New video shows Rand Paul repeatedly bashing Ronald Reagan

[Danno 1,228]

The Left is funny.

They view talking about facts and ideas as "BASHING."

If only the Right had the same "circle the wagons" approach we would do politics a whole lot better.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

http://www.salon.com/2014/04/23/new_video_shows_rand_paul_repeatedly_bashing_ronald_reagan/

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is widely expected to run for president in 2016, and it’s become trendy among some political analysts to predict that, despite his foreign policy dovishness and hostility to the national security state, Paul will win his party’s nomination.

Well, Paul boosters may want to reconsider, because the liberal Mother Jones has just released a video showing Paul committing what in GOP circles is the ultimate, unpardonable sin: Bashing Ronald Reagan.

A compilation of several videos of Paul speaking, some going back as far as 2007, MoJo’s mashup shows Paul repeatedly criticizing Reagan for being a phony fiscal conservative. As if that weren’t bad enough, the video also shows Paul repeatedly comparing Reagan’s spending policies with those of the hated Jimmy Carter, history’s greatest monster, and finding the latter’s to be superior.

“The deficit went through the roof under Reagan,” Paul says in a video from 2007 showing him speaking on his father’s behalf. “So how long did it take Ron Paul to figure out that the guy he had liked, endorsed, campaigned for, campaigned for him [wasn't fiscally conservative]?” Paul asked. “The very first [Reagan] budget. Ron Paul voted ‘no’ against the very first Reagan budget… Everybody loved this ‘great’ budget. It was a $100 billion in debt. This was three times greater than Jimmy Carter’s worst deficit.”

In another video, this one from 2008, Paul damns Reagan with faint praise, saying the conservative hero’s “philosophy was good” but that he didn’t have “the energy or the follow-through to get what we needed.”

Even while running for Senate, Paul continued to criticize Ronaldus Magnus, saying the Gipper was essentially all talk when it came to shrinking the government and reducing spending.

“People want to like Reagan,” Paul said. “He’s very likable. And what he had to say most of the time was a great message. But the deficits exploded under Reagan,” Paul continued. “The reason the deficits exploded is [Reagan] ignored spending. Domestic spending went up at a greater clip under Reagan than it did under Carter.”

So how is Paul’s team responding to this bombshell? On Wednesday morning, MoJo was sent this statement from the senator: “I have always been and continue to be a great supporter of Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts and the millions of jobs they created. Clearly spending during his tenure did not lessen, but he also had to contend with Democrat majorities in Congress.”

(Apparently, the Paul team hopes dropping the “ic” from “Democratic” will keep the GOP base from abandoning him en masse. Good luck with that.)

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Saying anything bad about St. Ronnie is like committing political right wing suicide. Before Bush 2 came around, Reagan in my opinion was the worse president in my lifetime. Where to even begin...

That's all you got...He said openly he did not agree with some of Reagan's Policy's. AW WHooooooooo

The Left is funny.

They view talking about facts and ideas as "BASHING."

If only the Right had the same "circle the wagons" approach we would do politics a whole lot better.

Are we could just post a face palm pic or accuse you of failed reading comprehension in every post

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Either a child protege, or lying about his/her age.

Or maybe has swallowed the party line hook line and sinker, and is parroting the text book way he should have felt.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Reagan began the long slow slide downhill from the mid-century pinnacle of American greatness.

Cause after Carter it was all Downhill..

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

I was 4 years younger than you. I don't remember the first primaries, I'm not sure I followed it that closely. I remember the air controller strike, the closing of mental hospitals. My mom used to teach mentally ill people at the State hospital and I remember that was closed down under the Reagan years.

I think Carter got a bad rap. In hindsight I do not think he was that terrible of a president. I don't think it was a matter of his policy, rather the unfortunate timing of his presidency. Keep in mind we were coming out of the most turbulent time of internal social unrest and war in post-civil war history. I would not say we were weak rather people were war fatigued. The Vietnam war had just ended officially what a few years before? I remember the evening news and the, "this many days the hostages have been held". But as you mentioned Reagan broke the law, him and Ollie North, John Poindexer, Caspar Weinberger all crooks.

I think if history wants to knock Carter for his foreign policy failures, they weren't any worse than Clinton IMO.

I guess the only highlight of Reagans presidency that I admire was how he addressed the nation after the Challenger disaster. But that's what a President is supposed to do anyway, bring a nation together when there is a tragedy that affects the entire nation.

Carter did suck and bad. His own staff had no respect for him. He was an incompetent power drunk mico-manager Did you catch the president's Gatekeepers. They interviewed a lot of old staff members form different admins' Carter's people did not paint him in a flattering light.

[Pooky 3,784]

Only a fool refuses to look back and learn from previous experience. Time stands still for no man, and policies that seemed to work for a President over thirty years ago may be viewed with a different perspective today. Any party, or candidate, that does not review past policy with a critical eye does not merit serious consideration in an election.