Was Ronald Reagan a Socilaist, liberal, Democrat?

[cleanhippie]

Rolling Stone has a dose of reality for Reagan-worshiping Conservatives. The story open with this...

"The nation is still recovering from a crushing recession that sent unemployment hovering above nine percent for two straight years. The president, mindful of soaring deficits, is pushing bold action to shore up the nation's balance sheet. Cloaking himself in the language of class warfare, he calls on a hostile Congress to end wasteful tax breaks for the rich. "We're going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that allow some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share," he thunders to a crowd in Georgia. Such tax loopholes, he adds, "sometimes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying 10 percent of his salary – and that's crazy."

Preacherlike, the president draws the crowd into a call-and-response. "Do you think the millionaire ought to pay more in taxes than the bus driver," he demands, "or less?"

The crowd, sounding every bit like the protesters from Occupy Wall Street, roars back: "MORE!"

The year was 1985. The president was Ronald Wilson Reagan.

I think that if Reagan were alive today, he would have been kicked out of the Republican Party some time ago...

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-gop-became-the-party-of-the-rich-20111109#ixzz1dn3GLdlS

[begin_within]

1. He was an actor that read whatever script was handed him.

[FSogol]

2. Simple - he was a scumbag. n/t

[Autumn]

3. No, No and fuck no

he was an actor and a piss poor President.

[Old Codger]

4. An

Asshole of the lowest order (my apologies to assholes everywhere)

[uponit7771]

5. Compared to KKKons these days RayGun was a lefty

[iscooterliberally]

6. The whole world would be better off today if Reagan stuck to doing what he did best...

...making crappy movies. :+

[WI_DEM]

7. He was a New Deal Democrat who voted and campagined for FDR & supported Truman

then he supported Ike in '52 and as he became host of GE Theatre on TV he would go to all the different GE plants around the country and give talks and he became more conservative due to their influence and also Nancy who he married around that time was a republican and her father was a prominent doctor who oppossed 'socialized medicine' etc. He supported Nixon in '60 as a democrat for Nixon and then became a republican in around 1962.

[saras]

8. He was a conservative, still is. The DLC has moved the goalposts.

Anyone currently in the Democratic party who is to the right of Reagan on any significant issue really belongs in the Republican party instead. If they'd get the fuck out of the Democratic party, they could drive the Tea Party out of the Republican party - but they seem to be getting more political mileage this way, and we let them.

[phleshdef]

9. I love it when replies answer rhetorical questions while totally missing the point.

[cleanhippie]

12. +1

[RoccoR5955]

10. Reagan was a schmuck

And he killed my brother, by not funding AIDS research in the beginning, when he called it a gay cancer!

I will have a deep set hatred for that man for the rest of my life!

[vi5]

11. Reagan wasn't liberal....it's just our current Democrats

are conservative. So it's more that there's a much smaller gap between the conservative demigod and our current Democratic leaders, who worship him more than they seem to worship FDR.