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progressoid

(49,991 posts) Mon Feb 6, 2012, 09:44 AM Feb 2012

Have you seen this dreck?

Just saw it this morning. What an awful way to start the day.

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Have you seen this dreck? (Original Post) progressoid Feb 2012 OP

I've never quite understood this "continued aging" past death.... hlthe2b Feb 2012 #1

Tell a repuke Ronnie raised taxes... trumad Feb 2012 #2

I just don't understand the Reagan worship. RevStPatrick Feb 2012 #3

The man was an actor and the Presidency was the role of his lifetime and he played it to the hilt. Arkansas Granny Feb 2012 #5

It would have been a better world had William Shatner gone into politics... hunter Feb 2012 #11

I thought he was dead. Die already, you fucker. NYC_SKP Feb 2012 #4

He's 101! progressoid Feb 2012 #6

It's a gimmick Icicle Feb 2012 #7

This just in: ray-gun is still dead. nt Javaman Feb 2012 #8

I wish someone would tell those RW douches that. n/t progressoid Feb 2012 #9

Reagan's election in 1980 was THE turning point in US History.... Bigmack Feb 2012 #10

Telling that they don't remember ... GeorgeGist Feb 2012 #12

hlthe2b

(102,292 posts)

1. I've never quite understood this "continued aging" past death....

Reply to progressoid (Original post)

Mon Feb 6, 2012, 09:46 AM

Feb 2012

How can a dead person be 101 unless you get into some pretty grisly depictors of the buried remains.

trumad

(41,692 posts)

2. Tell a repuke Ronnie raised taxes...

Reply to progressoid (Original post)

Mon Feb 6, 2012, 09:47 AM

Feb 2012

and they throw a conniption fit.

RevStPatrick

(2,208 posts)

3. I just don't understand the Reagan worship.

Reply to progressoid (Original post)

Mon Feb 6, 2012, 09:57 AM

Feb 2012

He may have been a nice, congenial type (in some people's minds), but what did he do to deserve to be treated as demi-god?

Actually, now that I think about it, the people who I have known who worship the guy are all, to a person, kind of shallow, a little dumb, not too bright and don't really have a clue as to how the world REALLY functions. Maybe I just answered my own question...

Arkansas Granny

(31,518 posts)

5. The man was an actor and the Presidency was the role of his lifetime and he played it to the hilt.

Reply to RevStPatrick (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 6, 2012, 10:11 AM

Feb 2012

Some people were convinced by it.

hunter

(38,317 posts)

11. It would have been a better world had William Shatner gone into politics...

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Reply #5)

Mon Feb 6, 2012, 12:10 PM

Feb 2012

Gorbachev!!!! Tear down this wall!!!!!!!

And he could've been our first Canadian President!

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)

4. I thought he was dead. Die already, you fucker.

Reply to progressoid (Original post)

Mon Feb 6, 2012, 10:04 AM

Feb 2012

I know he's cold but damn if the RW doesn't keep pulling him out and propping him up.

Die you bastard, Die!

progressoid

(49,991 posts)

6. He's 101!

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #4)

Mon Feb 6, 2012, 10:13 AM

Feb 2012

Apparently he's a better President now than when he was alive.

Icicle

(121 posts)

7. It's a gimmick

Reply to progressoid (Original post)

Mon Feb 6, 2012, 10:13 AM

Feb 2012

They use Reagan as an example of recent Republican "success."
They certainly can't point to either one of the Bushes, or Nixon, so they revise history about Reagan, romanticising the period. As I recall, Newt wasn't nearly as cozy with Reagan as he'd like us all to believe today....