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Gingrich does not represent the TEA Party's values.
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LOL here we go again. Being a larger-than-life figure who was nine-tenths illusion in BOTH of his careers -- movies and politics -- Ronald Reagan naturally spawns his own mythos. The amazing thing is that some people still believe it.
Reagan brought down the Soviet Union? Yeah, and the rooster crows in the sunrise, too.
We can go into the complicated reasons why the Soviet Union fell another time. Suffice it to say for the moment that there is no such thing as a country that controls its own currency going "bankrupt," that Soviet military spending did not change in response to Reagan's military buildup, was always higher than sustainable, and actually FELL under Gorbachev; that Gorbachev's political reforms had the unintended consequences of bringing to light many flaws in the system that had been concealed while the government held tight control over the media; that the drop in oil prices in the mid 1980s deprived the USSR, a net oil exporter, of needed hard-currency revenues; and that the country had been running on fumes ever since 1980 anyway.
What's more interesting in the context of this thread is that Republicans seem to have no current political leaders to rally around, and are reduced to invoking the name of a dead one.
Reagan brought down the Soviet Union? Yeah, and the rooster crows in the sunrise, too.
Sunrise would be morning a rooster is an alarm clock for the farm. I should know since well having chickens was a way of farm life for me and my family. So yes the rooster does crow in the morning.
Just like Reagan beat the communist socialist economy.
Any thinking conservative should be able to read this writing on the wall and know what to do.
....another lynch-mob!!!!
So you want to play with words? Here's what you said.Sunrise would be morning a rooster is an alarm clock for the farm. I should know since well having chickens was a way of farm life for me and my family. So yes the rooster does crow in the morning.
Does it cause the sunrise? No.
Just like Reagan beat the communist socialist economy.
Yes, EXACTLY like: he crowed over it.
Reagan brought down the Soviet Union? Yeah, and the rooster crows in the sunrise, too.
And bullshit to you the communist socialism fed economy could not keep up with the capitalist system of the U.S.
Reagan didn't invent capitalism. He spent more on the military. Those are two different things.
Who said Reagan did? I said he used it to defeat the communist socialism fed economy using the capitalist system of the U.S. USING IS NOT INVENTING OR DID YOU INVENT YOUR CAR SINCE YOU USE IT?
Reagan didn't invent capitalism. He spent more on the military. Those are two different things.
Who said Reagan did? I said he used it to defeat the communist socialism fed economy using the capitalist system of the U.S. USING IS NOT INVENTING OR DID YOU INVENT YOUR CAR SINCE YOU USE IT?
You are changing your argument. First you said that Reagan defeated communism by building up the military. Then you said that Reagan defeated communism by using the capitalistic system. Then I butted in, to tell you that those are two different arguments.
If your argument is that Western capitalism eventually outstripped Soviet communism, then I don't know how you can single-handily give Reagan sole credit for defeating communism, since our capitalistic system was in place long before Reagan.
No I am not you did when you saidYou are changing your argument.
Reagan didn't invent capitalism.