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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-04 06:00 PM Original message |
Why did Ronald Reagan leave the Democratic Party ?? |
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FlashHarry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-04 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
1. Er... because he was a racist? |
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LTR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-04 06:07 PM Response to Original message |
2. Swallowed up in McCarthyism |
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eissa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-04 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
3. Didn't it begin while he was President of SAG, |
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mistertrickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-04 06:09 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Take a stand, are you kidding me--he was a major informant, ratting |
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mistertrickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-04 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
4. He was influenced by his SECOND wife (you know, the adulterous one) |
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erpowers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-04 07:37 PM Response to Reply #4 |
17. More details please |
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Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-04 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
6. I'm sure it had something to do with money and power. |
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Michael Costello (179 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-04 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
7. Career and IRS problems |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-04 06:28 PM Response to Original message |
8. he was a fink for McCarthy, turning in Union members who came to him for |
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JayS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-04 06:46 PM Response to Original message |
9. "Why did Ronald Reagan leave the Democratic Party" |
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I thought so. (466 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-04 06:46 PM Response to Original message |
10. Nancy. |
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Dirk39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-04 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
11. After the communist party rejected Reagan... |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-04 07:11 PM Response to Original message |
12. no point staying after everybody knew he was a ratfink |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-04 07:15 PM Response to Original message |
13. because he was a racist, elitist, greedy f***ing asshole |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-04 07:18 PM Response to Original message |
14. Because of all the mean things DUers were going to say at his funeral... |
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FatSlob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-04 07:26 PM Response to Original message |
15. He changed his philosophy. |
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Walt Starr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-04 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
16. He named names in the HUAC hearings |
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