Why do Republicans worship Ronald Reagan ??

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100. The question is did Reagan handle the press...

or did the press handle Reagan. If you look back at the history of 'the military industrial complex':

Nixon was ending Vietnam; Nixon was ended. His vice president was 'resigned' and Ford (the CIA's best friend) skootched into place just in time to step in when Nixon resigned.

Of course he wasn't reelected, but since Walter Cronkite (the most trusted man in America) was opposed to the Vietnam war; they needed to end that influence. The defense industry started financially taking over the burden of providing news to the masses.

If you look at the Carter administration (and Carter himself) they are actually pretty impressive. Carter's impressiveness never came through on television.

If you had to summarize Reagan's administration accurately in two words those two words would be 'defense buildup.' Then there is the selection of the former director of the CIA as his running mate.

I saw an interview with James Garner once and he said 'they' asked him to run for office. He said 'first of all; I'm a democrat'. I think that the forces that be we're looking for an actor to play president for a while.

Reagan was the one who finally played president for them; then they took over the television stations so that there wasn't much opposition to the saber rattling done for the defense industry.

Pretty good plan really. Then there's Fox News; kind of the icing on the cake.