[kylaka]

You miss the point. The left is still pissed about the collapse of the Soviet Union and BLAME Reagan for it.

[weegee]

I heard part of Alan Colmes radio show yesterday. He was claiming that Reagan was just in the right place when the Soviet Union collapsed; that President Reagan had nothing to do with it, it just happened under his watch.

There were also circular arguments that despite claims from aides and even family members about the portrayal of Ronald Reagan using the Lord's name in vain (they claim he didn't ever do that) that people really use these words and that the aide wasn't there 24 hours a day, and that besides these stories aren't ever entirely factually correct. He said that Buddy Holly fanatics would find flaws with the Buddy Holly Story (especially some of the conversations fabricated to tell the story).

Alan did not want to concede the point that this is a political smear. He's a lying liar like so many on the left.

[Starboard]

Don't disagree with your point, and acknowledge there's a lot of room for exploration/expansion on this very issue. However, I was trying to keep on topic (hard to do sometimes!) in a response to a previous poster.

BTW, you may want to check out the book 'Useful Idiots' by Mona Charen. Subtitle is "How liberals got it wrong in the Cold War and still blame America first." Good read.

Regards.