Why do so many people consider Ronald Reagan our country's greatest president?

Answer 1

Because he single handidly destroyed the Soviet empire without firing a single shot. And, he bucked the trend and made it popular to actually be proud of our country and all she stands for, unlike president Carter. We need him today to take care of those nasty islamic nazis.

Answer 2

The liberals can claim a lot of presidential heroes,
Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, Lincoln, T. Roosevelt, Wilson, F. Roosevelt, and Kennedy

But there really haven’t been any great conservative heroes… and so one had to be invented…


Reagan had no Great Crisis. The only thing I have ever heard put to him in the category of greatness was to say he won the cold war by out spending the Soviets. But this doesn’t hold up in the light of history.

Here’s why:

First, as a byproduct, the A-bombing of Japan was an unmistakable message to the soviets. In addition, Truman’s administration were the architects of the cold war (George Keenan) that every president afterwards followed. The soviets tried to counter our advancement with a space race which was ultimately won by Kennedy. Kennedy also forced the soviets into a public retreat during the Cuban missile crisis. Nixon took China away from the soviet sphere and Egypt dropped the soviets in the 1970’s leaving them without a dance partner in the middle east. Lech Walesa started up all those strikes in the 70’s leading up to Solidarity later on, but sympathy strikes occurred in much of eastern Europe at the time and even in the Ukraine. Then the soviets got embroiled in Afghanistan in the late 70’s.

The soviets were already a dead man walking long before Reagan became president. When he did become president the soviet leaders kept dying, one after another. There was no stability in the USSR until Reagan’s second term when Gorbechav came to power as a reformer.

As far as outspending the soviets, we out spend China, North Korea and Iran and none of them are capitulating. We outspent France and we couldn’t even get them to join the coalition. We actually outspend the entire world.


Greatness requires a lot more that being at the right place at the right time.

And true greatness requires more than just a political party wanting it to be so.

Answer 3

The previous generation considered Kennedy the greatest president and the one before that thought FDR was the best ever. Compared to their contemporaries these three were great presidents: FDR was better than the three presidents that came before him. Reagan was better than Nixon, Ford and Carter. Both were a breath of fresh air after troubled times.

The exception to me is Kennedy. Kennedy wasn't a good president although to be fair he didn't get to live out his first term much less progress to a second one. He had the advantage of being glamorous and he ended up as a martyr, though, and to alot of people that pushed him into the realm of the great ones.

Answer 4

Reagan was great for a lot of reasons, most notably was his optimism in America, He believed in smaller government. and believed that A strong offense was the best defense.

When it come to the Cold war Reagan's view was " We win, They loose"

Because of that the liberals thought he would start a world war.

Reagan believed in the American people and he new that they were the real reason America was great, not the Government

In fact in one of his speeches he said "some people think government is the answer to everything, It's not Government is the problem"

He believed if you gave people back their money they would invest more in America and they did and America grew strong. our Economy and our Military.

He was also a strait shooter. he told it as he seen it. people like that. weather they agree with you or not they want to know you are a person of your word.

People also felt proud to be Americans again. And felt safe, I remember thinking if I were caught in a foreign country Reagan would send in the marines for me. He made you feel you were as important as he was. He was very humble.

He was always giving Americans credit for all his success as president.

And he had as much Charisma as Bill Clinton,

He was all his life a conservative, who loved America, and when the Democratic Party started to become a liberal institution he felt his Party left him.

He started the Conservative movement and became a Republican.

{Bill Clinton had his good points he tried to bring the Democrats back toward the middle, but he was not successful.
But he worked with the Republican congress and accomplished alot of things with Newt.
His biggest downfall was lying under oath, no conservative really cared that he was sleeping with Monica.
what was bad was disrespecting the courts. not only that but also for getting others to also lie under oath.
Some other things that people who have read about the impeachment found he used his power abusively. I think he was a good president who just was a little power hungry. }

Reagan had his downfalls too, with the Iran contra deal.

But all in all, " not bad, not bad at all"

To learn more start by visiting Micheal Reagan's page on his father

he was very much loved by America by the time he was up for re-election, he won 49 of the 50 states more than any other president. he chose not to campaign in his challengers home state out of respect. His challenger won that state.

Answer 5

It is thought that he contributed much to the fall of the Soviet Union, although I tend to think those who contributed more to that fall were the presidents in power during the Korean and VietNam wars. I do think he was an okay leader, a hell of a lot better than the pile of garbage we have posing as president currently. But then again I could say the same about a retarded rock.

Answer 6

Because he was....at least of the 20th century. He defeated our greatest enemy (the Soviet Union) without firing a shot. He was so good, in fact, that he was able to use the same catch phrase for both campaigns. 'Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?' People in 1980 said 'no' and in 1984, they said 'yes.' By the way, the '84 election was one of the biggest landslides in history.

Yeah....Reagan was good. Stop being jealous you liberal wiener.

Answer 7

Because Americans are caught up in Hollywood worship and saw a movie star and not the policies and how they would affect the country. More focus was put into "name brand" politics and programs like Star Wars than in Trickle down economics.

Americans are blinded by the love of television.

Answer 8

when reagan was first elected, the u.s. and russia were in a cold war. most americans were terrified of nuclear attack, much like the feeling we had right after 9/11. reagan is called "the great communicator" because he was able to effectively talk to the russian president and come to an arms aggreement that put everyone's minds at ease. the cold war really effected the entire world because is russia and the u.s. were to have gone head-to-head in a nuclear war, the world would most likely have been annihilated.
think about it, do we ever really even think of a nuclear war today? nope & that is thanks to reagan.
yes. i loved him.

Answer 9

Once a political figure dies, he tends to be romantisized by his followers. Regan especially, because he was the first conservative to galvanize the movement after the 60's (basically washing away the stain of Watergate and taking on those "dirty hippie liberals"). He also scored the first token military victories after the disaster of Vietnam.
In truth, he wasn't that great and histroy will remember him for few outstanding moments.

Answer 10

Because Regan was an actor and the fiasco that took place while he was in office was perhaps his best performance I think He and Bush were the worst presidents ever to hold the office as for Bush that applies to both Jr And Sr