How would you rate Ronald Reagan's presidency and why?

Question

How would you rate Ronald Reagan's presidency and why?

Answer 1

pi*s poor

why- he brought on the neocon generation

Answer 2

When the voters elect, then reelect you, and then your VP easily rides into office on your coattails, you were a successful president. Compare this to the last two democrats in the white house.  Carter was given the boot first chance voters got, and Clinton, who Gore didn't even want campaigning for him.  

Reagan secured the release of hostages held by Iran, taken hostage under Carter.  He also fixed Carters economy, which had double digit interest rates, inflation, and unemployment.  Oh, and he ended the cold war.

Answer 3

average, at best......

The firing of the air traffic controllers, winnable nuclear war, recallable nuclear missiles, trees that cause pollution, Elliott Abrams lying to Congress, ketchup as a vegetable, colluding with Guatemalan thugs, pardons for F.B.I. lawbreakers, voodoo economics, budget deficits, toasts to Ferdinand Marcos, public housing cutbacks, redbaiting the nuclear freeze movement, James Watt.

Getting cozy with Argentine fascist generals, tax credits for segregated schools, disinformation campaigns, "homeless by choice," Manuel Noriega, falling wages, the HUD scandal, air raids on Libya, "constructive engagement" with apartheid South Africa, United States Information Agency blacklists of liberal speakers, attacks on OSHA and workplace safety, the invasion of Grenada, assassination manuals, Nancy's astrologer.

Drug tests, lie detector tests, Fawn Hall, female appointees (8 percent), mining harbors, the S&L scandal, 239 dead U.S. troops in Beirut, Al Haig "in control," silence on AIDS, food-stamp reductions, Debategate, White House shredding, Jonas Savimbi, tax cuts for the rich, "mistakes were made."

Michael Deaver's conviction for influence peddling, Lyn Nofziger's conviction for influence peddling, Caspar Weinberger's five-count indictment, Ed Meese ("You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime"), Donald Regan (women don't "understand throw-weights"), education cuts, massacres in El Salvador.

"The bombing begins in five minutes," $640 Pentagon toilet seats, African-American judicial appointees (1.9 percent), Reader's Digest, C.I.A.-sponsored car-bombing in Lebanon (more than eighty civilians killed), 200 officials accused of wrongdoing, William Casey, Iran/contra. "Facts are stupid things," three-by-five cards, the MX missile, Bitburg, S.D.I., Robert Bork, naps, Teflon.

Answer 4

A total failure.

The cut and run in Lebanon, the negotiating with terrorist in Iran and later the Iran/Contra scandals. The huge deficits and the flouting of laws

passed by congress to prevent his central america tactics, and then claiming he was the one to bring down the U.S.S.R. and winning the cold war.  That policy was supported by every president since the end of W.W.2, it just happened on his watch.  If he and the republicans can make that claim, then it is reasonable to hold them responsible for 9/11.

Answer 5

Maybe the Best ever but way to liberal.