DrLove
Diamond Member
Oh my god, the irony.
You've never seen me attack Reagan, fuckwad. In fact, I have written many a post explaining to you tards how you have shit all over him.
You've never seem me attack Buckley, fuckwad. Same deal.
They still love to invoke Reagan even though he fails all ten points of the "GOP Purity Test".
Today's Republican Party wouldn't support Ronald Reagan as a small town mayor.
(1) Deficit spending soared during Reagan’s presidency. Strike one.
(2) As governor of California, Reagan oversaw the development of Medi-Cal, the nation’s largest Medicaid program – expanding it to cover long-term care and developed massive new managed care systems. Strike two.
(3) As governor of California, Reagan Reagan established the Air Resources Board to battle California’s smog problems and supported aggressive government intervention where the market had failed to protect the environment. As president, Reagan signed more wilderness protections laws – which restrict private-sector exploitation of natural resources – than any president in history. Strike three.
(4) Reagan was a former union president who campaigned against the Taft-Hartley Act and other restrictions of the right of unions to organize. Strike four.
(5) Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which granted amnesty to most undocumented workers who could prove they had been in the country continuously for the previous five years. After he finished his presidency, Reagan continues to speak out forcefully for immigration rights. Strike five.
(6) After the 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Beirut, Reagan was urged by some to surge more troops into the region. Instead, he ordered the Marines to begin withdrawal from Lebanon. Strike six.
(7) Reagan acknowledged that during his presidency the U.S. sold weapons to Iran. Strike seven.
(8) Reagan was the first president to invite an openly gay couple to spend the night in the White House and he famously argued that gays and lesbians should not be discriminated against in a 1978 television advertising campaign. Strike eight.
(9) Shortly after his inauguration as governor of California, Reagan signed into law the most liberal abortion statute of its day”. Strike nine.
(10) Here’s Reagan, in 1991, on gun control: “I support the Brady Bill, and I urge the Congress to enact it without further delay.” Strike ten.