[lbo-talk] Re: Reagan's conservatism

snit snat snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Sat Jun 12 08:29:15 PDT 2004


man. i love reading you and dwayne. don't always agree with you, but you sure know how to turn a phrase.

smoochiez!

At 11:23 PM 6/8/2004, Chuck Grimes wrote:


>``..he catalyzed serious changes in the policies and ideologies
>dominating the U.S... We didn't. It's a mistake to underestimate his
>role.'' Doug
>
>----------
>
>If you want to know Reagan's secret, it's simple. Follow a Hollywood
>script. Go back through every script with a left slant that appealed
>to higher principles, the common man, dipped in sentimentality over
>mother or some such, and depicted the enemy in the cruelest terms
>possible. My favorite for this was Grapes of Wrath.
>
><...>
>
>Why his deputy dog Ashcroft was just down to see the boys on Capital
>Hill today. He told them, if in you don't like the way I run Dodge,
>shove it. They likes to shit a brick. Never seen nothing like it.
>
>Biden asked Ashcroft for one of the John Yoo's memos and Ashcroft
>said, no. Biden told him he had to give a reason. Ashcroft didn't give
>him one. Biden was so incredulous, he laughed. That's what you call
>the olde stiffer-roo.
>
>CG

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