10 Things Republicans Don't Want Their Base to Know About Reagan

[scheming daemons]

1. Reagan was a serial tax raiser.
2. Reagan nearly tripled the federal budget deficit.
3. Unemployment soared after Reagan’s 1981 tax cuts, as it did after Bush's tax cuts.
4. Reagan grew the size of the federal government tremendously.
5. Reagan did little to fight a woman’s right to choose.
6. Reagan was a “bellicose peacenik".
7. Reagan gave amnesty to 3 million undocumented immigrants.
8. Reagan illegally funneled weapons to Iran.
9. Reagan vetoed a comprehensive anti-Apartheid act.
10. Reagan helped create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden.

[leveymg]

1. And, he made deals with those dirty commie bastards!

No, not a true Republican, at all. Not by today's standards.

[HughBeaumont]

4. After reading "Tear Down This Myth" . . .

. . . that, surprisingly, is the one thing that cheesed the Religious Fundamentalpatient Right off - the fact that he was willing to work with and talk to his supposed enemy rather than continue "The Cold War".

[scheming daemons]

2. Reagan would be considered a "RINO" today

[Scuba]

3. Reagan would be a "radical socialist" today. He called for national healthcare. n/t

[Philippine expat]

6. Any link

everything I have read dating back to a speech in 1961 he was
always steadfastly against it

[Scuba]

7. Sorry, no, but Jon Stewart ran a bit a few months ago...

...that included clip of every President back to Nixon calling for it. Including Reagan.

Anyone?

[EstimatedProphet]

5. And he was racist

Wait... they might actually want their base to know that.