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howie-feltersnatch (UID# 262) 0  0
November 5, 2007 at 7:09 pm

No. Possibly the worst. A senile asshat who decided that being advised by an astrologer was a good idea. As a result he continued prolonging the Cold War far longer than necessary, pointlessly referring to the Soviet Union as “the Evil Empire” even after it was clear that communism was crumbling away. His “tear down these walls” speech, often lauded by Conservatives, at the time was just pathetic: the walls were already falling and everyone could see the end of communism. Reagan looked like a Johnny-come-lately who still hadn’t realized what everyone else had.

In his last years as President, it was obvious he was struggling with dementia. I went to a speech he gave at a Presidential Library. During the speech he got his papers shuffled around, and ended up giving part of it twice without noticing. He literally stopped in the middle of a sentence and picked up with a different one, but was too far gone to notice.

Of course, those of us who remembered him as a governor in California knew what a putz he’d be as President. This was the guy who, in regards to the fact that California had no tax witholding (you ponied up at the end of the year the full amount) said famously, “Taxes should hurt.” Guess who wasn’t paying any state tax, though, because of a funky loophole that only rich people could use. Go on guess. That’s right, Ronnie. What a fucker. I hope he suffered greatly in his last years.