You liberals are hilarious.    You give me the best arguments whenever I have debates with clear thinking people.    Like Tom Paxton said "sometimes you don't have to saturize a person, you just quote him directly"   The rhetoric is so far out there, it is the best ammunition I could ever have.   

Bill Clinton never won 50% of the vote.    Reagan captured 49 of 50 states.   Thats an ass whippin.    There are 10 hour waits to visit his coffin to pay last respect.   Historians vote him one of the best 10 presidents in history.   The public voted him the greated president in history (per time magazine)

In quotes this week, the current president of Nicaragua praised him for bringing democracy to his country which has continued to vote pro USA democracy ever since.    The president of St. Lucia praised Reagan for defeating communism in the Carribean and preserving democracy there.   Of course, people in this forum know more about those countries than their leaders do.

The argument that defeating Communism was just a coincidence is ignorant and not based on any fact other than wishful thinking and revisionist history.    Why was the USSR so agressive in the late 70's when Carter was president and destroyed only a few years later.   Maybe the incrase in military budget by Reagan.   Maybe Star Wars.   Maybe the refusal to sign the nuclear arms treaty which stunned Gorbachef (and the world) Maybe the constand voice calling communism the evil empire.   Maybe they were afraid of Reagan. (Iran sure was relseaing the hostages on the night of his inaguration)   Maybe all of those.    To say it was coincidence is like saying folk musis owes nothing to Pete Seeger because it was inevitable it would happen anyway.   

To say the economy was just a coincidence is just as foolish.   Under Carter there was huge unemployment, 17% interest rates, high inflation, and gas lines.   The 1980's was labeled the "decade of greed"   You couldn't call it that unless the economy was successfull.   And it was successfull FOR ALL PEOPLE.   Look it up.   All segment of society benefitted.   The lowest fifth of people benefitted as much as the highest fifst.   I know that most of you revisiionists won't acknowledge that, but as Yogi said "you could look it up"

To all my liberal friends- I feel your pain this week in all the praise of Ronald Reagan.