Ronald Reagan

[Orrex]

Poll question: Ronald Reagan

[Demeter]

1. Scary As Hell

and I'm glad he's dead. The Music Man without a heart.

[AndrewP]

2. Too bad he didn't "pass on" in 1974 instead of 2004.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

26. I disagree. This country was ready for a right shift,

and if he was not around, someone else, potentially much worse, would have filled that spot.

We are now, finally, swinging away from neocon agenda, and may even fix problems of our own making. Like Every Single Decision Made By Bush.

[two gun sid]

3. Other.

Ronald Reagan will never be dead enough for me.

[cali]

4. Smarmy. Horribly, greasily smarmy.

[Motown_Johnny]

5. Criminal who negotiated with and illegally armed terrorists (Iranian kidnappers) and also armed

Bin Laden in Afghanistan


The source of all things that are worst in our world today


Yes, I voted "other"

[EFerrari]

11. Criminal should be a choice. I voted "other" as well. n/t

[ixion]

15. yep...

I voted other as well, for the reasons you list and more.

[BlueIdaho]

20. Amen!

RR was yet one more republican criminal occupying the White Hose. Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, W... the list just keeps getting longer.

[JuniperLea]

48. I voted other, and agree with you here, but will add another...

Traitor.

Had Clinton done any of these things, he would have been tried for treason. But Reagan somehow elevated these actions to "hero" and extended the hero moniker to his henchmen... Ollie North should have been jailed, but no, he's a hero... :puke:

[960]

6. Trite. Boring. Creepy.

[AlCzervik]

7. A great advocate for turning the mentally ill into the homeless and mentally ill.

[cynatnite]

8. Despite his record, he came off as very charismatic, IMO...

so did Ted Bundy, too.

[JuniperLea]

49. Assholes can be charismatic too...

Yep. One can be charismatic for the good, or the bad.

[laureloak]

9. bumbling.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. A small man who exploited the worst of the American character.

Greed, racism, nationalism, and the idea that ignorance is an indication of being a "good American".

[Idealism]

12. Simpleton who could speak well, but let the country become hijacked by

free market fundies and right-wing religious fanatics.

[WyLoochka]

17. I second this description n/t

[Demeter]

71. and By George Herbert Walker "Poppy" Bush

who deserves the majority of the blame for the Iran/Contra and related events.

[bunkerbuster1]

13. An AAR talk show host who's growing on me.

That's who you meant, right? Not the tragically misguided Commie-fighter/corporate whore?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

14. Other: "Douche Bag of Gigantic Proportions". nt

[RaleighNCDUer]

16. A half-way decent B movie matinee star with no moral backbone who,

when scared by the Hollywood Ten hearings, abandoned his Democratic New Deal roots and his first wife to fall in line with the rabid right - because as Hollywood saw it in the day, there was no such thing as being TOO patriotic and Hollywood witch hunts only went after the left.

A fucking coward.

[walkaway]

18. Alzheimer's patient n/t

[lutefisk]

19. Other: "incoherent cretin" -- Andre Faulds, British Labour Party . . . nt

[PDJane]

21. Absolute proof of the banality of evil.

A man who needed to be impeached.

[annabanana]

22. Frontman. . . . . n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. The great evil shitpot who handed America over to the fascist Christian right and corporate pigs

but not before trashing the economy, destroying the infrastructure, and dumbing America down about 30 notches.

[Rebel Scum]

27. Exactly...

Which is why I voted "other"

As far as I'm concerned we can trace all the problems we are facing today to him. And it makes me sick to see all the revisionist storytelling of "St. Ronnie."

[La Lioness Priyanka]

33. and also treating aids as a cure not a disease. nt

[guitar man]

24. other

Anti-worker pukebag slimeball POS. :grr:

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

25. Like most Republican presidents, he should've died in jail. (nt)

[madrchsod]

28. the ultimate opportunist...

since his days in dixon il to the white house he always used people to further his ambitions.
i suppose he decided he had to be better than his drunken father and conveniently used his mothers church to send him to college.

[8 track mind]

29. Poser. F-ing rotter.

[hunter]

30. Favorite play toy of Satan's house pets.

Fetch, Rex, Fetch!

[butterfly77]

31. Old man who thought he was living in the 1930's..

[fifthoffive]

32. Illusionist

Tricked a lot of people, who still can't admit they were fooled.

[Retrograde]

41. a competent actor

who understood the importance of a good script, a good director, good props and make-up people, and everything else that goes into creating a believable illusion. While he was never a big star, back in the studio days even the minor players needed some talent, and they were trained and coached to do what was expected. I don't think he was a dunce: I think he was a craftsman who perfected making whatever he said and did appear true, whether he believed it or not.

I hope I don't come across as defending him: I think he was one of the worst things that has happened to this country. If it weren't for Reagan, we wouldn't have had George W. Bush and that's condemnation enough.

[11 Bravo]

34. Clark Clifford nailed it: An amiable dunce.

[anonymous171]

35. Class Warrior. nt

[JitterbugPerfume]

36. uber-capitalist

He is why the South Americans hate us, or at least a good part of it for imposing Friedmans Chicago boys on them.

There is not enough disgust in the world to express how I feel about him.

[MiniMe]

37. Talked to people like they were 2 years old

[Rambis]

38. Union busting fascist bullyboy

fuck maggie thatcher too while we're at it!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

39. Heartless fraud who is responsible for the ongoing deaths of thousands of Americans because he

thought AIDS was a "gay" disease.

[anonymous171]

44. We might have been able to stop AIDS from becoming so prevalent

if he hadn't ignored it for so long. I blame Reagan for the AIDS Pandemic.

[harun]

40. Oppressor of the Middle Class.

[frebrd]

42. A third-rate actor. eom

[blindpig]

43. Highly effective TOOL of the ruling class, n/t

[Kahuna]

45. Like bush, he lied with the greatest of ease and the M$M never called him

on it. If you call lying with ease being a "great communicator," then he was that.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

46. Racist SC&MB@G & Unionbusting SH@THE@D

He was elbow deep in the same old race-baiting Southern strategy of Goldwater and Nixon. He was opposed to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. As president he tried to weaken the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He opposed a national holiday for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He tried to get rid of the federal ban on tax exemptions for private schools that practiced racial discrimination. In 1988, he vetoed a bill to expand the reach of federal civil rights legislation.

He vetoed the imposition of sanctions on the apartheid regime in South Africa, which Congress overrode.

Reagan’s use of code words like “states’ rights” in place of blatantly bigoted rhetoric was crucial to the success of the G.O.P.’s Southern strategy.

He can't be DEAD ENOUGH for me.

[rrneck]

47. The first

of a long and disastrous line of incompetent front men after the public relations debacle of Nixon.

[old mark]

50. A fairly skilled actor with a sense of humor. Would have made a

decent small town mayor.
Unfortunately, he was pushed higher....

He might have been a little delusional, but not nearly as crazy as Nixon - you young people really missed a treat if you missed Richard Milhaus Nixon...
Now THERE was a psycho...

mark

[mitchum]

51. Rotting scumbag

[d_b]

52. a soulless opportunist

same as Giuliani.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

55. Brain dead numbnuts that could read a line and hit his mark.

He was another empty shell, propped up by a cabal of men that later gave us Chucklenuts Bush and his gang. Reagan was nothing more than a front, a fairy tale, a myth, a soulless bastard created in the backrooms of the GOP headquarters who should have his name stricken from all monuments, airports and our collective memories. Reagan was the absolute perfect example of what the Republican party was and continues to be today.

Other than that, I guess he was okay.

[wizstars]

53. The Great Prevaricator...

...a title he now shares with W & Cheney


Piss on all of 'em.

Ronnie may be dead, but there isn't enough dirt in California to pile on his grave to hide the stench of his putrid corpse.

[G_j]

54. mean-spirited, union busting, liar

and that is the best I can say about him

[HughMoran]

56. douche-bag who's only difference compared to GWB was he was lucky

...otherwise he was a mindless ass hole.

[GoneOffShore]

57. Another vote for criminal here.

[graywarrior]

58. Bad actor.

Worse president.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

59. Spokesmodel/Handpuppet

Never really in charge. Told what to say, and did so.

See Secret Society Speech.

[Stinky The Clown]

60. Other: DEAD

[lpbk2713]

61. Other: B Grade actor ... D Grade President.

Nancy's astrologer did a better job. :eyes:

[upi402]

62. Other: Ted Bundy was likable n/t

[pleah]

63. Dangerous.

After he cut education almost all the small schools had to close and consolidate with other schools, then came the mega schools then school shootings. I had never heard of that kind of violence in a school before Raygun.

He also, was a grave threat to unions. I could go on, but, others are better at it.

[BuyingThyme]

64. Nazi.

[TexasObserver]

65. a well intentioned, reasonably likeable, but dangerous and ill informed man

His image of US history was a composite of John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart movies.

[Imagevision]

66. Reagan was nothing more then an actor, GOP had their man!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

67. Gave me the creeps and I would physically have stomach pain if I had to listen to him.

[Critters2]

68. Father of a fine progressive talk radio personality. nt

[KamaAina]

69. Insane Anglo Warlord

that's an anagram of "Ronald Wilson Reagan".

[New Dawn]

70. Other: fascist war criminal.

Nicaragua, El Salvador, Grenada, Afghanistan.