Hey, I hear Elton John is doing some shows for Hillary. Did she help him write “Candle in the Wind”?

Yeah, but she did it while dodging sniper fire.

Who exactly has forgotten Reagan's lessons? Government growth and spending are out of control. Government intrusion into the lives of Americans is growing by leaps and bounds. Big brother is watching...

Reagan essentially ended the cold war without firing a shot. Bush has us boggled down in a bloody stalemate in a war we started against a country that did not threaten us.

I could go on for a while, but I have work to do...

Can you go even a single hour without saying something laughable? You identify me as a member of “the left”. I voted for Reagan twice. I think he was, overall, a good president and a damn good man. There were other factors in winning the cold war, but Reagan sealed the deal.

First of all, what, aside from your words, and your positions, would I have to identify you as such? You're fighting the impressions you leave, and nothing more. Whose fault would they be?

And at what point prior to your opening your editor, were you even identified at all in this trhead, much less as a liberal? You seem to be leaping up to defend against an attack which isn't happening, yet.

(Sigh)Since you insist, however;

So, you were a Reagan Democrat. A goodly number of his voters were. That's how landslides are had, after all.

At the same time, I'd say the majority of those... (yourself included, if your writings are any indication) have lost track of the lesson he taught. So I'm not sure exactly how to credit your claim....

Nor do I know how to credit your complaint, for that matter, given you agree Reagan 'sealed the deal'. What, exactly, is your problem with what I said, here?

Can you go even a single hour without saying something laughable? You identify me as a member of "the left". I voted for Reagan twice. I think he was, overall, a good president and a damn good man. There were other factors in winning the cold war, but Reagan sealed the deal.

Really dude, try and get out of your comic book, black and white world and join us on planet Earth.

Thing is, I didn’t SAY that, did I?

Seems to me that you did. If you had said something like "Liberals are more agreeable to evolution" as a negative attribute, I'd have pointed out to you that evolution is factual truth. Just because a Liberal agrees with something, doesn't automatically make that something wrong.

The fact is that while Reagan played a big part in not losing the Cold War, as did many Presidents before him, the Soviet Union collapsed from the inside out.

Yes, but when you say something like “Liberals are more agreeable to the truth”, then someone points out that the truth is still the truth, that is generally a positive for liberals, not a negative.

Thing is, I didn't SAY that, did I?

Nor did I mean it.

… case in point. Sheesh.

Yes, but when you say something like "Liberals are more agreeable to the truth", then someone points out that the truth is still the truth, that is generally a positive for liberals, not a negative.

heheh. I take your point James, but I warn you, the left finds such an idea far more agreeable than the idea that Ronald Reagan won it.

Gorbachev decided that it was more important to save Russia than to turn the West into communists. To say that Reagan or anybody else "won" the war is ridiculous.

I don't have any particular problem with that response but I do think it invites the question of why Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, or Barbara Bush haven't been touted for the presidency. Lack of interest on their parts?

I've said before that Sen. Clinton needs to be evaluated based on the resume she has rather than the resume she wishes she had and I'm sticking to that.

But by this standard, Nancy Reagan won the Cold War.

heheh. I take your point James, but I warn you, the left finds such an idea far more agreeable than the idea that Ronald Reagan won it.