Opinion of Ronald Reagan

[ElectionsGuy]

George Washington: 77.6% Approval
John Adams: 87.0% Approval
Thomas Jefferson: 70.4% Approval
James Madison: 81.0% Approval
James Monroe: 66.7% Approval
John Quincy Adams: 79.6% Approval
Andrew Jackson: 23.7% Approval
Martin Van Buren: 77.8% Approval
William Henry Harrison: 50.0% Approval
John Tyler: 23.3% Approval
James K. Polk: 64.3% Approval
Zachary Taylor: 80.0% Approval
Millard Fillmore: 12.5% Approval
Franklin Pierce: 16.1% Approval
James Buchanan: 6.3% Approval
Abraham Lincoln: 89.1% Approval
Andrew Johnson: 19.2% Approval
Ulysses S. Grant: 76.2% Approval
Rutherford B. Hayes: 35.3% Approval
James A. Garfield: 83.7% Approval
Chester A. Arthur: 80.8% Approval
Grover Cleveland: 54.8% Approval
Benjamin Harrison: 31.1% Approval
William McKinley: 44.7% Approval
Theodore Roosevelt: 67.7% Approval
William Howard Taft: 68.3% Approval
Woodrow Wilson: 38.9% Approval
Warren G. Harding: 31.1% Approval
Calvin Coolidge: 45.2% Approval
Herbert Hoover: 35.8% Approval
Franklin D. Roosevelt: 78.7% Approval
Harry S. Truman: 74.6% Approval
Dwight D. Eisenhower: 80.8% Approval
John F. Kennedy: 59.7% Approval
Lyndon B. Johnson: 50.5% Approval
Richard Nixon: 17.0% Approval
Gerald Ford: 73.4% Approval
Jimmy Carter: 70.1% Approval

40th President of the United States: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan

I'll say FF overall, despite War on Drugs, big spending, and Iran-Contra.

[Potatoe]

HP, he was a senile old hack who was corrupt, intensified the drug war, and even had a racist side.

He also drifted the GOP majorly to the Right, *sigh* I wish Baker won in 1980.

[ElectionsGuy]

HP, he was a senile old hack who was corrupt, started the drug war, and even had a racist side.

Actually, it was Nixon who did that. Reagan just continued it.

[Maxwell]

It's basically a coin toss. Reagan did some pretty important things that helped the country, while at the same time screwing up in many other ways. Gun to my head: Reagan's an FF.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Nixon started the War on Drugs, man.

Anyway, FF.

Like I said in the Carter thread, people should vote more based on their presidencies. It's baffling that Jimmy Carter has a higher approval rating than Theodore Roosevelt and James Monroe for the only reasons being the racism of the latter two.

[Goldwater]

FF!

[Lief 🗽]

A terrible president.

[RogueBeaver]

Mega-FF, one of the best!

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

A good, effective President who did a lot to bring the country's confidence back after a disastrous decade.

Hardly one of the all-time greats, though. Just not significant enough.

[Cassius]

Mega-FF, one of the best!

This. I don't agree with him about everything; in particular his rhetoric on the state (although his views were probably more a product of the time when he was an active politician), but still, he did some good things with regards to the economy and in particular foreign policy. A balanced budget, something he admitted that he had totally failed upon, would have been nice, but, on the other hand, it was rather incompatible with his other objectives, so I can't fault him for that either.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Oh, the POS old racist who sold this country out to his corporate masters?  Garbage person and garbage President. 

[windjammer]

HP of course.

[AggregateDemand]

FF

Brokered the deal with Saudi Arabia (along with HW) that brought down the USSR. Legitimized supply-side economic policy. Simplified the tax code. Beat down the cocaine cartels and the military despots in the Americas. Helped restore economic integrity in the US without abusing inflation. Immigration reform.

Unfortunately, he had a case of hypermorality which caused him to associate "wrong" with "evil". If he thought you were wrong, he was only interested breaking you. It was a valuable characteristic for foreign policy, but it wasn't terribly useful for domestic affairs.

On balance, he was a patriot, and we were lucky to have him.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Oh, the POS old racist who sold this country out to his corporate masters?  Garbage person and garbage President. 

He wasn't racist. He was one of the first presidents not to be racist.

[Potatoe]

Oh, the POS old racist who sold this country out to his corporate masters?  Garbage person and garbage President. 

He wasn't racist. He was one of the first presidents not to be racist.

He was opposed to Martin Luther King Day, blocked a bill that would sanction Apartheid-South Africa, and the "Young Buck" thing.

[Joshgreen]

Arguably the single most damaging president this country has ever had. HP (sane).

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Oh, the POS old racist who sold this country out to his corporate masters?  Garbage person and garbage President. 

He wasn't racist. He was one of the first presidents not to be racist.

He was opposed to Martin Luther King Day, blocked a bill that would sanction Apartheid-South Africa, and the "Young Buck" thing.

The King Family also opposed it. And by racism I mean in a purely American definition. Reagan didn't hate blacks, even though blacks hated him.

[Franzl]

Arguably the single most damaging president this country has ever had. HP (sane).

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

FF!!

[Lief 🗽]

Oh, the POS old racist who sold this country out to his corporate masters?  Garbage person and garbage President. 

He wasn't racist. He was one of the first presidents not to be racist.

He literally made a speech about states rights next to the site where civil rights activists were murdered in the 1960s. He was a racist piece of sh[ink]s and his policies were as well.

[Sec. of State Superique]

The only things that I can think that were pretty great and that were made by him were reappointing Paul Volker as FED Chairman and helping to speed up an end to the Cold War.

[SWE]

A disaster. One of the worst.

[Clarence Boddicker]

The worst.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

You give many of the first 18 presidents HP status because they owned slaves, but judge Reagan based on his actual presidency. Something's wrong.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

Mega-FF, one of the best!