[Red6]

The left doesn't understand Reagan and they sure as hell have no respect or appreciation in the things he believed in. They simply can't deny the facts that this man more so than anyone else helped end the Cold War, brought down the wall; got us out of a horrible economic crisis called “stagflation,” dealt blows to Libya, Iran, deregulated the airlines and banking with great results, and foresaw the need for missile defense........ Reagan was more than pretty words and in hind sight few can deny the virtue of his actions. When it comes to Reagan you have two types:

Those who generally stay quiet since they years past despised and mocked him and today would rather not remember their own words.

Those on the left who like Obama want to wrap their arms around the “positive concept” of Reagan even though they in all reality stand in complete opposition to everything this man believed in and did.

[onguard]

Sometimes I worry that part of Reagan’s legacy is that “deficits don’t matter”, famously ascribed to Cheney. This is unfair to Reagan, who raised taxes to try to bring balance back to the budget, and it is a betrayal of one of the core values of conservatism.

[onguard]

“Those on the left who like Obama want to wrap their arms around the “positive concept” of Reagan even though they in all reality stand in complete opposition to everything this man believed in and did.”

I think that as they got older and moved up into the higher income brackets, the wisdom of reducing the top tax bracket from 70% to 28% has become clear to them.

[uglybiker]

Those on the left who like Obama want to wrap their arms around the “positive concept” of Reagan even though they in all reality stand in complete opposition to everything this man believed in and did.

And, to a lesser extent, they do the same thing with Truman.

Harry would not like what his party has become.