12-03-2018, 10:11 PM
I have my problems with things he did, but he was the last of his breed. I was three years old when he ran for office, so I didn't know much about him. What I have been learning, though, was that his selection as VP was a surprise. He didn't believe in Reaganomics, and his "read my lips" comment was mostly him saying what he needed to in order to win. Now, we all know politicians do this, and he was apparently a master at it. But the party went the way of Reagan and he didn't. He was more pragmatic. He was more of an old-school Republican. And while he would do anything to win an election, once the polls were closed he was back to his more moderate and friendly ways. He was the last deficit/debt conscious Republican Commander in Chief, with Clinton and Obama being more of his ideological successors than his son or Trump.
I think he served in the office in a tumultuous time and that will color how he will be remembered. I don't like to paint over the legacies of people when they pass away, but I have mostly good things to say about this public figure.
I think he served in the office in a tumultuous time and that will color how he will be remembered. I don't like to paint over the legacies of people when they pass away, but I have mostly good things to say about this public figure.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
