Reply #46: Cherry picking is utter crap.

[Jennicut]

Reagan instituted the global gag order on family planning, increased the national debt from $1T in 1980 to $3T in 1988, believed in generating growth by stimulating the supply side, supported a constitutional amendment to allow prayer in schools, targeted the Dept. of Education to be abolished, dismissed acid rain proposals as burdensome to industry, had the Iran-Contra scandal, believed in New Federalism: shift programs to states & deregulate, started the idiotic Star Wars, said many homeless people chose to be, was incredibly slow to act on AIDS.....etc., etc., etc. The list goes on and on and on.http://www.ontheissues.org/Ronald_Reagan.htm

It is utter BS to cherry pick a few things that Reagan did and say he is less conservative then Obama. Same with Nixon. It is utter ridiculousness.

Listen, Reagan started the whole government is bad and it must be drowned thing. It has taken us 20 years just to get back to having merely a moderate President. The future is clear, the baby boomers that loved Reagan are getting older (not all of them did but a good amount). The millenials are getting older. The demographics are going to shift the country more to the left over time regardless of what happens in the midterms. Rethugs will not be on top for long.