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BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)It is true that 1980s Bonzo wouldn't make it in today's GOP.
But the guy was just an actor. He was hired help. Hired to play a part. In 2013, Bonzo would be playing a different role. It is absurd to suggest an actor wouldn't be interested in a new script. Of course he would.
shanen
(349 posts)However, you mostly captured my sentiments about it. I still want to know who was really calling the shots.
One more point I would add. I think that Reagan was mostly a reaction to Nixon. They didn't want someone smart enough to actually be held responsible for the bad shite, so Reagan, Quayle, and Dubya were the first experiments in fake presidencies (though Quayle never became a credible presidential candidate, thank gawd). Unfortunately, the neo-GOP lunatics have learned that it works, and they also count Poppy Bush, Dole, and even the lost and already unlamented Romney as more evidence AGAINST competency in their ranks.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)ForgoTheConsequence
(4,869 posts)The union busting? selling arms to terrorists? supporting right wing death squads? setting the foundation for the current destruction of the middle class? I'm curious.
Boomerproud
(7,979 posts)There wasn't one thing Maher said that wasn't true. I wish Obama would watch this and admit it.
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)Reagan WAS the change in trajectory that started the downward spiral of this country and any other country that implemented the same idiotic economic policies of Milton Friedman.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)He began to crap on the majority of his constituents as soon as he accepted public office. While the President of the Screen actors guild he also was a secret FBI informant on communists in Hollywood.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)"Last year they tried to elect his haircut"
"They want him on a stamp so they can lick his backside"
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)brand of Tea Party crazies - but in terms of demonizing the poor, making greed into a virtue and making anti-science and anti-intellectualism into the knew "being sensible" - Reagan to a large extent made the main Tea Party themes the mainstream of American political culture.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,393 posts)He made shit up and poisoned the country. Ruck Feagan.