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technically practically anyone can be a senator. I probably wouldn't vote for her, but the only qualifications you need are to be American (for nine years), to be a resident of the state you intend to represent, and to be 30.

And Reagan was the only good one of the lot, celebrities in politics have a bad track record.

I think you can understand why I don't like considering I don't even like Arnold S. (sorry I just can't spell his last name)

I merely felt it necessary that they have a bad track record for producing good politicians.

Ok I would like some specific reasons why you feel Reagan was evil.

Cutting social programs is a good thing, it encourages people to motivate themselves rather than sucking off the government's breast.

You act like being anti-communist is a bad thing, communist governments are lead by dictators, dictators are even less tolerant of opposing viewpoints than Reagan was. Honestly had Bush been a dictator you would have had to keep your mouth shut for the last 8 years, I for one see oppossing an oppressive government as a good thing.

You know what else he ended? The cold war.

The Reagan doctrine tried to accomplish U.S. goals without using military forces, in an attempt to encourage people to take power into their own hands, now tell me how is that a bad thing?

The Iran Contra scandal, yes it was a mistake but people do in fact make mistakes even presidents do. One mistake does not make a person evil.

Capitalism is part of the free market system, the free market system works, but only when washington allows it to work. Bush I did not allow it to work effectively, Clinton sure didn't, Bush II even didn't, and I'm absolutely certain Obama will not.

Poured money into the war on drugs, poured money into trying to reduce the amount of junkies in this country, poured money into combating the illegitimate sector which pays no taxes and does nothing except make people dependent, and spread aids infected needles around.

In all fairness not many presidents have done much of anything about aids, in fact Bush II did more than any other president so shouldn't you be celebrating him or something?

Yeah if you didn't hear we kind of had a cold war going on that we needed to wrap up, his defense expenditures boosted american pride and created jobs.

We were never talking about socialism, I do believe the Soviet Union was communist not socialist, please try to stay on point.

Now that you have brought socialism to the table I feel I must address it, socialized healthcare, which how much government programs fail at almost every turn the last thing I want to do is entrust them with the most important thing of all. Public education... failure, I don't know about where you live but here, road maintenance... failure, NASA... failure, U.N.... failure, here all trash collection is mandated to one company, they are feeding on us like vampires. I kind of like the free market system I've seen it work, but everywhere government has a hand from city to international I've seen nothing but failure, even the library where I live fails we now have 4 big screen plasma tv's at our library 3 of which are still in the boxes from a month ago, all the while the higher ups tell the workers [me and my co workers] that we've had to cut back hours and staff because we're running out of money.

I'm quite convinced that if socialized healthcare arrives I will lose out, I've never seen the government do to much right, and I don't want to lose out on the most important thing of all. You wanna make America healthier, socialized healtcare is not the solution, cut out alot of mcdonalds, burger king, and taco bell. We are unhealthy because we eat like crap and don't exercise, if we keep this up socialized healthcare wouldn't be able to handle us.

Other nations eat much healthier and exercise more too. We are a nation of obesity, not because our healthcare, but because our laziness, which is part of the reason we're running in the red now too.

Maybe Reagan saw what was not working and tried something new, instead of critisizing his idea lets find a better one, one that perhaps makes more cops instead of telling the existing ones to do better. As it stands now I'd rather defend my own life than to call the cops, I agree we need better law enforcement but the government in all its "wisdom" is highly unlikely to approve higher budgets for police departments so I don't see anything changing anytime soon. Also are you suggesting we should abandon hope of catching the guys who cross our borders illegally with the one and only purpose of selling drugs to our youth? That sounds pretty depressing to me that anyone would argue for a relaxation of border patrols. Instead of this socialized crap lets spend our extra tax dollars on something that works better... more law enforcement.

I agree that it was Reagans luck that S.U. fell on his watch, but to say he had no influence on it is ridiculous. By that logic George W. Bush is completely innocent of the mess we're in now, we're in a jam now because GWB is pursued the same failed economic policies of his father. Maybe his don't fail as much as they could have, but economies are like children, sometimes they do good, sometimes they do bad it all depends onwhat people expect of them. If a kid thinks that people think he's a punk he's gonna be a punk. Also economies like children will work worse and worse the more you try and mandate them and surround them sanctions. The more you let them do thier own thing as much as humanely possible [I.E. anti trusts ect.] of course you cannot let economies just run free but the more you tell it to run the less it will.