That's what they said back in 1980! Even George Will endorsed Howard Baker.....HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
Didn't you watch the Republican debate Monday? They all sounded like Reagan......Conservative candidates who can properly communicate their message always win because conservatism is not "right WING", it is mainstream......just look at the "liberal" states Reagan won in BOTH elections.......
George Bush is not a conservative, but he campaigned like a conservative and won 2 elections without even being nearly as articulate as Reagan.......
if the GOP can put forward candidates who are conservative and articulate, liberals will never step foot in the White House again without an invitation.....there's a few good candidates out there now, and with Ryan, Rubio [VP?] and Jindal in the pipeline.....WOW!
Originally Posted by Marshall
What, you are looking for another liar to fool you?! Reagan was for free trade and basically open borders. He saw no reason for fruit to be rotting on trees when Mexicans would come over here and pick them for wages that Americans would not. You need to read your the records, not some Fox News spin. He also piles on a huge debt. That is what tax cuts and increased spending will do you know.
http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/r...-triple-legacy
The King of Debt
A born-again convert to supply side economics, Ronald Reagan came to office in 1981 promising to simultaneously slash taxes, massively increase defense spending and balance the budget. Instead, as his budget director
David Stockman acknowledged last year, Reagan produced red ink as far as the eye could see:
"[The] debt explosion has resulted not from big spending by the Democrats, but instead the Republican Party's embrace, about three decades ago, of the insidious doctrine that deficits don't matter if they result from tax cuts."
Which is exactly right. While the Republicans' fiscal rot deepened under George W. Bush, it began with Ronald Reagan. It was the legendary Gipper whose financial recklessness and tax-cutting fetish came to define the modern GOP.
The numbers tell the story. As predicted, Reagan's massive $749 billion supply-side tax
cuts in 1981 quickly produced even more massive annual budget deficits. Combined with his rapid increase in defense spending, Reagan delivered not the balanced budgets he promised, but record-settings deficits. Even
his OMB alchemist David Stockman could not obscure the disaster with his famous "rosy scenarios."
Forced to raise taxes twice to avert financial catastrophe (a fact conveniently forgotten in the conservative hagiography of Reagan manufactured by the GOP's 2008 ticket of
John McCain and
Sarah Palin), the Gipper nonetheless
presided over a tripling of the American national debt.
No more twittering for "the member." It's been announced that he's wrapping it up (as it should have been in the first place) and taking his toys home.
Originally Posted by I B Hankering
Ahhhh no more Weiner for you to play with!
