Happy 100th Birthday Ronald Reagan

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Is there a single Republican president from, let's say the last 100 years that you guys don't think belongs behind bars?

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Sure. Super simple question actually. Going from most recent backwards:

George Herbert W Bush (daddy not the shrub): Extremely solid background, true war hero (volunteered for extremely dangerous duty-unlike shrub-and by all accounts performed superbly) and as a candidate against Reagan exposed the fallacy of voodoo economics. Unfortunately he fell under the spell of Reagan and as President was Reagan Lite rather than his own man, but he did an OK job as Pres.

Gerald Ford: a personal hero of mine for many reasons, terribly underrated as President-he was President when huge tough problems faced the US

Eisenhower-kind of like the General Grant for our century, without the endemic corruption.

The rest are earlier than my lifetime:

Herbert Hoover: total fool who doubled down on his shrink the government/cut spending idiocy to mushroom a stock panic into the Great Recession, but not crimminal

Coolidge & Harding: by all accounts Coolidge not personally involved in the massive corruption in his regime, Harding just a typical politician who whored out the the prohibitionists to gain office. No bars for these two either.

Wm. Howard Taft: There is actually quite a lot to admire about him, although I disagree with a lot of his views

And just outside the century mark is Teddie Roosevelt, generally acknowledged to be one of our greatest Presidents and one of the few Progressive Presidents-at a time when we sorely needed one.

Nixon, Reagan and GWB had a common trait-if the law interferred with your policy goals, violate the law with impunity. They acted as elected kings. That character flaw has nothing to do with party affliation.

 

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Herbert Hoover: total fool who doubled down on his shrink the government/cut spending idiocy to mushroom a stock panic into the Great Recession, but not crimminal

And how many republicans want to repeat the same mistake again touting shrink the government/cut spending again because they don't learn from history?

Nixon, Reagan and GWB had a common trait-if the law interferred with your policy goals, violate the law with impunity. They acted as elected kings. That character flaw has nothing to do with party affliation.

Oh doesn't it? I respectfully disagree. The reason they have that "character flaw" is because the wealthy run this country, and allow them to run with impunity as long as they do as they're told. It has everyhting to do with party affiliation.