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MoonRiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 02:26 PM
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Poll question: Reagan is dead. So, is he now relevant or not to our political situation?
Edited on Sun Jun-06-04 02:30 PM by saywhat
I know it's a more complicated issue than yes or no, so please explain why you're voting one way or the other.

edited for punctuation.
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genius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 02:38 PM
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1. But the Republicans will play on and use his death.
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MoonRiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 02:44 PM
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3. Maybe he relevant then?
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jjmalonejr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 03:08 PM
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5. They will sure try...
...but I think that as Americans rememeber Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush will look like a very, very, very small man by comparison.

Trying to compare GWB to Reagan and the War in Iraq to WWII will inevitably backfire.

I welcome their attempts to try and make political hay out of these things, but they will fail.
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benddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 02:43 PM
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2. He fought the big communist behind every tree
they don't seem to be there anymore.
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MoonRiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 02:45 PM
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4. Sounds like he's irrelevant.
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Leprechan29 Donating Member (391 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-04 01:07 AM
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6. Relevant
largely because he did create/reinvigorate the "new" Republican party in the 80's, though it could be argued that his ideas are falling by the wayside in today's Rep. party.
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