pickup and eventually got red hot, but if that is your criteria Bill Clinton could be a conservative hero as the economy heated up after 1993 during his term.
This has to be one of the most horrible things I've read on this forum.
Oh, come on! Not even close! You've seen the links to some of my music...
About the only thing wrong with the 80's was the hair.
The hair was just awful.
The way I understand it by Righties who were politically aware during that time (I was not), the reason Reagan is so widely celebrated was because he won the Cold War using tactics of which they heartily approve.
Even though there were no bombs being dropped and no tanks were plowing over the rubble of the city building they destroyed, we were most certainly in a far reaching and deeply rooted war. And Reagan won that war by scaring the piss out of the commies with is gung-ho demeanor, and spending way more money on defense than the Soviets ever could.
And he was big into supply-side economics, which conservatives tend to favor.
I'm not here to debate the veracity of these observations. Only relaying the reasons why conservatives still hold him in extremely high regard, despite his surface appearance of being very liberal with the checkbook. He was the president we needed at the time.
Reagan's role in winning the Cold War is up for debate, but like all historical questions it is complicated and most people's beliefs tend to be what they want history to show, rather than what they know history shows. Coming up from a liberal background my instinct is that Reagan was simply part of the Cold War Foreign Policy tradition, though perhaps slightly more aggressive. I doubt his supporters would agree. I have books about periods of time when the Cold War was ongoing, but I have never really focused on reading about the Cold War nor Reagans specific contribution to it. I think liberal historians like to give Truman a lot of credit for winning the cold war and I would be willing to bet conservatives see him playing a smaller role in setting Cold War Foreign policy.
The way I understand it by Righties who were politically aware during that time (I was not), the reason Reagan is so widely celebrated was because he won the Cold War using tactics of which they heartily approve.
Even though there were no bombs being dropped and no tanks were plowing over the rubble of the city building they destroyed, we were most certainly in a far reaching and deeply rooted war. And Reagan won that war by scaring the piss out of the commies with is gung-ho demeanor, and spending way more money on defense than the Soviets ever could.
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Not to mention completely marginalizing Mikhail Gorbachev's role. If Gorby wasn't there, that wall doesn't come down when it did.
Isn't that a key tenant of your plan to bring sexy back?I'll be so glad when miniskirts are back in fashion again.