To: The Raven
Well the liberal are overstating this...
But Reagan had three advantages over Bush43.
1. The Iranian hostages were freed the day he was inaugurated.
2. Even Democrats were tired of Carter
3. Reagan was a once in a generation speaker.
Then he was shot, lived and came back even stronger and brought the iron curtain down while lowering taxes. Even people who didn't like his politics had grudging admiration for at least some of that.
7 posted on
07/17/2006 4:36:43 AM PDT by
gondramB
(The options on the table have been there from the beginning. Withdraw and fail or commit and succeed)
To: gondramB
31 posted on
07/17/2006 5:34:34 AM PDT by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: gondramB
Even people who didn't like his politics had grudging admiration for at least some of that. You're right that they should have, but all I remember was non-stop hatred and the persecution of his staff by way of the courts, and of course the Fifth Column . . . I mean the Fourth Estate.
To: gondramB
But Reagan had three advantages over Bush43. 1. The Iranian hostages were freed the day he was inaugurated.
That was no accident. Reagan talked trash to the Iranians once he became president-elect and it worked.
Reagan had a huge disadvantage of taking over under a dark cloud caused by Vietnam, Watergate, Kissinger, and Carter. I won't even mention the MSM because they've been an ever present enemy to this day.
53 posted on
07/17/2006 9:53:23 AM PDT by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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