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StevieM

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1. If Reagan hadn't been elected then it is possible that a future president would have been

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Fri Mar 11, 2016, 05:28 PM

Mar 2016

just like him.

Jack Kemp might have been elected in 1984 or 1988. He was portrayed as a bridge-builder when Dole tapped him as his running mate, but he was actually the ultimate conservative.

The Republicans have long been marching our country down a right-wing path. I just hope it doesn't take another great depression to finally bring the Reagan Revolution to an end.

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Reagan Was Turned To the "Dark Side" By Nancy's Father. [View all] TheMastersNemesis Mar 2016 OP

If Reagan hadn't been elected then it is possible that a future president would have been StevieM Mar 2016 #1

I really think that saying something like this poprocks71 Mar 2016 #2

She is dead...and the dead have no opinion! physioex Mar 2016 #3

I'm sure her friends and family are reading DU TSIAS Mar 2016 #5

Yeah, well. Iggo Mar 2016 #6

Did you actually read my post? StevieM Mar 2016 #7

Nancy's stepfather, Dr. Loyal Davis... Raster Mar 2016 #4

The social circles she moved in were also far right-wing ... eppur_se_muova Mar 2016 #8