Just what the fuck is a "Reagan Democrat"?????

[CatWoman]

school me!!

[NMDemDist2]

1. a blue collar working guy who was a Dem until Rayguns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_Democrat

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Traditional Democrats Who Voted For Reagan Over Carter

Mostly, as Mrs. Clinton would say, "hard working whites".

[Canuckistanian]

9. Now, now

We're all united here.



Save your barbs for McSame.

[politicallore]

26. Hahaha,.... I love... you???

[ingac70]

3. Dixiecrats.

[mmonk]

4. A Republican

[Mojambo]

5. A Democrat dumb enough to fall for supply side economics.

Sadly, there's a bunch of em. Politicians and voters.

[SmileyRose]

6. A republican?

Reagan stood for

Every poor man for himself - every rich man with government in his right pocket.
Making nice with evil thugs and dictators.
concentrating wealth at the top
controlling what consenting adults do in their own bedrooms
forcing other people's kids to pray
screwing over the worlds most vulnerable people for a quick buck
destroying emerging democracies around the world



Sounds Republican to me...........

[marmar]

7. A media term that grates on my nerves.....

..... like "security moms."

[Cosmocat]

29. BINGO - one of a hundred ways the media sticks ...

a thumb into the democrats eye ...

And, far too many democrats and democratic surrogates

MINDLESSLY FREAKIN PARROT IT !!!

[OffWithTheirHeads]

40. Double BINGO

NT

[BlueJac]

8. A fucking Republican.....

just word smithing a phrase of ignorance.

[Breeze54]

10. A turncoat mutha focker Repuke!!!

:grr:

[bluestateguy]

11. A Democrat who hasn't actually voted for a Democrat since 1964

Or a lazy person who has been too lazy to go down to the County Courthouse and charge his registration.

[B.S. Lewis]

12. A swing voter

Who apparently played "pin the tail on the party checkbox" when originally they decided what to register as.

[mmonk]

13. Or better yet, Congress

[Omaha Steve]

14. Hundreds of thousands that crossed party line in primaries starting in 76

Truth be told, I volunteered to help Raygun as he ran against Ford in 76. I was young and dumb. I knew Ron had been the SAG President and figured he would be kind to labor. There were other reasons. Charisma. Talked pro on many Dem issues. Etc... Yes I was very young & stupid.

[CatWoman]

15. it's not a crime to be young and stupid

I've been there, too :)

[Breeze54]

17. .............

:cry:


:hug:

[Zhade]

19. You probably didn't know at the time that he ratted people out to McCarthy...

...just one of his many despicable acts on this planet.

Shame he died free, instead of in prison where he belonged.

[bbinacan]

25. Didn't Reagan get some

key Union endorsements?

[billyoc]

16. A union-busting, racist, xenophobic, misogynistic homophobe.

IOW, a Republican. :hi:

[devilgrrl]

33. Yep.

:thumbsup:

[Zhade]

18. A conservative Dem ignorant of his crimes.

NT!

[Drifter]

20. I'm a Reagan Democrat ...

If it wasn't for Reagan, I wouldn't be a Democrat.

Cheers
Drifter

[Breeze54]

21. A lot of the people we're trying to vote out of office!! DLC & BlueDogs!!

:grr:

[Dr.Phool]

22. A very confused asshole.

[NC_Nurse]

23. A dumbass.

[stevedeshazer]

24. A right-wing fantasy

:shrug:

[dysfunctional press]

27. a Moran. with a capital M.

[hendo]

28. With as many votes as he got

apparently there were a lot of them.

[malaise]

30. I've been asking that for years

and I've never received a reasonable answer.

[MicaelS]

39. Well I was there and this is pretty accurate

He concluded that "Reagan Democrats" no longer saw Democrats as champions of their working class aspirations, but instead saw them as working primarily for the benefit of others: the very poor, the unemployed, African Americans, and other political pressure groups.

I was in a UNION during this time, I knew plenty of union members who voted for Reagan twice. The general attitude was angrily expressed as

"The goddamn motherfuckin' Democrats don't give a damn about us anymore" (blue-collar white men), "so fuck 'em, I'm voting for Reagan, see how they like that!"

[populistdriven]

31. i found a pic of one

[rucky]

32. They claim to be fisacally conservative and socially liberal...

but support budget deficits and discrimination against the homeless and gays

[spanone]

34. a democrat who's name just happens to be reagan...otherwise it's a republican

[DailyGrind51]

35. Charlton Heston was the most famous example.

[CatWoman]

36. Heston was a Democrat???

:wow:

[MicaelS]

44. Yes he was...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleton_Heston

In the 1950s and 1960s he was one of a handful of Hollywood actors to speak openly against racism and was an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. Initially a liberal Democrat, he later supported conservative politics ...

Heston campaigned for Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson in 1956 and John F. Kennedy in 1960.Reportedly when an Oklahoma movie theater premiering his movie El Cid was segregated, he joined a picket line outside in 1961. Heston makes no reference to this in his autobiography, but describes traveling to Oklahoma City to picket segregated restaurants, much to the chagrin of Allied Artists, the producers of El Cid.<18> During the civil rights march held in Washington, D.C. in 1963, he accompanied Martin Luther King Jr. In later speeches, Heston said he helped the civil rights cause, "long before Hollywood found it fashionable."

Following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, Heston and actors Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas and James Stewart issued a statement calling for support of President Johnson's Gun Control Act of 1968. He opposed the Vietnam War and in 1969 was approached by the Democratic party to run for the U.S. Senate. He agonized over the decision and ultimately determined he could never give up acting.

Heston reportedly said the excesses of the 1960s and early 70s were what turned him right.

[Dukkha]

37. "Welllllllll, I don't know"

*head convulsing*

[LostInAnomie]

38. A dumb shit led astray by bullshit "cultural issues"...

... and a "tough guy, daddy figure" image.

[TexasObserver]

41. an Independent who couldn't stand Jimmy Carter or Walter Mondale

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

42. It's just like the "Chupacabras". It's made up bullshit. n/t

[Rex]

43. Like a Dixiecrat, but a lot dumber.

See the 80s for further references.

[Kip Humphrey]

45. Someone with a good heart and an empty head for whom reality sucks

[mitchum]

46. A racist

[JimmyJubes]

47. I think

It's someone who is an old south democrat that doesn't want to change their affiliation mostly.
Also Europeans who were picked on because they were not anglo saxon so they identified with the party of the people but now they have no compassion for those under them.

[McCamy Taylor]

48. A Bill Clinton Democrat.

Name brand loyalty is one of their strengths/weaknesses.