Gorbachev: Bush once told me that ‘blockheads and dummies’ were supporting the ‘extreme’ Reagan.

[babsbunny]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/31/gorbachev-bush-reagan/

During a recent interview with The Nation editors Katrina vanden Heuvel and her husband Stephan Cohen, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev credited President Reagan for helping end the Cold War, but he argued that instituting democratic reforms in his country was the true catalyst. “Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended,” he said. Gorbachev later described a private conversation he had with then Vice President Bush about Reagan:

[pnwmom]

1. That's true. All Rethugs are supported by blockheads and dummies. nt

[gleaner]

2. What else can you say ....

Gorbachev was right about that. And at the time it seemed like I worked with all of them. Talk about an incentive to call in sick.