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JHB

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28. Sometimes I say I'm an "Eisenhower Socialist"...

Reply to Motown_Johnny (Reply #16)

Tue Jan 3, 2012, 07:21 AM

Jan 2012

...just to remind people how far they've dragged the "center" to the right.

By the standard of today's Republicans, we were practically communist during the Cold War. So what were the Soviets?

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Cantor has the IQ of an under-developed parsnip. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #1

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ah yes oldhippydude Jan 2012 #21

DUZY!!! n/t Surya Gayatri Jan 2012 #26

Great comparison...LOL! Surya Gayatri Jan 2012 #25

No offense intended toward parsnips. Fully grown ones are excellent. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #30

In The Parallel Universe KharmaTrain Jan 2012 #2

He's already doing that to Boner...has been for a long time. Watch his body language. Frustratedlady Jan 2012 #6

They're All Opportunists... KharmaTrain Jan 2012 #13

You mean "Cut & Run Ronnie"? bvar22 Jan 2012 #31

Delusional assholes and the people that work for them. . . . . . .n/t annabanana Jan 2012 #3

K + R deacon Jan 2012 #4

Reagan is as much a figurehead now as when he was installed Ron Green Jan 2012 #5

There it is in a nutshell. The differences between compromise and cooperation. That is what a southernyankeebelle Jan 2012 #7

Creepiest republican ever tularetom Jan 2012 #8

Yep -- body language says it all. Lying POS. Ship of Fools Jan 2012 #9

the funny thing is (because I remember it) tibbiit Jan 2012 #10

Yep. That was when they started to lose control of their party to the neocons. Ikonoklast Jan 2012 #17

Reagan's right wing critics mostly sufrommich Jan 2012 #19

Another Republicon caught out in a bald faced LIE SpiralHawk Jan 2012 #12

Yes ProSense Jan 2012 #14

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Their entire party is dependent on the "Reagan Myth" Motown_Johnny Jan 2012 #16

Sometimes I say I'm an "Eisenhower Socialist"... JHB Jan 2012 #28

He is pathetic... Spazito Jan 2012 #18

if the main stream media is pinning these asshats down oldhippydude Jan 2012 #20

That 60 minutes episode was on the breakroom TV at work. Seemed like GOP electioneering to me. Populist_Prole Jan 2012 #22

Gotta love his handler Surya Gayatri Jan 2012 #23

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The truth is that Reagan got the top marginal tax rate on high incomes slashed... JHB Jan 2012 #27

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Is this what you consider "class"? n/t ProSense Jan 2012 #32