A Hate Crime

[sirs]

The right is not looking to politics for father figures , competant government would treat the common man as if he were an individual and an adult.

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I don't think YOU are looking for a father figure, but a lot of the far right is clearly looking for another Reagan, who was more of a grandfather figure, to lead them back to the happy times they had in the 1950's, when gays stayed in the closet or went to nuthouses or prison and women stayed at home baking cookies.

I see this premise as projecting the Leftist attitude twards leadership onto the right where it does not really exist.

Sadly, it happens all too often

[Xavier_Onassis]

Reagan sure as hell did not inspire me. He seemed to me to be both stupid and ignorant. He was good at acting, though. He fooled most of the people a lot of the time.

And he was a father figure, and still is one to right-wingers to this day.

[sirs]

Reagan sure as hell did not inspire me.

LOL.....why would he inspire a radical liberal??

He seemed to me to be both stupid and ignorant.

As concluded by a radical liberal.   

And he was a father figure, and still is one to right-wingers to this day.

Just as plane accurately concluded, leftist trying to apply non-existent broad brushed attitudes, upon the right.  He was merely a competent, principled conservative, and highly articulate leader. 

[Plane]

http://www.amazon.com/Reagan-His-Own-Hand-Revolutionary/dp/0743219384



Reagan was far above advrage intelligence and commanded a better understanding of the worlds problems than anyother leader of his generation.

He was not much of a father figure to me tho, he never even learned my name.

[Xavier_Onassis]

He was a dummy, face it. He was just this actor they hired. Every morning they gave him a script. Without it he was lost.

[Plane]

He was a dummy, face it. He was just this actor they hired. Every morning they gave him a script. Without it he was lost.

That is gullability you are displaying.

These are the talking points that were repeated often enough to be accepted without evidence.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I watched this fool for ten years. I know a fool when I see one. Reagan was just a very good actor. We are lucky not to be cursed with more like him.

[sirs]

He was a dummy, face it. He was just this actor they hired. Every morning they gave him a script. Without it he was lost.

What I'll face is this ongoing uncredible, unsubstantiated AMBE, that you perpetuate to the best of your ability, on a daily basis

[BSB]

Clark Clifford had it about right when he labeled Reagan "an amiable dunce".


BSB

[Plane]

  That is the danger of just accepting what you get told.

    Reagan was prone to run rings around his opponents in debate or in political maneuver.

     But people would insist he was a dummy.

      Well.... there you go again.

[sirs]

 

[Plane]

   I think I am about to learn something ....


    Do liberals indeed expect leadership to be paternalistic?
     Is government and family the same concept?

    I would not have thought this , even of liberals.

[BT]

Look at the father figures for the last two Dem presidents and compare to the father figures for the last two GOP presidents.

Something seems to be amiss with the diagnosis of the GOP, handed to us by our blue state betters.

[sirs]

Indeed

[Xavier_Onassis]

But people would insist he was a dummy.

      Well.... there you go again.

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Yeah, there is a statement that right wingers consider a valid rebuttal.

Reagan was indeed both a dunce and good at seeming amiable.

As I said, he fooled many more people more of the time than any president I can recall.

But he was all image, a phony, nothing but an act.

The GOP is in the process of becoming extinct. That is a good thing.