toxicmedia
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- Jul 5, 2011
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I don't know how far outside of San Fran you live. I'm about 90 miles away myself, and I remember that well, only it wasn't Bay Area folks buying the hysteria and misinformation about AIDs...it was idiots like Robertson, Swaggert, and Falwell that hinted at AIDs being part of an indictment of gays by God.The GOP MUST point to Reagan and exaggerate his effectiveness out of political necessity.
The reason is because he's the only Republican president that has left office on a positive note since Eisenhower.
Nixon: resigned in disgrace
Ford: short presidency of little note, obscured by Watergate fallout.
Bush 1: one term and a soft landing recession at the end.
Bush 2: economic crisis.
Without Reagan's inflated worship, the GOP has to go back to over 50 years to find a successful ending to an administration.
Reagan did some things right.
All that increased deficit spending on defense, which was his version of a stimulus.
Being in the right spot for a resurgence of American nationalism ala' post 60's revolution.
Claiming credit for the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union.
But so many, many more things wrong. 25,000 Americans died before St. Ronnie even said the word "AIDS". It's ironic that the party that worships him are going over the top freakout over one guy that died of Ebola.
Unless you were alive then, you have nothing to talk about.
It was great living in an area outside of San Fan where people were worried that mosquitos could give you aids.