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In reply to the discussion: Bill Maher on Ronald Reagan last night - must see TV [View all]Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)23. Eek!
Maher needed to include a few zingers in there to help make his point.
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Yeah, I loathed him when he was Governor of CA, and I didn't live there. Bill is spot on about RR.
freshwest
Jun 2013
#99
In the Beltway Reagan's two terms was PROOF that America had turned...
Spitfire of ATJ
Jun 2013
#151
Makes me wonder though, who did Bill Maher vote for in 1980? He is NOT a democratic voter.
graham4anything
Jun 2013
#3
Couldn't care less who Maher voted for 33 years ago. He's comes down on the side of issues that
Ed Suspicious
Jun 2013
#9
MILLIONS of people with AIDS died during Ronald Reagan's first term. I don't find it funny
graham4anything
Jun 2013
#54
people who voted for Reagan/Bush/NaderEisenhower/Nixon got 100% OF what they wanted to get.
graham4anything
Jun 2013
#64
RR won a narrow victory in 1980: With 489 electoral votes? 55% of the popular vote?
Honeycombe8
Jun 2013
#24
55% of the popular vote. Almost 91% electoral votes. Huge landslide that dreams are made of
Honeycombe8
Jun 2013
#36
The gap in the figures I quoted? Those were Anderson's. RR got 91% electoral votes & 48 states
Honeycombe8
Jun 2013
#109
Add up 3rd party (repub Anderson to Carter, and take out the sabatoge of the Hostages(now proven)...
graham4anything
Jun 2013
#56
I forgave Teddy, but it should have been Carter/Kennedy (and they should have given Mondale another)
graham4anything
Jun 2013
#77
Was graham for Ronnie? I sure wasn't. Obama, I think he voted Reagan if he even bothered
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2013
#41
Actually, it's more out of actual FEAR of being seen on a show where that was said...
Spitfire of ATJ
Jun 2013
#31
A lot of people here will give you a list of staffers guilty of crimes during Reagan but,....
Spitfire of ATJ
Jun 2013
#117
True. But I do think he wasn't as extreme as current tea partiers, like Cruz. nt
Honeycombe8
Jun 2013
#38
He was complicit in the genocide of indigenous peoples in Central and South America.
Rozlee
Jun 2013
#105
Oh, I don't need quotes. I REMEMBER RR very well. But he WOULD compromise...
Honeycombe8
Jun 2013
#107
Yes. Far right. All about money and the privileged. But not wacko, & he would compromise....
Honeycombe8
Jun 2013
#108
In the early 1960s, he was one step removed from the John Birch Society....
YoungDemCA
Jun 2013
#115
Not to mention Clinton had his faults for sure, but is still more highly rated than Reagan today
MillennialDem
Jun 2013
#44
So do I. Thanks for a positive note here, the only one for the gipper.
mountain grammy
Jun 2013
#137
Of all the bad things Reagan did to us, perhaps the worst is he gave us Peggy Noonan.
Gidney N Cloyd
Jun 2013
#33
Amazing how many peasants still love their oppressors and hate the oppressed (from 2011).
HughBeaumont
Jun 2013
#39
On every major national problem you can trace its source back to the early 1980s.
1-Old-Man
Jun 2013
#62
If nothing else you have to give him credit when one/two Republicans are sitting inches away...
Dawgs
Jun 2013
#89
Like Benedict Arnold, Ronald Reagan should forever be associated with national disgrace.
Zorra
Jun 2013
#101
it's true - no point in trying to candy coat the past - Reagan was all of that and worse
Douglas Carpenter
Jun 2013
#126
Before destroying the whole country, Reagan destroyed my beautiful California.
SunSeeker
Jun 2013
#140