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Discussion: U.S. Election 2016: Primary Season
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I could literally watch a debate between only Jeb and Trump for hours 
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Tbh I can't really think of any "great" Republican presidents outside of Reagan.
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How many times is Ronald Regan's name thrown around in these debates? 
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Reagon was not a great President...the economy was a mess under his administration
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Originally posted by iheartBrit
I could literally watch a debate between only Jeb and Trump for hours |
Oh my god same. I'm pressed that I missed so much of this 
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Clinton was a much better President...aside from his personal indisgreations
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Rubio is an idiot. 
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Jeb: trump attacks my mom who's a strong woman
Trump: then maybe she's the one that should be running
he's the comeback King
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Originally posted by Dessy Fenix
Tbh I can't really think of any "great" Republican presidents outside of Reagan.
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Reagan
George HW Bush
Dwight D Eisenhower
Theodore Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Calvin Coolidge (one of my favorites)
There are a few I can think of
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Using religion to gain voters is sooooo gross 
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I'm still not over how much Carson looks like my Soc. teacher.
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Mess why is same sex marriage one of the google trends. Republicans remaining bitter.
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Regardless of certain elements of Reagan's policy and lasting effects, all it takes to realize how good he was as a President is a quick glance at his Wikipedia page:
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Entering the presidency in 1981, Reagan implemented sweeping new political and economic initiatives. His supply-side economic policies, dubbed "Reaganomics", advocated tax rate reduction to spur economic growth, control of the money supply to curb inflation, economic deregulation, and reduction in government spending. In his first term he survived an assassination attempt, escalated the War on Drugs, and fought public-sector labor. Over his two terms, his economic policies saw a reduction of inflation from 12.5% to 4.4%, and an average annual growth of real GDP of 3.44%; while Reagan did enact cuts in domestic discretionary spending, increased military spending contributed to increased federal outlays overall, even after adjustment for inflation. During his reelection bid, Reagan campaigned on the notion that it was "Morning in America", winning a landslide in 1984 with the largest electoral college victory in history. Foreign affairs dominated his second term, including ending of the Cold War, the bombing of Libya, and the Iran–Contra affair. Publicly describing the Soviet Union as an "evil empire", he transitioned Cold War policy from détente to rollback, by escalating an arms race with the USSR while engaging in talks with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, which culminated in the INF Treaty, shrinking both countries' nuclear arsenals. During his famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate, President Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!" One and a half years after the end of his term, the Berlin Wall fell and on December 26, 1991, nearly three years after he left office, the Soviet Union collapsed.
Leaving office in 1989, Reagan held an approval rating of sixty-eight percent, matching those of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and later Bill Clinton, as the highest ratings for departing presidents in the modern era. While having planned an active post-presidency, in 1994 Reagan disclosed his diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease earlier that year, appearing publicly for the last time at the funeral of Richard Nixon; he died ten years later at the age of 93. An icon among Republicans, he ranks favorably in public and critical opinion of U.S. Presidents, and his tenure constituted a realignment toward conservative policies in the United States.
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Despite the continuing debate surrounding his legacy, many conservative and liberal scholars agree that Reagan has been the most influential president since Franklin D. Roosevelt, leaving his imprint on American politics, diplomacy, culture, and economics through his effective communication, dedicated patriotism and pragmatic compromising. Since he left office, historians have reached a consensus, as summarized by British historian M. J. Heale, who finds that scholars now concur that Reagan rehabilitated conservatism, turned the nation to the right, practiced a considerably pragmatic conservatism that balanced ideology and the constraints of politics, revived faith in the presidency and in American exceptionalism, and contributed to victory in the Cold War.
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In addition to all of that, Reagan does exceptionally well in public opinion polling with the public. The public has, and even more in recent years, given him a place in their memory and opinion that's rivaled or challenged truly only by JFK.
Now, historians and scholars traditionally place him lower, though still among the top quarter or so of Presidents, but the public's perception is more important in some ways. You can see why Republicans fighting tooth and nail for a shot to bring down the Democrats from their White House pedestal would idolize and constantly reference Reagan.
Historians and scholars, of course, favor FDR. 
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Rubio is so contrived and banal.
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Bye Rubio, I will be wishing your utter defeat.
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So basically Rubio wants to make us into a Theocracy... 
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They need to not have debates in front of an audience. The booing so annoying and slants the perception of ideas.
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Originally posted by Retro
Regardless of certain elements of Reagan's policy and lasting effects, all it takes to realize how good he was as a President is a quick glance at his Wikipedia page:
In addition to all of that, Reagan does exceptionally well in public opinion polling with the public. The public has, and even more in recent years, given him a place in their memory and opinion that's rivaled or challenged truly only by JFK
Now, historians and scholars traditionally place him lower, though still among the top quarter or so of Presidents, but the public's perception is more important in some ways.
Historians and scholars, of course, favor FDR. |
Stan for the best president of all time!
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