The history of the republican voter is stunning.

[shockey80]

If you go back to Herbert Hoover the republican voters have elected seven presidents. Three of them have been complete failures. Hoover , Nixon and BushII. They are three of the worst presidents in our history. Reagan, Bush1 and Ike were good or acceptable presidents. Some people here may disagree. That is a 50% failure rate. Now they have elected Trump. That means republican voters fail more than 50% of the time when they elect a president.

If you look at the democrats voting record during the same time period you can see a big difference. FDR, Truman, Kennedy, Carter, Clinton, Obama. One failure with Carter.

Bring this record up when ever you talk to a republican voter.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Ronnie was a complete failure wrapped in a PR campaign and public ignorance. Bush1

was barely acceptable.

When a party has NO GOOD IDEAS about anything, they can not have even a barely acceptable president. They hate government. They cannot govern. Hell, they must hate themselves.

Carter was not a failure.

When a party has to cheat to "win" - well, it's got nothing.

[Doreen]

9. Yeah, I loath Reagan but not as much as Trump.

It is sick to say I would rather have Reagan than trump though if I was forced to choose.

[demmiblue]

2. What kind of bullshite is this?

[malchickiwick]

3. Carter a failure? Fuck off with that shit!

[SharonAnn]

16. He's the one who got inflation under control. Nixon and Ford couldn't do it.

That cause some pain, but it was necessary.

In addition, the 1973 war in Israel and the oil boycott severely affected our economy. But, not his fault and he got us through it better than any of the GOP would've.

[Rhiannon12866]

21. I'm certainly with you on that one!

The Camp David Accords?? That was a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel that has lasted to this day. And I know that it's conventional wisdom that Reagan was instrumental in the fall of the USSR. But what would have happened without Carter's grain embargo?

I was in the USSR during the Reagan years and the people we spoke to hated Reagan because he made things tougher for them. Gorbachev was attempting to institute more progressive policies - glasnost - but the hard liners were so freaked out by Reagan that it was one step forward, two steps back.

[Doreen]

5. Reagan acceptable? are you flippin joking?

I most defiantly live in a area where he was not even close to acceptable. We are still recovering from him and NEITHER Bush did any good. Yet, most people in the area voted for them. In my book until Trump came along Reagan was the worst and both Bushes a close second together. Now Trump out shines all three and they have gone to second an third.

[HughBeaumont]

6. Reagan?

Mr. High Treason?
Mr. Union Buster?
Mr. Blue Collar Killer?
Mr. Garn-St. Germain Act, which led to the S&L Crisis?
Mr. 138 Indicted Officials?
Mr. I hate socialized medicine, leading to us STILL being the only industrialized first world nation that has no multi-payer health system?

THAT'S a good presidency?

[progree]

11. He nearly tripled the national debt too (nm)

[caroldansen]

7. I love those words democratic president. Thank you for posting that.

[shockey80]

8. The Iranian hostage crisis ruined carter.

He blew it. I was in the military at that time. I was pissed off at Carter. That was a act of war. Carter lacked balls. The rescue mission was a total disaster. Carter failed.

[shockey80]

10. I agree with you about reagan.

The majority of americans, Including some democrats liked reagan. Thats a fact. Thats why i did not put him in the disaster column.

[DesertRat]

13. You are agreeing with yourself about Reagan?

[progree]

15. I don't think he will be agreeing or disagreeing with himself or anyone else in this thread anymore

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[demmiblue]

19. Strange that the jury let the initial OP stand.

[demmiblue]

20. Hmmm...

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

12. "Bring this record up when ever you talk to a republican voter".

That seems to assume the typical rethug voter can acknowledge, much less accept, historical fact and reality. In my personal experiences, they cannot. Or will not.

[Elwood P Dowd]

14. .........

[n2doc]

17. Somethings....missing...

[Blue_true]

18. Carter wasn't a failure. We would be far better off as a nation

if Carter had won in 1980.