
Originally Posted by
Godfather
Then-record deficits, increased federal meddling in K-12 education, sucked Chicom dick after Tiananmen Square and helped stop the wave of freedom, and almost blew up all the Gipper's Cold War work with his idiocy. (On the last point, Reagan adopted a policy of detente toward the end of his presidency in order to give Gorbachev political cover and undermine the hard-liners...dumbass HW wanted to go back to a confrontational stance. Might have been understandable if he hadn't been both Reagan's VP and head of the CIA, so he should have known better.)