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Ardent15 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 12:34 AM Original message |
Why does the Right love Reagan so much? |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
1. he was the grandpa you always wanted but was nothing like the man you thought he was nt |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
2. Because he's an Icon |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 02:33 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. Yes. Reagan was a salesman and he was sold to the American people |
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mcctatas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 12:42 AM Response to Original message |
3. because he's dead... |
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Justitia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 12:43 AM Response to Original message |
4. Because he made them comfortable with their bigotry. -eom |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 08:30 AM Response to Reply #4 |
21. Exactly.. |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:06 AM Response to Reply #4 |
40. Exactly, he validated their ignorance...n/t |
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dancingme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:26 AM Response to Reply #4 |
47. Yes, he told white people that "welfare mothers" were taking their money |
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Zoeisright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:56 AM Response to Reply #4 |
54. +100000 |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 12:47 AM Response to Original message |
5. The economy, for most, was great during the Reagan years |
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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 10:54 AM Response to Reply #5 |
33. Were you an adult in the Reagan years? My mortgage was 16% interest |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:04 AM Response to Reply #33 |
39. When Reagan took office the prime rate was 20% |
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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:26 AM Response to Reply #39 |
46. Oh, well, I'm glad you think that paying 16% was an indication of a swell economy. |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:49 AM Response to Reply #46 |
51. You have to be careful about relying on statistics from websites |
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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 05:27 PM Response to Reply #51 |
69. Actually, one needs to be careful about relying on info provided by |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 07:48 PM Response to Reply #69 |
73. Thanks for the correction. nt |
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Viking12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:33 AM Response to Reply #5 |
48. Suuuuure.... it was great, yeah that's the ticket |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:58 AM Response to Reply #48 |
57. And then it fell to 5% by the end of his second term |
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Zoeisright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:56 AM Response to Reply #5 |
55. No it wasn't. |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 12:03 PM Response to Reply #55 |
61. I got out of college in '79 |
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BadgerKid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 12:55 AM Response to Original message |
6. He ushered in the decline of the power of labor |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 01:27 AM Response to Original message |
7. generation that watched his movies and were stupid enough to think he was like them |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 01:59 AM Response to Original message |
8. Because they can't face that he was a lying sack of shit, the smegma sealing their house of cards |
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ChicagoSuz219 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 02:03 AM Response to Original message |
9. Are you serious?? |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 10:55 AM Response to Reply #9 |
35. Bwah! nt |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 02:10 AM Response to Original message |
10. Because he got elected twice and didn't leave office in disgrace |
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pansypoo53219 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 02:38 AM Response to Original message |
12. cause he turned stupid |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 02:44 AM Response to Original message |
13. Because he was the most personable one. |
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Frank Cannon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 04:29 AM Response to Original message |
14. Because he made greed, bigotry, willful ignorance, and overall assholery fashionable |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 07:10 AM Response to Original message |
15. Why do Democrats, like Obama, amire the a$$hat? |
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melm00se (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 08:08 AM Response to Original message |
16. the answer is easy |
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Balbus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 08:17 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Look at you, with all your fancy research. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 10:39 AM Response to Reply #16 |
29. Airbrushing Reagan. |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 10:49 AM Response to Reply #29 |
31. +100. |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:09 AM Response to Reply #16 |
42. Um, the prime rate was 11% when Reagan left office |
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melm00se (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 02:43 PM Response to Reply #42 |
67. ummmm.... |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 03:19 PM Response to Reply #67 |
68. Fed funds reflects what the treasury wants interest rates to do |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 07:46 PM Response to Reply #67 |
70. Oh, baloney. Those bodies aren't "ideology". |
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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 08:11 AM Response to Original message |
17. Just to piss off the left. n/t |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 08:20 AM Response to Original message |
19. There is no simple talking point to answer with |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 10:51 AM Response to Reply #19 |
32. +1 |
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Fuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 08:28 AM Response to Original message |
20. I wrote this on another board a few days ago. |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 08:45 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. That whole "Carter wuz weak" shit always angered me. |
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melm00se (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 09:00 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. it's the appearance |
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mysticalchick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 09:14 AM Response to Original message |
24. I have NO idea |
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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 09:19 AM Response to Original message |
25. Because he won by such a huge margin that it makes their ideology somewhat credible. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 09:21 AM Response to Original message |
26. He read exactly what they put on his teleprompter with the flair of an Irish smart-ass |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:20 AM Response to Reply #26 |
44. His talent was delivering one-liners. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-12-10 12:04 AM Response to Reply #44 |
74. No doubt about it, "We begin bombing in five minutes" comes to mind... |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 09:24 AM Response to Original message |
27. Mostly infantile longing - he resembles the Strong, Wise Father they never had . . . |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:15 AM Response to Reply #27 |
43. Makes you wonder if he prepared by watching episodes of |
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Berry Cool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
28. Because he had so much hat, they didn't care when they found out he had no cattle |
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TransitJohn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
30. They're confused and thought he was John Wayne. |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
34. Tax cuts? |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
36. He had a "folksy" humor and was a good, comfortable public speaker |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:07 AM Response to Reply #36 |
41. He's Sarah Palin's political grandaddy, and she points that out |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 02:00 PM Response to Reply #41 |
64. Well, they are both full of shit and have very little grasp of reality, so.......nt |
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handmade34 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
37. because they can |
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ThomThom (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
38. because they have been told to |
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Joanne98 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
45. Because he handed over the country to Wall Street. |
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davekriss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
49. Gil Scott-Heron nailed it in the eighties |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
50. Revisionist historians have been hard at work, just as they are doing with Bush. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:53 AM Response to Reply #50 |
52. It's so odd that the Republicans do well at working on long term |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 01:46 PM Response to Reply #52 |
63. Sadly, that seems due to the ever-increasing power of the corporations. |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
53. They admired a simpleton who allowed them to shut off their brains |
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oldlib (549 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
56. Reagan was a lousy actor, |
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phasma ex machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-12-10 02:45 AM Response to Reply #56 |
78. Ronald Reagan: America's Leading Man |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
58. because he acted like the character he played while in Hollywood |
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laureloak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
59. They love their idealized version of Reagan, not the real one. |
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berttheturk (44 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
60. I think he was viewed as good for American buisnesses. I work in a |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 07:47 PM Response to Reply #60 |
71. I bet you do. |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
62. The end of the Fairness Doctrine |
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Green_Lantern (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
65. because he was the first modern conservative President... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 02:31 PM Response to Reply #65 |
66. And in order to do that, he had to be a front man, not a statesman. |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-11-10 07:48 PM Response to Original message |
72. He told people what they wanted to hear. |
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ChoppinBroccoli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-12-10 01:14 AM Response to Original message |
75. I Formed This Theory In College, And It Seems To Hold Up |
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KonaKane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-12-10 01:15 AM Response to Original message |
76. RayGun signed the Brady Bill |
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OnionPatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-12-10 01:19 AM Response to Original message |
77. Because he was able to screw us all with a smile. |
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