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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Romney could have been Reagan..."
OMG. Chuck Todd blowviates. I swear I just heard him say that.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)That's Reagan right now.
or a living vegetable
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)tsuki
(11,994 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)is only half the sentence, "but the party was an albatross around his neck." The full context of the conversation was about how the GOP is on the ropes.
dsc
(52,164 posts)I certainly have no respect for the policies of Reagan but he was a master politician. Romney might have been the worst politician ever to win the nomination of a major party.
Rider3
(919 posts)was the beginning of the end of this economy. This is where the ill-fated trickle-down economics did us in, weakened the middle class, and started the class warfare. Yeah, just what we want/need.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)Not running as an (R) anyway.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)spanone
(135,854 posts)brokechris
(192 posts)rustydog
(9,186 posts)A political failure whose lack of accomplishment in life is eclipsed only by Sarah Plain and stupid.
Solly Mack
(90,776 posts)Snicker.
Initech
(100,087 posts)When you consider that Reagan had a history of screwing over the poor and the middle class, and his hatred for every thing modern and a tendency to want to take back to some weird Honeymooners / Dick Van Dyke era that never existed in the first place.
Gothmog
(145,375 posts)When he tries to play with numbers, it is clear that he does not really understand these numbers
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)makers out there, this would not be considered a compliment. I hate how this cartoonish superhero image of Reagan goes unquestioned and promoted in the media.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)had run on a more moderate platform, he would have won given the effects that the economy would have had on President Obama. Remember that when Jimmy Carter lost in 80, the nation had slipped into a recession and was losing jobs.
LeftInTX
(25,424 posts)"No president has been re-elected with unemployment at 8%"
I think that is why so many nut jobs were involved. They were convinced all they had to do was get nominated and they would win by default.
Cha
(297,378 posts)anything.
Imv, all reagun had going for him was ..he was a silver tongued devil. romney is evil..so there's that.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)What a surprise!!
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Or does he get all the hot dogs and Oreos he can eat in lieu of pay?
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)But for now, he's breathing.
Johonny
(20,860 posts)or would he have another banking crisis or lead us right into recession or spend trillions on missile defense against a country that no longer exists...
He had the dying the hair down.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Indeed.
JHB
(37,161 posts)GatorOrange
(63 posts)Reagan's greatest skill was selling an absolute crap sandwich to a chunk of the American people under the auspices of furthering American Exceptionalism. No Repuke since has sold that crap sandwich as well.
Romney was probably the worst candidate the GOP fielded in 50+ years. No bravado, arrogant superiority oozing out of his pores, and no Reagan-esque way of selling the crap sandwich that is conservatism at its core.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)set back advances toward alternative energy a quarter of a century....
Yep. Romney would have been another Reagan.
Historic NY
(37,451 posts)silly toad.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,072 posts)Trying so hard to grow a chin.
lastlib
(23,252 posts)One overprivileged rich-boy idiot bag of shit was president for eight years; the other one never will be.