[ronald reagan]

My response to 03 was not intended to taken as a Reagan mini-biography, rather his days as president. See, the difference is I was there I voted for Reagan, I don't have to go on line and look stuff up. And, I don't need any help finding my opinion from somebody that thinks God supports gay marriage and, who wasn't even alive, or at best still soiling his little diapers, when the man was president. You're like all the rest of the young-uns running around repeating what they hear. Reagan's views evolved over time to make him the man he was during his days as president. His genius was his ability to take advice from the very talented people he surrounded himself with. Serious writtings of his presidency all agree that Reagan was one of the most conservative presidents in history. If you truly believe otherwise you need to look into the matter further. Calling the income tax scale, redistribution of wealth is baloney, and I can see you're easily influenced by whatever particular slant the author of the article you happened to land on was selling.

I was there when he came in and saved our economy from the ravenges of interest rates and inflation rates north of 18%. I saw him rebuild our military and face down the soviets. I watched the O'Connor confirmation hearings and I know for a fact Reagan thought, as did everybody else, she would judge more conservatively than she actually did. Reagan added about 1 and a half trillion to our national debt in his 8 years at the helm, largely due to social security going into insolvency and medicare expansion. I guess you must have missed the fact that presidents in this land wind up governing from the middle? Clinton certainly moderated to the right in order to win his reelection bid. Presidents and governors often compromise to some extent with their legislatures to serve the common good, hence, liberal programs like medicare get funded.

It's no secret that Reagan left the democrat party and became a republican. He was union and he had a lot of California's liberal influence in his life. But, liberal in those days compared to liberal in this day is hardly comparable. Reagan didn't push any liberal agenda when he was president. He did govern from the middle right, and it is no wonder why he had to that with a staunch liberal like Tip O'Neill being speaker of the House for nearly all of the Reagan presidency. I mean, lots of people continue to find enlightenment thoughout their life time. As they grow older, they grow wiser, Reagan was proud of the way life experiences made him grow in understanding and knowledge. He was in fact one of the most consevative presidents we have ever seen, and the most conservative president of my lifetime.

Well, as Reagan said... "Facts are stubborn things."

If you consider massive deficit spending, medicare expansion, UN support, year after year of tax increases, a social security bailout and fix that taxed the rich, expanding the department of education, the size of overall government, support for the ERA, paying for another holiday off for government officials (MLK day).... conservative ideas, then we'll just disagree on the definition of what makes a conservative. These are the things he did while president. You may have been 'there', but you certainly weren't paying attention.

And if you think I have to google Reagan's record to make my point, you are a bigger fool than you sound. However, someone had to 'wiki' it, to make their point....

Reagan was the most conservative president since Silent Cal, this is a fact. But seriously, who else can you compare it to? FDR? Truman? Eisenhower? JFK? LBJ? Nixon? Ford? Carter? Bush? Clinton? Bush? hahaha. All were centrist to liberals.

I love to watch you drink koolaid. But seriously, you should lay off for a while and do your homework. You have no clue what you're talking about if you think Reagan was some hard right winger.