I know that he was enormously poplular during his time, his re-election in 1984 was the largest blowout of all time, but he actually seems to have gained popularity since then, why?
2006-10-09 10:05:22 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
That's way wrong when he destroyed the complete Midwest. I was growing up and millions of people were displaced all over America out of work. He started a recession (Depression) that lasted until Bill Clinton cleaned it up. Bush has done the same thing too.
2006-10-09 10:17:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well look at who they have now. They are trying to rewrite history though. It was Solidarity, a labor union of all things, which Ronald Reagan was against, and Pope John Paul II that opened up the Iron Curtain and brought down communism, not Ronald reagan. Reagan also gave the terrorist of the Middle East the idea we were weak when he ran out of Lebanon in l983 after we lost over 200 Marines in a bombing. He was also the one who started trying to get rid of labor unions, the flight controllers, by firing them all. The results are seen today with no security for working Americans and all the jobs being shipped overseas. There are plenty of more things but it would take too much time to type them all out here. The Republicans are trying to make chicken salad out of chicken-sh*t because they have no true heros today. Reagan was an actor and not a very good president of the United States.
2006-10-09 17:16:42 · answer #2 · answered by Pop D 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He is practically a deity to republicans today-the Reagan administration attempted many of the policies that are successful for the current administration-he answered simply, was great at ducking a question with a joke and a smile. If he would asked about why he implemented a difficult policy, he'd just say, without answering the question, "I would never do anything to hurt the American people!" He lowered taxes for the wealthy, and said it was for the benefit of the middle class as well(I was middle class then and my taxes went up)although his balloning deficit and public outcry made him raise taxes in other areas. He was actually a pretty peaceful president but talked tough. Too many of the same themes to mention here!-just taken much further. George Bush Sr. was his Vice President.
Hmm...he fooled a lot of people.
2006-10-09 17:22:16 · answer #3 · answered by Middleclassandnotquiet 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
just being nice to a senile old man, i guess because there wasn't much great about the Reagan presidency. Iran/Contra drugs for guns scandal and the turning out into the streets of thousands of the mentally ill. plus murderers and rapists were set free from prison to make room for 10s of thousands of otherwise law biding pot smokers.
if Americans want to honor the Reagan presidency they should be honoring Nancy who by sheer force of will kept up the charade of Ronald's competency.
2006-10-09 17:14:43 · answer #4 · answered by nebtet 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because they are high, mistaken, deluded, or in a coma in the 80s.
How can you be a good president when you
1.cause a recession.
2.do nothing to stem to the spread of aids even ignoring it because its a gay disease(at the time thought to be)
3.******* fund the taliban, al queada, bin laden, saddam hussein, iran,
4.Reaganomics didnt work, Bush Sr. had to raise taxes because of reagans stupidity.
Oh and he had alzheimers. But then again republicans do seem to really like brainless blowhards who are tools of their party.
2006-10-09 18:31:24 · answer #5 · answered by stephaniemariewalksonwater 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
they are all delusional. he didn't win the cold war Gorbachev is the only man in history to give up power like that willingly. Reagan was a horrible president. look at the economy at the time. he single handily helped kill off family farms in America. Remember the Iran-Contra affair? he was one of the worst presidents of all time!!!
2006-10-09 17:34:27 · answer #6 · answered by Diggs 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some are deluded, some weren't there, some were there but not paying attention, some are mindless sheep that will believe whatever they're told to believe and some just don't have the intellectual capacity to make such determinations.
2006-10-09 17:27:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
History has shown him to be a great man, as well as a great president. A man that we can all look up to. That is an amazingly rare thing in this day and age.
2006-10-09 22:57:35 · answer #8 · answered by USMCstingray 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's mostly people under 40 that do. They only have lived through a handful of Presidents.
2006-10-09 17:08:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because compared to the current idiot in charge, Ronny the Idiot seems wonderful. And many people losing their common sense vote Republican anyway, which is what he was.
This is the guy who deemed ketchup a vegetable....and ironically, he became a vegetable, too!
2006-10-09 17:10:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋