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Sandpiper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 05:05 PM
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Reagan Trivia: Who coined the phrase "Voodoo Economics?"
Edited on Fri Jun-11-04 05:05 PM by Sandpiper
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 05:05 PM
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1. Bush I nt
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billbuckhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 05:06 PM
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2. Poppy Bush
One of the few true things he's ever said.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 05:08 PM
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3. Bush Pere about
Reaganomics. ;-)
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 05:08 PM
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4. As previously noted, his "beloved" VP
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Sandpiper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 05:11 PM
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5. Yes indeed, it was Poppy Bush
Once he became the drooler's running mate though, they suddenly became the greatest economic ideas he'd ever heard.
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 05:12 PM
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7. Truest Words Ever Spoken by a Bush
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 05:23 PM
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Poppy also changed his pro-choice views (literally) overnight...
once he was installed as Reagan's running mate
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 05:23 PM
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10. Poppy also changed his pro-choice views (literally) overnight...
once he was installed as Reagan's running mate
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rustydog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 05:12 PM
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6. George Herkimer Wussie Bush
or Poppy to bushless wonder.
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TexasSissy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 05:14 PM
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8. Poppy Bush.
I remember it. He used it when he ran for Prez.
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lanparty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 05:17 PM
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9. Poppy Bush is a smart guy ...

Reagan was a simpleton. Poppy Bush eventually realized that dumb romanticism sells better than reason. That's when they realized that GEORGE was the one. Not Jeb.

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LondonAmerican Donating Member (438 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 05:48 PM
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11. it was Bush I
Edited on Fri Jun-11-04 05:49 PM by LondonAmerican
who didn't think much of Reagan's Keynesianism (which, in fact, was what it was in practice).
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