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DevonRex

(22,541 posts)
50. Reagan's missteps almost got us wiped off the face of the earth.
Sat Sep 7, 2013, 05:24 PM
Sep 2013

Literally. More than once. I am not kidding. If people had known they would have been terrified. It's still scary if you served under him in MI.

As it is, his policies have led to the slow, agonizing death of a lot of things we hold dear.

Taft, you fat fuck! NuclearDem Sep 2013 #1
LOL! - nt HardTimes99 Sep 2013 #17
Other mick063 Sep 2013 #2
Nice one but I was referring to gopiscrap Sep 2013 #3
He is the fore father of the Tea Party mick063 Sep 2013 #7
Zing! OK, Davis was worse (just barely) than Reagan - nt HardTimes99 Sep 2013 #18
Not even a debate . Shrub , Squint , DumbYa hands down . orpupilofnature57 Sep 2013 #4
Reagan started it all. Blue_In_AK Sep 2013 #5
I did too gopiscrap Sep 2013 #9
^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^ Coyotl Sep 2013 #28
YUp I couldn't agree more! gopiscrap Sep 2013 #33
When "The Enterprise" gets their actor elected! Coyotl Sep 2013 #39
No shit it's always about fucking money gopiscrap Sep 2013 #40
Yeah, Reagan started us on our way to Third World status. Arugula Latte Sep 2013 #44
Buchanan's accommodation of the slave owners gave us that horrible war Kolesar Sep 2013 #6
I can't speak for "ever," but for my lifetime, LWolf Sep 2013 #8
W was the most inept but St. Ronnie did the most far reaching damage to the US. eom chieftain Sep 2013 #10
^^this^^ Freddie Sep 2013 #53
Close call. Went with Shrub. blkmusclmachine Sep 2013 #11
I went with Reagan (worst recession since the Great HardTimes99 Sep 2013 #14
in terms of pushing our country away from progress and toward reaction - it's Reagan hands down Douglas Carpenter Sep 2013 #12
Lots of people sang songs about Reagan jmowreader Sep 2013 #45
yup. Reagan for the shit he put in motion to follow his term. W for the short term crap in office. Gidney N Cloyd Sep 2013 #62
James Buchanan Spider Jerusalem Sep 2013 #13
I had Buchanan coming in fifth worst for the reasons you enumerate. N.B. Lincoln initially also HardTimes99 Sep 2013 #15
"Made the Civil War inevitable" = worst Spider Jerusalem Sep 2013 #19
I agree. surrealAmerican Sep 2013 #29
Reagan by a whisker over Bush, Jr. Iran-Contra made Abu Ghraib HardTimes99 Sep 2013 #16
I voted for Bush the lesser War Horse Sep 2013 #20
James Buchanan by a mile Hippo_Tron Sep 2013 #21
What were those things that he could have done? treestar Sep 2013 #24
Look at what Andrew Jackson did with South Carolina in the 1830's... Hippo_Tron Sep 2013 #27
thank you treestar Sep 2013 #47
Dinner with your alter ego? n/t whatchamacallit Sep 2013 #22
The Shrub treestar Sep 2013 #23
Reagan truly started the USA down the road of complete destruction. BlueJazz Sep 2013 #25
Bingo. That's exactly why I voted for him. The destruction he wrought cannot be overstated. MotherPetrie Sep 2013 #26
???!! Precisely Sep 2013 #37
In the poll above............................. MotherPetrie Sep 2013 #43
oh! Precisely Sep 2013 #58
Junior (W), head and shoulders above the rest rock Sep 2013 #30
Bush/Cheny were in a class by themselves and are America's answer to Caligula, Nero or Commodus coldmountain Sep 2013 #31
IIRC Polk was total garbage LostOne4Ever Sep 2013 #32
Good point I gorgot about him gopiscrap Sep 2013 #36
Shrub, Raygun a close 2nd. n/t upi402 Sep 2013 #34
Dick Precisely Sep 2013 #35
Really hard to choose between Bush Jr. and Reagan. Going to have to think about that some. stevenleser Sep 2013 #38
I agree. The damage from both of them will continue for generations to come. mnhtnbb Sep 2013 #52
Bush Sr. because he failed to properly react to the collapse of the Soviet Union FarCenter Sep 2013 #41
James Buchanan. hrmjustin Sep 2013 #42
James Buchanan wins this one hands down. malthaussen Sep 2013 #46
Shit-for-Brains was the worst in modern times by a wide margin. lpbk2713 Sep 2013 #48
put me down for Buchanan as well. Warren DeMontague Sep 2013 #49
Reagan's missteps almost got us wiped off the face of the earth. DevonRex Sep 2013 #50
Reagan. Turbineguy Sep 2013 #51
Bush the Unready and Reagan were relative pikers. Benton D Struckcheon Sep 2013 #54
Without Reagan, Bush II would not have been possible(nt) SteveG Sep 2013 #55
Truman, Buchanan, Polk Democracyinkind Sep 2013 #56
C-SPAN's surveys of historians picked Buchanan, and I concur. Jim Lane Sep 2013 #57
Woodrow Wilson, by a TKO over Shrub, Buchanan, and Hoover First Speaker Sep 2013 #59
I'd go with Andrew Johnson WatermelonRat Sep 2013 #60
So many to chose from, but I usually go with Wilson. He was an idiot way out of his depth Egalitarian Thug Sep 2013 #61
Grant and Harding were ranked as the two failures in the 1962 Schlessinger historian poll Midwestern Democrat Sep 2013 #63
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