I don't despise him just because he was a bad actor or because he was a republican. There are a lot of republicans I like and respect. But not this one.

Reagan cured the savings and loans of having excess cash. He conceived Iran-Contral but with his teflon coating had Ollie North and others (who were plenty guilty) take the heat. He fired the air traffic controllers rather than attend to the systemic problems that were contributing to major airline safety problems. His rich friends got even richer. Everyone else got shit in his Reaganomics trickle-down theory (someone said once that in England it is referred to as a horse/sparrow theory--the horse gets the oats and the sparrow picks at the droppings). They lived high on the hog there in Washington, D.C. when the Reagans were in office, yet had the nerve to tell school children that ketchup was a vegetable in their school lunches.