Ray gun was the worst President in my life time

[mdmc]

But he was also the best mentally ill president that we have ever had, with the possible exception of (bipolar / manic depression :shrug: ) Abraham Lincoln.

[ronnykmarshall]

1. RR was a saint ....

compared to W.

[mdmc]

5. I disagree

but to each his own.

Raygun created W.'s enemies. W (and 'merika) fought those enemies.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Nah! Two Sides Of The Same Coin

The Professor

[Virginia Dare]

21. He was just the prelude to W...

he gave all the Nixon criminals a job, and then they all crawled out of their holes again in 2000 to commit more crimes. I'm just hoping this is the end of the line for all of them.

[ThomWV]

30. Unfortunately their young spawn are borrowed in all over the Agencies

All that born-again fanatic-trash that is coming out of the bible-colleges that they've installed in high civil service positions throughout the Agencies are going to come out like locusts a generation from now to royally fuck up everything they touch. The cycle never ends.

[TahitiNut]

25. Agreed. ANYONE who can't comprehend the stunning pathologies of 'W' ...

... has their head up their ass. Reagan was a piker compared to the Cheney/Bush regime.

[Ken Burch]

2. DId you mean he was the best president who was mentally ill,

Or the best at BEING mentally ill?:shrug:

[mdmc]

Best mentally ill pres...

sorry for the confusion...

[Ken Burch]

10. No prob.

Come of think of it, Nixon was way better at BEING nuts.

[mdmc]

7. Best mentally ill pres...

sorry for the confusion...

[onenote]

3. are you visiting us from the grave?

Because as bad as reagan was -- and he was very bad -- chimpy leaves him in the dust.

[Blue_In_AK]

8. However...

Chimpy could not have existed without Reagan (or whoever was propping him up) laying the groundwork.

[niyad]

4. self-delete

[GreenTea]

6. Reagan started the corporate fascist movement and Bush is finishing it....and still is daily!

[Xipe Totec]

9. Ronny and George have one thing in common,

They each managed to have one space shuttle blow up on their watch.

[ronnykmarshall]

11. That's "Ronnie" not "Ronny"

one of the reasons I changed the spelling of my name.

[Xipe Totec]

17. Both are used, unfortunately

I googled and found both instances. :shrug:

[pansypoo53219]

13. oh, not to me.

i WISH i was able to be back in the horrid days of RR instead of qWayle. georgie is surely the worst.

[Buzz Clik]

14. So, Reagan was worse than this meat sack we have now. Fascinating.

[mdmc]

15. much worse

far much worse.
At least the sheeple see what an evil sob w. is.

[Buzz Clik]

18. Well, I'm going to disagree. It's not even close.

[mdmc]

22. what did w. ever do that was so bad?

Sure, he invaded Iraq on a lie, but that is what the sheeple desired.

Even now, only Kucinich and Paul think that we would be safer with Saddam alive and in power. If removing Saddam from power makes us safer (:eyes: ), then Bush did the right thing by invading Iraq.

W. is the result of Raygun. The neo-cons would have died off after Nixon if it was not for Raygun.

[Atman]

24. Uh...um...what?

"only Kucinich and Paul think that we would be safer with Saddam alive and in power."

Really? So, even though he wasn't threatening the United States in any way, and given that it was our removal of him that set off the shitstorm we're presently seeing in the ME, you think only crazies like DK and Paul think we'd be "safer" if he had been left alone? Really?

Wow.

.

[mdmc]

33. Don't ask me, ask all the 2008 presidential candidates, in both parties

Everyone except Paul and Kucinich thinks that the world is a safer place without Saddam in power.

Only Kucinich and Paul think that we should have left Saddam in power. The rest of the presidential field disagrees.

For the record, I opposed the Iraq war because I thought that a stable, pro-west, unified, democratic Iraq would take over 50 years of American occupation to achieve. At 50 American loses per year (my initial estimate), I did not think it was worth it.

I often wonder how long HRC thought it would take to achieve victory. I always knew that this was a multiple decade effort.

[Richard Steele]

31. Dude, what's up with the praising BUSH, fer Chrissakes? Are you huffing paint?

[mdmc]

34. At least the sheeple know what w. is

:shrug:

I dislike w. a great deal. I don't think he was worse then Ray-gun.

[AzDar]

16. St. Ronnie was the beginning of the end, imho.

[catmandu57]

19. St. ronnie the rayguns damn near killed me

I spent most of that fuckers time broke, homeless, and hopeless. My hatred for that putrid piece of filth grows each day as I think of what might have been. Fuck him, fuck jawbone george* fuck anyone that even remotely looks like either of them.

Edit: Damn fat fingers

[Johonny]

20. So you died in 2000?

Because W is much, much worse.

For starter RR knew when to pick his military up and leave.

[Bobbieo]

23. Would Reagan's legacies have been passed on if Gore would have won the presidency in 2000?

[Johonny]

27. It's hard to say what Reagan's legacy is

A lot of Republicans quote being just like Reagan, but most of them aren't very much like Reagan. Reagan's era died not soon after Reagan left office. One might argue Reagan was fighting the fight of his generation; against the new deal and against communism. Bush's administration was fighting the fight of his generation; against the 60's cultural revolution and Vietnam era military. I think it's fair to say Gore being a baby boomer would have fought the same ideological battles as the Bush administration, but with very different conclusions.

One might add the Bush administration seemed interested in over turning all progressive gain in the last 250 some odd years of the US. Something neither Clinton, H. W. or Gore seem interested in doing. Bush administration seems to have become a warehouse of bad ideas revisted.

[backscatter712]

26. You were right, up until 2001...

You don't mean to suggest that Raygun's actually worse than Dumbya, do you?

[Marr]

28. Reagan was the FDR of the truly wealthy.

Everything he did was meant to weaken the middle class and empower the wealthy. That's what his policies were really about, and that's why he's been canonized in certain quarters.

We've got a relatively small group of plutocrats who agree with Reagan's position that we need a two-tiered society of wealth and abject poverty. These plutocrats also own most of the big media outlets in this country, and so naturally, there are a lot of dupes who now praise Reagan without really knowing why they're doing it.

Ask them why Reagan was so great, and they'll give you a few platitudes, and a couple of easily-debunked myths.

[navarth]

29. at least Reagan know how to say nuclear

but hey look!!

something that unites DU!!!

I'm liking Reagan a bit better...I'll only piss on his grave for 5 minutes now, not 10

[lutefisk]

32. So, you don't believe that George W. Bush is mentally ill?

I do, and that means if Reagan is the best mentally ill President, then Junior is worse than Dutch Reagan.

[mdmc]

35. I am sure he is an alcoholic and drug addict

I am unsure about any other diagnosis.

I do not think that Bush was a better mentally ill president. I think that Raygun was the best of our mentally ill presidents.