Pic Of The Moment: At Wednesday's GOP Debate, Candidates Will Battle To Claim The Mantle Of Reagan

[EarlG]

Republicans search for next Reagan, and 2016 hopefuls eagerly audition

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[d_legendary1]

1. I actually heard Trump in my head saying that!

Time to smoke out and calm myself down!

[NewJeffCT]

2. Didn't he sign gun control legislation

as governor of California, too?

[4lbs]

13. You are correct, Sir. The Mulford Act of 1967

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act

The Mulford Act was a 1967 California bill which repealed a law allowing public carrying of loaded firearms. Named after Republican assemblyman Don Mulford, the bill garnered national attention after the Black Panthers marched bearing arms upon the California State Capitol to protest the bill.[1][2] The bill was signed by Republican California Governor Ronald Reagan and became California penal code 12031 and 171(c)

[NewJeffCT]

14. that would be a quick way to get a lot of politicians to fold on gun control

have a group of black men marching through the streets "open carrying" their weapons.

[napi21]

3. AND there's always the large number of people who now know

it's REGANOMICS that has ruined our Country. HE destroyed the unions, stopped enforcing the anit-trust laws, instituted the "trickle down" economics, etc, etc.

[appalachiablue]

5. THIS. It will take decades to reverse the damage of Dutch, aka the Gipper.

[napi21]

16. Yes! And we need to start reversing it now to get the

"decades" to even begin!

[appalachiablue]

17. Yep, 40 years of destruction to start correcting. A uuge challege but one we must address

now. What a wreck that old man, his followers and successors like Bush (ugh!) have made of this country. In 1980 I was in DC when Raygun was elected and inaugurated that next January. Young, busy and working then I was in shock and disbelief, blind sided.

That's why we cannot disregard Trumpf as a mere clown who will fade. He's very dangerous like others and with this county so declined and unstable now it could happen again.

In the fight forward and to preserve our democracy we must remain determined, strong and courageous, like Bernie!

Go Bernie Go!

[progressoid]

4. Why Ronald Reagan should be seen as a complete failure...

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/01/ronald-reagan-policy-political-failure

[yuiyoshida]

6. Ronald Reagan may have been a God for Republicans

But he is too far to the left, and everyone will not acknowledge that, in the Party, its like having that Beloved Crazy Uncle who the family secretly kept hidden in a room in the basement
that was only let out for laughs and the occasional family Reunions.

[Major Hogwash]

23. He ran up deficits so fast that most Democrats were appalled by his level of hypocrisy.

After campaigning in 1980 against President Carter for having a federal budget of $1 trillion dollars, the first time we ever spent that much money, Reagan proved to be the biggest hypocrite the GOP had ever had (up to that time).

Soon after he was in the White House, Reagan wrote a bigger budget than Carter's budget, and in the process, created larger deficits, and then in every succeeding year, Reagan continued to set new, bigger records for deficits.

George H.W. Bush publicly criticized Reagan for that, and he promised to do a better job than Saint Ronny.
Yet, instead of bringing deficits down, he broke Reagan's last record deficit with his very first budget!
Then in every succeeding year, Bush got budgets that set even bigger record deficits.

We had 12 straight years of record deficits, and the GOP voters in this country didn't think it was any big whoop until the recession of 1991.
And then James Carville coined his famous campaign meme of 1992, "It's the economy, stupid."

[rladdi]

7. Can anyone name a Republican who is a Reaganite? Anyone GOP member who

really stands behind what Reagan did. I think not.

[turbinetree]

8. And his cronies (Ronnie ) while he was running......................

for the presidency as a civilian was negotiating with Iranians in no official capacity, during the Iran hostage crisis---------------just like the 47 republican senators------------most people call that treason----------------I sure do.
So, Trumpster, and the republican clown car, follow in his foot steps----------------go right ahead


and will


Oh, by the way:


Honk----------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[HassleCat]

9. Yet another hurdle

I don't think any of them have the complete contempt for the constitution shown by Reagan. Of sure, they can propose deporting gays to their own island, and various other crazy shit, but can they actually do something like Iran-Contra? That's a landmark achievement in the realm of constitutional disrespect. Lincoln suspended habeus corpus, and Roosevelt approved internment of Japanese-Americans, but those things are peanuts compared to what Reagan did. He set up a shadow government, a secret organization intended to steal money from the real government and use it for illegal projects such as overthrowing other governments. A government of the spies, by the spies, and for the spies. We have had 43 other presidents, and nothing any of them have done compares to the treason committed by Reagan. Hell, you can add up all of their sins put together, and they pale in comparison. Nope. None of these pretenders can claim the mantle of Ronald Reagan, our biggest traitor.

[DoBotherMe]

19. Yes

[lunatica]

10. Well for once the Donald tells the truth.

[captainarizona]

11. reagan did sign californias first major gun control law

call him ronnie gun control reagan!

[red dog 1]

12. One of Reagan's first acts as Gov.of California was to close state mental hospitals

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with the idea being that the local communities would be able to handle the mental patients..

Many of these same people are still wandering around California cities, talking to themselves, pushing shopping carts, sleeping in doorways etc.

Reagan did the same thing when he became president.
.He closed down federal mental hospitals;
and cut the budget for mental health services & outreach programs for veterans and the poor.


K&R, thanks for posting this. EarlG

[appalachiablue]

18. +1. You should have seen DC, poor bag people wandering around Georgetown, the

downtown cultural sites, peeing in fountains and sleeping on heat grates or wherever at night. Not their fault, there was no community system put in place to help them which was Raygun's rationale for closing the many state institutions which had issues as you say. How tragic and barbaric for the wealthiest country on earth, like our many unemployed, homeless and incarcerated people now. 40 years of selfish, greedy conservative rule! Enough is enough!

[Jester Messiah]

15. Dumbasses.

Competing to claim the mantle of King Dumbass from the misremembered legacy of a demented fool.

[niyad]

21. thank goodness we didn't discontinue dumbass-shaming!

[niyad]

20. are they going to claim his alzheimer's as well?

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

22. Being Republican means never letting the facts

get in the way of a BS story.

[TNNurse]

24. I am not a fan of hackers

But if someone could hack into CNN and make these statements in a crawl at the bottom of the screen during the debate, it would be pretty cool.

[AlbertCat]

25. Just saw an ad on the boob tube...

...that was essentially THIS "pic of the moment"! In Reagan's own voice!

[AtheistCrusader]

26. He's the scary part.

When you point out the realities of their man-god mythological Reagan, they'll throw him under the bus so fast, that if it even caused them to blink, you'd miss it.