Ronald Reagan was a truly mythical figure

[Stinky The Clown]

Everything about him celebrated today are myths. A sampler:

His patriotism was a myth (Arguably, he committed treason).

His fiscal conservatism was a myth. (We're still paying for it)

His "sunny optimism" was a myth. (Ask any of the grape pickers who were on strike while his was governor)

His leadership qualities were a myth (Beruit->Marine Barracks->Retreat->Grenada)(Dementia)

His concern for "all Americans" (Ketchup? Really?)



Name some other myths the right wingers love to cite about their sainted Ronnie.

[The Wielding Truth]

1. Honestly, I liked him when he was host of 20 mule team show.

[DJ13]

2. See, even then Reagan lived in a black & white world

[The Wielding Truth]

8. Yep. Get those commies and union guys. He was a company man for sure.

[Dogmudgeon]

3. Say "Cheese!"

--d!

[WCGreen]

4. and he ducked out on WWII...

[bobbolink]

5. MOre of his "concern for all Americans".... Cut HUD to ribbons and began the Homelessness Epidemic,

cut 417,000 disabled people from disability, resulting in thousands and thousands of suicides.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

6. Funnily enough, we caught a Reagan special on the Military Channel the other night....

And I could hear the Reaganites all over the country collectively beating it. It was horrible. Most of it was lies and they acted as if the wall fell only because of him. When in truth all the leaders all over the world had been pressuring the Russians to get rid of their unsustainable oppressive government. (Side note: democracy isn't working to well for them either. They have to go back to Socialism if they really want to survive. That country is so full of corruption and people are hurting, some would say more so, than back in the 70s and 80s).
Anyway, that might all be BS, but that's what what I have been reading has shown me...
Duckie

[gratuitous]

7. I don't myth Reagan at all

Does that count?

[Lint Head]

9. Truly mythical! Truly, truly mythical.

–noun
1.
a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/myth

[craigmatic]

10. The reason why repubs see him as this mythical figure is because he was the most successful

2 term repub president who didn't get impeached. Nixon was damaged goods, Eisenhower compromised too much, and bush 41 compromised and lost to Clinton. They had to polish reagan's legacy as a matter of neccessity.