Let's NOT carve reagan's face onto mt. rushmore, shall we?

[mopaul]

let's not name airports, bathrooms or schools after his disgracefullness. let's not let the rightwing reagan cultists drown us in tales of reagan's glory or magnificent accomplishments, let's remind the world that reagan was not admirable or heroic or laudible for anything other than being great at reading lines and stirring up shit. the whole nation turned hard right when he stepped in, and it hasn't let up yet. fuck all that noise.

[daveskilt]

1. I only wish we could have old raygun back again

let's see ordinary infuriating repulican with a dash of crazy or despotic chimp?

bush makes even me have warm fuzzies about the days of reagan when at least we could be sure that if enough people voted against him he would be out.

[ima_sinnic]

2. it is criminal the way Iran-Contra was allowed to fade away

... the reptiles do their hideous deeds with impunity and are then glorified.

[Deja Q]

6. And the S&L scandal and his massive spending and his

calling ketchup a vegetable and his pig-headed attitude toward a new disease, solely because it affected a group of people he hated (the joke's on you raygun, your hetero buddies got AIDS too.)

In 1964, he openly spoke against the civil rights movement but that's beyond the scope of Reagan as president, so I can't use that one. x(

That fucker shouldn't be celebrated at all. He's a doddering old braindead fogie (who'd been that way long before he took presidency, no less) at best and an outright criminal at worst.

[indigobusiness]

29. So true... The worship of Monsters is the hidden church

of America.

[trotsky]

3. Thankfully, Rushmore is not an option.

First, there is no more stable rock on which to carve another face.

And second, any work on the mountain would risk the existing faces, which need massive stabilization right now just to hold them up.

The rest of what you said, A-FUCKING-MEN.

[I thought so.]

7. Thanks for your input.

I feel better for it.

[Deja Q]

13. I wonder if they'll find another mountain to make a molehill out of...

And at what cost to the taxpayer... it seems apropos that we're in the massive debt Reagan created and we spend several hundred million more just to carve his stone-like face into a stone. :eyes:

At least the dime deal didn't go through.

[mopaul]

16. right in the middle of indian country, four huge white man's faces

and when ronnie croaks, they'll try to stick his mug up there too.
manifest destiniy's own monument.

[WolverineDG]

20. never thought i'd say

"thank you, nancy reagan." but she did speak out against changing the dime from fdr to ronnie, so, "thanks, nancy."

dg

[TexasProgresive]

28. I heard a rumor that

Lakota boys would climb up Rushmore and piss down Teddy's nose as a political statement and a rite of passage. My son says that he doesn't think they can do it anymore because the security is so high.

[prodigal_green]

21. are there any sacred Indian sites left

to desecrate?

[Don_G]

4. I'm Afraid It's Gonna Happen

And I wouldn't be surprised one bit if even a few churches are named St Ronnie.

[I thought so.]

5. Who would want that?

The sculptor that did Mt.Rushmore had no plans for anyone else. Besides dynamite can't do the wrinkles. Its just like that.
Relax, my friend.

[NewEmanuelGoldstein]

8. No

We should blast off the faces of Lincoln and Jefferson and Replace then with Ronnie and the Chimp he did the Bonzo movies with.

He was a bad actor who parlayed that into being elected President. If that doesn't deserve enshrinement on Rushmore then something is wrong with America. Inteptitude(only by Repubs) should be rewarded.

I can't wait till he does go so we can hear the 30 days of crying about it from the righties.

[spanone]

9. Reagan got the best deal...he forgot he was president.

We're left to remember.

[lastknowngood]

10. Once that old draft dodging bastard dies the damn rethugs

will name everything in this country Raygun, they may even change the name of the country to the Republican of Raygun.

[mopaul]

12. let's not forget his date rape scandal & womanizing

Clinton was often accused of these things, but, reagan actually did have a checkered past. as did nancy, the former first lady. she was known as the biggest whore in hollywood, but she demands respect now.

[Vickers]

14. In Florida, they named the turnpike after him...it's perfect!

See, I paid for the road once already, and now I get to pay for it ALL OVER AGAIN, every time I drive on it!

It makes perfect sense when seen in the context of his economic policies.

[olddem43]

25. Another Highway named after him

In Hamilton County, Ohio (Cincinnati) the Repug controlled county commission named the Cross-County Highway after him. This was a roadway that had been under design and construction for at least 40 years and always called "the Cross County Highway". Needless to say, Reagan had no connection to the area.

[DAGDA56]

26. Also note...on the Fla Turnpike...

...you have to keep to the right, while driving through alot of wasteland, and are forced to pay when you least expect it.

[NewEmanuelGoldstein]

15. or

The Raygun Reich

[Penndems]

19. Welcome to DU, New Emanuel Goldstein!

:hi:

n/t

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

11. let's not put his face on a dime either

I've heard that one and that is outrageous

[olddem43]

27. They won't give up on that one.

Because it also gets rid of FDR, who they have always hated because "he started WWII"

[Lefty48197]

30. Actually the Republicans hate FDR because he did so many things to help

working American families. Nothing pisses off the right wingers more than people getting help who need it.

[Bronco69]

17. Everytime I hear the fundies glorifying him I want to puke!

I remember the Reagan years very well. I got my first apartment just after he was elected. Not long after that I lost my job and was forced to move back home with my parents. McJobs were the only kind available, much like today, and things didn't improve a whole lot until President Clinton was elected in '92. After Clinton was elected I made a lot more money and was even able to back to school. I sure wish someone would tell me exactly what it was that made Red Ink Ronnie so great.

[Penndems]

18. He was no supporter of unions, either

Remember what happened with the air traffic controllers?

Reagan was also responsible for the big push behind contracting out Federal jobs. During the 1980 campaign, he painted Federal employees as a bunch of lazy, overpaid, money-grubbing, goldbricking slackers.

We STILL hate him for that.

[datasuspect]

22. i think they are funny

in their rapturous praise of st. raygun.

how was he the "greatest president since lincoln?"

i like the way one freeper quoted someone that said "reagan made us feel safer."

funny, i was a kid/teenager through those years, but i could still suss that their was plenty of anxiety over the prospect of imminent global thermonuclear war . . .

weird

[prodigal_green]

23. More Federal buildings and projects have been named after him

than any other president. Heard this on the O'Franken Factor the other day.

http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/ed_events/named.htm
edited to add link.

[Vitruvius]

24. The NYC dump is known locally as "Mount Trashmore" and

would be a good place for Reagan's face -- also Bu$h I and Bu$h II.

[Lefty48197]

31. Let's carve Reagans face into the Stone Mountain memorial

it's ties to the KKK and the leaders of the confederacy makes it seem like a good place to honor Reagan.

[seabeyond]

32. this is the scary, they want reagan on mt rushmore

i hear you mopaul

[TN al]

33. I only hope that the obituaries...

...include ketchup as a vegetable and schizophrenia as a lifestyle choice. the things in this country that suck, suck because of him.

[Bake]

34. The Godfather of Hate Radio, if I recall correctly.

Wasn't it Raygun who did away with the Fairness Doctrine that led directly to the rise of Limpnuts and Hate Radio?

Bake