The essence of Reagan

By jurassicpork of Welcome to Pottersville:

Reagan was a lying Brycreemed scumbag who immediately began breaking his campaign promises of not balancing the budget at the expense of the poor and tens of millions of idiots fell for it as if they forgot that he was a Republican, one who openly insulted hippies and welfare queens. His hatchet man, the now-disgraced David Stockman, made CETA disappear overnight. The minimum wage was frozen for five and a half years. The poor got poorer, the rich got richer and the middle class got smaller. After eight years of him and four more of Poppy Bush, the deficit tripled.

He cooked up Iran Contra before even taking office or has it been forgotten that the American hostages in Tehran got released the day Reagan was sworn in? His supply side economics was so abominable that Gerald Ford refused to even talk about it, it got him so upset. He embraced the rebels in San Salvador by deluding the American people, and perhaps himself, into believing that they were killing evil Commies and he falsely took credit for bringing down the wall in Berlin and casting down Communism.

This is just the beginning of the litany of abuses committed by Saint Ronnie in his eight years in office. Yet, Republican presidential hopefuls are so bereft of role models that they barely possess the smarts to know that Junior Bush isn’t a good one yet lack the historical context to look twenty years beyond Reagan to Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was absolutely the best Republican president in the entire 20th century.

But no, they had to go on their Herbert West Reanimator quest and exhume the gauzy, glorified memory of St. Ronnie of the Jelly Bean as if he was the greatest thing since TV dinners when all Reagan really was was the Great Accidental Beneficiary of the fall of Communism.

I've never gotten my mind around why they keep on saying Ronald Reagan was a great president. He was? How could he have been? Wasn't it because he looked avuncular and was charming, had an actor's poise and voice? He left governing to others who promptly misused the opportunity and got into trouble. In fact.... those people are in office right now 'assisting' Georgie.

Update: Whig of Cannablog found the ultimate non-excuse apology by Reagan: