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2016 Postmortem

MADem

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2. He believed in social programs, the safety net, and "a rising tide lifts all boats."

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Nov 5, 2013, 08:48 AM

Nov 2013

He was also a strong advocate for both public service and a healthy, prepared and professional military.

He was never a conservative. That's just silliness.

We can cherry-pick Reagan's comments all day (particularly vis a vis social security and medicare) and fashion him as a liberal, if we'd like. That might make a few heads explode.

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Stop calling JFK conservative: The right’s favorite new lie is filled with historical flaws [View all] DonViejo Nov 2013 OP

Oh good Lord shenmue Nov 2013 #1

He believed in social programs, the safety net, and "a rising tide lifts all boats." MADem Nov 2013 #2

It's kind of telling that they want to own JFK, not Raygun now. bemildred Nov 2013 #3

conservative? yeah, rrright RussBLib Nov 2013 #4

And more so why their spinmasters worked overtime Iceberg Louie Nov 2013 #5