1 Ronaldus Magnus

2 please let me know if there are any egregious spelling or grammar errors. i didn't really proof read it. I wanted to get it in before midnight.

3 ....and twenty minutes later that the Iranian hostages were released. Ronald Reagan fuck yeah!

4 Carter still hasn't gotten over it. The squealing little fuck that he is.

5 also let me know if there are other speeches you want to put in there.

6

Carter still hasn't gotten over it.

The squealing little fuck that he is.

watch the first video at about 1:30, you can see carter fuming

7 Tear down this wall is a good one.

8 Whatever Reagan did, it worked. I saw the country working and kicking ass.

9 I paid for this microphone is good, too. It's not a speech, but an outburst that told the nation this dude is not a pussy.

10 Why did Reagan make the cellphones so big?

11 Hostage Freed Video

12 Excellent, Ben!

Makes me all wistful and misty-eyed.

13 Go back and watch the Dean Martin Roasts on Youtube and TRY to imagine Jugears The Kendonesian laughing and joking like President Reagan did...

Most often at jokes aimed directly at him as told by others but also, throughout his life, told by himself...

14

Back when Presidents were Americans. Good times, good times.

Seems so long ago...

15 Dick Cheney's Warcock maintains its Reagan Shrine with utmost care.

16

Excellent, Ben!

Makes me all wistful and misty-eyed.

there are parts of the "Time for Choosing" speech where i clench my jaw and try to hold back the tears of pride

17 The Big Guy would be horrified to see what a steaming pile of fecal matter the Presidency has become since his day.

18 ok, added a few more. thanks eman

19

You can't show Reagan videos without remembering some of his Russian jokes.

Or the sound check where he was pleased to announce that Russia was outlawed forever.  That one stirred up the Left so badly they even made music videos about it.

20 Hoo boy do I remember the flaming shits the MFM had when RR said "evil empire". It was so awesome that RR didn't give a rat's ass what they said.

21 I was thinking about Big Ron's epitaph today in relation to the abortion house of horrors:

"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life."

22 The beatdown he gave Mondale in '84 was a thing of great beauty.

23 yeah I also remember that  the unemployment went up to 10.8%   about 2 years  into his term  it hasn't been that high since

24

Or the sound check where he was pleased to announce that Russia was outlawed forever.  That one stirred up the Left so badly they even made music videos about it.

Posted by: Dax at January 20, 2011 11:47 PM

Don't recall that. I do remember that he stirred up some lefty shit when he announced (during the sound check) that the U.S. was about to -- as Barry Goldwater so famously phrased it -- "lob one into the men's room at the Kremlin."

I'm really sorry he didn't make that one happen....

25 I grew up under Johnson and Nixon.  I served in the military under Ford and Carter (spit). 

Reagan was day to their night.  I loved the man.

26 I don't know... he seems a little out of it in some of those videos?

27

yeah I also remember that  the unemployment went up to 10.8%   about 2 years  into his term  it hasn't been that high since

Indeed. His tax reforms were passed in the 1980-1982 congress.

When he left office the unemployment rate was 5.3% and inflation was 4%

Good observation Archie. thanks for the reminder.

28 Paul Volker crushed Carter's Stagflation with a severe recession in 81-82. After that Reagan's pro-growth policies and other things kicked the economy into high gear.

29 Today is my birthday. Other people get presents for their birthday. I get presidents. It's kinda tough to send them back if I don't like them, though. The first president I got to vote for was Reagan.

30 What an amateur. We have t-shirts and slogans and props! He had to go all the way to Germany to get columns in the background. And what's that little paper Teleprompter he uses?

31

Four years removed from the collapse of South Vietnam? South Vietnam collapsed in 1975.  1975+4 does not equal 1981. 

 Regardless, Reagan is probably the greatest president I will ever see in my lifetime.  Whenever I think about Reagan, I always ask myself  how in the hell did Gerald Ford beat Reagan in  1976 and how in the fuck did anyone vote for Jimmy Carter?

32 Pales in comparison to the awesomeness that is Sarah Palin.

/heh

33 http://tinyurl.com/ybq68pm

34 33 Full of AWSOME

35

thanks bob, its a little over 5 years

36 This could not have possibly happened. Polls showed Reagan was down by 25 with no hope to sway independents!!! HMMMMMMM

37 ""Today is my birthday.

Other people get presents for their birthday. I get presidents.

It's kinda tough to send them back if I don't like them, though.

The first president I got to vote for was Reagan.""




Mine too, plus my birthday was a few days after election day. Its was great birthday back then. Fuck you carter.

38 Every year, I share his birthday. Every year, he's the first person I think of on that day when I realize it.

39

The beatdown he gave Mondale in '84 was a thing of great beauty.

Was that when he uttered one of my favorite lines, "I will not exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience"?  Totally blew away the argument he was too old.  Brilliant IMO.

RR was the first president I voted for too.  Loved him, loved the 80s. God I miss that man and the way he led the country.

 

 

40 Thanks Ben for putting up this thread.  I was remembering earlier today that today was the 30th anniversary of RR's inauguration, as well as the release of the hostages.  It was also the day I met my first true love, in a bar in College Station, TX.  1/20/81 was a great day all the way around.

41 11 Hostage Freed Video

Posted by: Good Old Days at January 20, 2011 11:35 PM (SWgtT)

and the AP flashes the "hostages freed" message before they're actually freed to salvage Jimmuh's failed presidency. even then the assholes were in the damned tank.

42 23 yeah I also remember that  the unemployment went up to 10.8%   about 2 years  into his term  it hasn't been that high since

Posted by: archie bunker at January 20, 2011 11:54 PM (0YS61)

Why archie, that's about the same number as inches of dick in your ass. What a coincidence.

43 There is conviction when Reagan speaks. You know he is against big government. you know he hates communism, you know he loves the USofA.

Obama does not belong on the same stage as Reagan, not even close. Reagan spoke like a President, Obama speaks like a traveling preacher.

44 Can we be certain Sarah Palin isn't President Reagan's secret love-child?

45

Reagan was the first president I ever voted for.  I have a big yellow button from his inauguration that says "Free At Last".  Hopefully, I can wear it again in January 2013. 

46 Actually, I should clarify that, the button was for the freed hostages, but as far as I'm concerned, it probably did dual duty since we were all freed from Carter.

47 I was in high school in 1976, and supported Ford over Reagan in the primaries. In 1979, I worked for Congressman Phil Crane's bid for the GOP nomination, and attended CPAC in Jan. of that year. I'd never been exposed to the love felt by conservatives toward RR, until his speech to that conference. I left that speech thinking Rep. Crane ought to have just gotten out of the way of that 500 MPH freight train leaving the station. I believe he governed this country as well as any human being could have. But more importantly, he inspired so many to believe in this country once again.

48 1 Ronaldus Magnus

Posted by: eman at January 20, 2011 11:27 PM (0aJSF)

Ronaldus Maximus

49 Lefties hated, HATED Reagan. And now they are trying to convince us that there is now difference between Obama and Reagan? Their new ploy reeks of desperation.

50 Can we be certain Sarah Palin isn't President Reagan's secret love-child?

...with Margaret Thatcher?

51

-yeah I also remember that  the unemployment went up to 10.8%   about 2 years  into his term  it hasn't been that high since  counted honestly since "W" left office.

FIFY

52 I'll be 46 in a few days.  I grew up stumping for Reagan in '76 by sending in paper route money (yeah, I was an Ayn Rand right-wing YAF geek-- and still am). I had the honor & privilege to vote for him in 1984 for the very first time.

Just finished part one of "The Age of Reagan: 1960-1980" by Steve Hayward (highly recommend it) and it brought back so many happy (and sad) memories of the 70s.

Elections matter.  We're on our way back...

PS  Palin as love child of Thatcher + Reagan...ROAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

53 Like a few of you, I first voted in 1980, and it was a very, very proud day when we dropped Carter down the barrel of the clown cannon and shot him out of the tent.

We didn't quite get rid of him permanently, his longest-running act has been as kind of a Phantom of the White House scampering around trying to drop sandbags on the country's foreign policy, but at least the damage he can do that way is somewhat limited.

54 Damn I miss that man..

Yes, he was an actor.. but his acting ability simply let him communicate his message so well.

"It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of growing beyond the consent of the governed."

No truer words need be said.  I ask all conservatives to read that whole passage.. Reagan does not put down government.. he says it needs to be limited.

55

Yeah, and to celebrate the 30th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's inauguration, his good-for-nothingl son, little Ronnie, Jr., is  maligning President Reagan on television talk shows for bizarre and irrational reasons.

I've always wondered if Gore Vidal got into Nancy ahead of Ronald, Sr.

56 Not irrational at all..  The little shit has a very clear profit motive.

57 Brian - that is truly an evil thought. 

But, yeah.  Ron Jr. needs about ten feet of duct tape wound around his flapping gums.

58 The Soviets had invaded Afghanistan and were actively involved in installing puppet governments and allies in sub-Saharan Africa, the Horn of Africa, South-East Asia, South America, and one of the Senate seats in Massachusetts. Um, ONE? (And if so, WHICH one?)

59

FYI if you missed it, that slimy low-life, little Ronnie, Jr., lied to CNN's Joy Bahar that his mommie, Nancy, supposedly told him that he, Ronnie, made his father "feel stupid" whenever he argued politics with his father ..., and, on a different show, that self-promoting liar and slimy low-life also told Elliot Spitzer that his father was so confused and so far behind the curve on Iran-Contra that he, little Ronnie, Jr., had to "rush" to the White House to fill-in his father on what was going on what there. Lies so preposterous that they would be laughable if they weren't so sick and weird ....., and yet, as one might suspect, liberal sick freaks Bahar and Spitzer sucked it up, practiucally wringing their hands with glee.

That slimy low-life's only claim to fame is that he is his father's son. Otherwise, he is a wastrel and an invisible nobody ....., and a mean, vicious, extremely neurotic, compulsive and pathological liar.

60 Which distinguishes him from most liberals... how?

61 Here is food for thought, how much more could RR done if he had the same congress that Bush had?

62 Morning Vic?  Which Congress?  The one where Trent Lott decided to share power with Daschle?   Or the one where we had a very slim majority in the Senate but McCain threw fits unless he could get his stuff passed?

Reagan would probably have had difficulty getting his message out.  The media finally figured out that likable American presidents should not get too much air time.  The networks often refused to show Bush speeches,  of which similar ones now get prime time coverage for Obama.

Our enemy is really the media. 

63 The only problem with Reagan is that he wasn't as intelligent as those who would be running today,I mean with the intelligent conservative crowd. Yeah his love of country, common sense, logical ways of attacking and solving problems we're spot on but the intelligence level was just, off a tad. Thank God he didn't had an irritating accent when he spoke or he may never have been elected.

64 Which Congress?

I am talking about if RR had Bush II congress when it was all Republican. And yes, the MFM did their damn best to stifle him but he managed to get around them.

65 Drider, common sense often trumps intelligence. 

66
Its funny what you remember about Reagan.  I remember like it was yesterday when my wife and I put our first $166.67 in our first IRA.  We thought it was so amazing that we could have a savings account and not have to pay taxes on it. 

67 I was a young married woman in 1980 and my kids were young.  Having had to buy a house with an 18% mortgage (I am NOT making this up) we were not thrilled with Carter.  Four years with Carter had left us with the misery index, diminished American power abroad,  a decimated military and intelligence service, higher taxes,  energy and meat shortages,  etc.

Reagan's inauguration was like sunrise.  "Morning in America" was exactly right.

68 Yeah his love of country, common sense, logical ways of attacking and solving problems we're spot on but the intelligence level was just, off a tad.
Thank God he didn't had an irritating accent when he spoke or he may never have been elected.

Not Ivy League.

Loozah!

69 I was ignorant when it came to politics back then. I was 14. Suffice it to say that three short years later after boot camp, I *got* it. And, man, we need someone as genuine as the Gipper to lead us, again. Amen.

70

True Story....

In 1978 I was a Military Policeman at Fort Benning.  Once or twice a month three black Limos would come on post, Secret Service vehicles in front and rear, and in the middle limo President Carters MOTHER.

They were taking her shopping to the Fort Benning PX/Commissary or the Ft. Benning hospital.  It always ticked me off.  Here they are, very well off, and they are shopping for food and taking up time at the hospital that was intended young enlisted or officer familys. 

And the security was a pain in the butt for the real military personnel as well.

71 Lurkin'no'mo, my point exactly sir. Please insert this fact in the "conservative women hate Palin" story below.

72

I'll be 46 in a few days.  I grew up stumping for Reagan in '76 by sending in paper route money (yeah, I was an Ayn Rand right-wing YAF geek-- and still am). I

i am too expat

73

Reagan, definitely in the top three presidents of all time, in my list.  Certainly the best since I've been alive and the first vote I ever cast was for him..  He turned this country around despite having a hostile congress, took on the Evil Empire and won (more impressively without a major war), and gave this country the strength to sail through the ninties and oughts with peace and prosperity.

The "archie bunkers" of the time always tried to dismiss him as an actor.  Which just revealed their partisan stupidity.  (For the record, Bedtime for Bonzo is Three Stooges level funny.)  They always skip over the other parts of him that showed his greatness: President of the Screen Actors Guild, two-term governor of California (before it became Californiastan)?  Hell, during his time as a lifeguard he saved 77 people. 

And during his time as president, he saved a whole nation.

(Ah, there I go again...)

74 The "archie bunkers" of the time always tried to dismiss him as an actor.

Yet, bigmouth idiots like Sean Penn and Alec Baldwin?  Geniuses.

75 And don't forget interest rates: U.S. Prime Rate All-Time High: 21.50% (Dec 19, 1980 through Jan 2, 1981).

76 If the internet and Vic were around at that time he would have called Reagan a Rino. Damn Rino said he would eliminate the dept of education!! See this what you get for electing a Rino, Amnesty!!!! Always negotiating with Tip ONeil, typical Rino!!!! Can you believe he nominated Kennedy and OConner to the SC. RINOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

77 Damn, miss that guy. A time when you really looked forward to seeing the State of the Union addresses, instead of now, when you look to see what's on Bravo or TNT. God, will we ever have a President like him, ever again?

78 God, will we ever have a President like him, ever again?

Posted by: GuyfromNH at January 21, 2011 10:29 AM (kbOju)

You betch'a!

79 In "A time for  choosing"

"extra wives for kenyan guv officials"

Fuckin' scary, huh?

80

 Ben, thanks for posting this collection of The Reagan Awesomeness! 

That man had class and dignity; concepts, character traits unknown in todays political arena.

81 Thank you Private Treptow and your fellow Doughboys.

And I just wanna give a shout out to Mike Padden

And God Bless these United States

82 Preceding Reagan was Carter, Ford, Nixon, and LBJ. Each had handed off an America that was in far worse shape than what they had inherited. True of Carter, Nixon, and LBJ, but not, in my opinion, Ford. He did an excellent job of healing America and restoring trust in the government, and he was winning the war against inflation when Carter took over. Not our best President and not as good as Reagan, but far better than those other three.

83 38 It was on this day thirty years ago that Ronald Reagan was sworn in as our 40th President. When he took office the inflation rate was well north of 10%, unemployment over 7% and the top marginal tax rate was 70%.

And the most astounding statistic:

The Prime Rate was at 20%

Today, it's 3.25%

People also tend to forget that, back then, that interest you paid on your credit cards, your cars, etc. were all TAX DEDUCTIBLE.  That changed/was phased out over a couple of years in the 80's.  So yeah, you paid high interest, but you got SOME of it back later. 

Wish we still had that now...

84 How did you fail to mention his 1988 speech to the Republican National Convention: "George, just one more thing . . . go out and . . . win one for the Gipper"  ???

85 Superb! President Reagan was the best president in my life time!  No others will reach this status of being kind, smart, and most of all, loved!  God Bless Ronald Reagan, he is missed by many.  What we have today is a joke.

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