Johnny boy,you just dissed St. Reagan on national TV.

[Swede]

That ought go over well in freeperville. He was talking about Ronnie sending the marines into Lebanon that lead to the deaths of hundreds of them with no good results.

[ingac70]

1. They hate it when you bring that up...

Because they have some of the bigger idiots in their fold that some how think its Carter's fault.

[Lasher]

2. He's right, Saint Ronnie cut and ran.

And the retreat is one of the few things the jackass ever did right.

The Beirut Fiasco -- Reagan Decides to Intervene in Lebanon's Civil War

In the spring of 1983, President Reagan and his team of hawkish advisors decided to intervene in Lebanon's civil war on behalf of Christian President Amin Gemayel. On March 24, the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit was dispatched to Lebanon where Moslem and Christian factions were fighting.

On April 28, 1983, a suicide bomber drove a van loaded with 2,000 pounds of explosives into the U.S. embassy in Beirut. Sixty-three people died, including seventeen Americans.

Four months later (September 6, 1983), two U.S. Marines were killed by rocket and mortar fire. At an October 19 press conference, Reagan was asked about the safety of the Marines in Beirut to which he replied, "We're looking at everything that can be done to try and make their position safer. We're not sitting idly by."

A few days later (October 23), another suicide bomber drove a truck loaded with explosives into the headquarters building of the First Battalion, 8th Marines, located at the Beirut airport. The resulting explosion killed 241 American servicemen.

Three months later, the Reagan administration removed American troops from Beirut and put them aboard offshore ships. Reagan described the retreat as taking "decisive new steps." Explained spokesman Larry Speakes, "We don't consider this a withdrawal but more of a redeployment."

http://www.geocities.com/thereaganyears/foreignpolicy.htm

[Erin Elizabeth]

3. He brought it up in the first debate, too.

Seems odd since he called Reagan his hero in this debate.

But Teddy Roosevelt is also his hero. Snort. Teddy would be a huge Dem if he lived today.

[LynneSin]

4. The Reagans do NOT like John McCain - Nancy barely endorsed him

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain/page/6

McCain's friends were blindsided by the divorce. The Reagans — with whom the couple had frequently dined and even accompanied on New Year's holidays — never forgave him. By the time McCain became a self-proclaimed "foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution" two years later, he and the Gipper had little more than ideology to bind them. Nancy took Carol under her wing, giving her a job in the White House and treating McCain with a frosty formality that was evident even on the day last March when she endorsed his candidacy. "Ronnie and I always waited until everything was decided and then we endorsed," she said. "Well, obviously, this is the nominee of the party."