“What happened was Democrats had gotten complacent, had gotten fat and happy. they thought there was a government program to solve every problem. Ronald Reagan came in and said we need to break out of the old ways of doing things and create a leaner, more effective government,” he said. “That was the right message then. I think that right now we went too far in the wrong direction. We can’t go back to the old liberalism of the past, but [when] you are on your own economic philosophy [of] Bush and McCain doesn’t work either. Let’s try a new way where we apply common sense, have government do what it does well.”
Saint Ronnie – union buster, AIDS ignorer, voodoo economics peddler, Iran-Contra swindler – is a role model. Old liberals are anathema. It’s so awesome when alleged Democrat Obama swings on Reagan’s sack and repudiates solid Democrats who have helped him along the way. I wonder how Ted Kennedy feels about all of this…
Now would be prime time for anyone who wants to give me shit for leaving the left half of my vote-by-mail ballot blank. Bring It On.
Update: 7:30pm PDT: A friend reminds me that I cut short my normal Reagan rant, and that’s a good point. Reagan isn’t just some Republican, or even just the last “successful’ one. He’s the personification of their whole insane cult. Any time they have to justify their corrosive ideology or debate anyone who wants to do something sensible, Saint Ronnie is invoked. From Cheney to the yahoos in Congress to every bloated talking head on Fox News or AM radio, Reagan is deified, and it’s mostly for doing things antithetical to progressive values and the goals of Obama’s own supporters. Even if Obama is just saying this because he thinks it will get him elected, he’s stacking the deck against Democrats.
Remember what I said a year ago when he was having fundraisers with gay bashers:
It’s always about Obama and nothing else, so if he sandbags his (nominal) party and ends up being labeled the sensible one by the media, he wins even when he loses.