Desperate democrats have hijacked the legacy of Ronald Reagan in a vain attempt to save their skins
First they ridiculed him. Then he beat Carter and they reviled him. Now they are revising him beyond all historic fact in order to advance their sinking, discredited agenda. At long last, they have no sense of shame.
Any time you see conservatives do something to great effect, you can expect the libs will follow with their own twisted imitation...
Obama talked about “Cleaning up” after Bush because the Bushies talked loudly of fumigating the White House after Clinton’s many misadventures. The Tea Parties begat the left’s Communist Kook Coffee Klatches (or whatever the failed project was called) and now the Occupy Wall Street human bowel movement is touted as the left’s tea party movement and Arab Spring all rolled into one.
Reagan and Kennedy: Two Conservative Presidents
The conservative comparison that really burned the liberals' asses was that of Reagan and Kennedy’s tax and economic policies, complete with audio recordings of JFK touting free market principles that are anathema to the modern day democrat party. Indeed, Kennedy sounds like a small government conservative tea partier. And the left is struck dumb at the realization that their martyred hero is a Reagan doppelganger.
Finally, they’ve struck back. They shamelessly ignore recorded history and turn Reagan into a compromising “fair share” taxaholic who enjoyed an era of unprecedented political goodwill.
Steven Hayward has written a comprehensive article debunking this Democrat party myth-making surrounding President Reagan. They hated him worse than they did Bush, and Hayward puts the tax raising issue in its proper context, reminding us that the net tax cuts under Reagan were gargantuan, he doubled GDP and he saved Social Security for the next generation.
Go here to read the excellent article, The Liberal Misappropriation of a Conservative President.
See also:
Reagan vs. Obama
Obama Compares Himself to Reagan... Again
