I am getting a little tired of elevating pres Reagan to this super star status by ALL republicans.
To be sure, Reagan was the best president since I arrived in this great country in 1960. But just as a reality check can I list a few things I did not like?
During Reagan’s 8 years-—
> Spending Tripled
> Illegal immigrants were granted full amnesty
> appointed pro-choice people to SCOTUS such as Sandra O’Connor
> 8 Million+ abortions took place (based on Laura Ingrahams figures quoted on her show of 40 million abortions in 35 years)
Now inspite of above, why I think Reagan was the best,
> Engineered collapse of Soviet Union
> Huge Tax cuts
> Misery index dropped precipitously, incl interest rates
> Iran released American hostages almost immediately
> Taught Kaddafi a lesson
> Most of all, American presitige in world grew!
Reading FR day after day, and listening to the candidates night after night, I’m beginning to think in religious terms of “The Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, and Ronald Reagan.” He was a great president and I loved him as did all (most?) Republicans. But he is not running for President. He is dead. He is gone. We have GOT to deal with what we have now for better or worse. Constant comparisons are making all the candidates pale, and thus we weaken as a unity. If we are so divided because no one measures up (except possibly Thompson who didn’t have enough gumption to jump in on time to fight for his own very correct principles) then the Dems win. And THAT would be a disaster. At some point we have to look forward realistically with what we’ve got.