he'd be polling lower than Jindal.

There is no way he wins the nomination today. I actually think they'd hate him.

He was an out of touch dinosaur when he was elected.

In today's political environment.

I think we could go on and on about his "achievements."

I could tell you stories about selling American wheat to feed Soviet cattle at a cheaper price than Americans were paying for wheat to bake bread.

All from first hand experience.

Love that graphic!

He closed the loopholes in an attempt to fix the disaster his Kemp-Roth rate cuts created the year before. Instead of doing what an honest man would do - admit he fucked up and repeal Kemp-Roth - he closed some loopholes that really should have stayed open, like the non-mortgage interest deduction and the commercial-realty loss (aka "passive income loss&quot deduction. Killing the passive loss deduction was the straw that broke 747 camels' backs in one throw, that being the number of S&Ls that collapsed during Reagan's reign of terror.

Who else do they have? Nixon? Eisenhoweris way too liberal for them, they never say his name.
Bush the 1st? He sinned when he raised taxes (so did Reagan but he was 'charming'.)
I don' know how people vote GOP. They don't like to govern, all they do is wreck havoc for the next democratic President to clean up.

Reagan had a gauzy optimistic view and folksy mannerisms

That was fine with the people who pushed him into office, because what they wanted was an empty suit, whose real role was to deflect attention from what happened behind the scenes

And lots of ordinary folk adored him -- as long as they had no clue what was really happening

The same crowd pushed W into office twenty years later, with a similar "you could drink a beer with him" message, and the same intent to have empty suit, who could deflect attention from what was happening behind the scenes

The current crop of brainless Republican candidates shows that the same handler-culture still wants an empty suit

of course repukes would worship him

He was a national embarrassment, just like the rest of the GOP.