This is your GOP. This is your GOP on Tea. Any questions?

[Cannikin]

[el_bryanto]

1. Is that a step down, a step up, or a step sideways? nt

[Berlum]

2. They are both notorious draft-dodging Republicon chickenhawks

So my question is, why do the rest of the Republicons idolize so many draft-dodging chickenhawks ?

[Arkansas Granny]

3. While I've never been a fan of Reagan, he did serve in the Armed Forces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#Military_service

After completing fourteen home-study Army Extension Courses, Reagan enlisted in the Army Enlisted Reserve[33] on April 29, 1937, as a private assigned to Troop B, 322nd Cavalry at Des Moines, Iowa.[34] He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps of the cavalry on May 25, 1937.[35]

Reagan was ordered to active duty for the first time on April 18, 1942. Due to his nearsightedness, he was classified for limited service only, which excluded him from serving overseas.[36] His first assignment was at the San Francisco Port of Embarkation at Fort Mason, California, as a liaison officer of the Port and Transportation Office.[37] Upon the approval of the Army Air Force (AAF), he applied for a transfer from the cavalry to the AAF on May 15, 1942, and was assigned to AAF Public Relations and subsequently to the First Motion Picture Unit (officially, the "18th Army Air Force Base Unit&quot in Culver City, California.[37] On January 14, 1943, he was promoted to first lieutenant and was sent to the Provisional Task Force Show Unit of This Is The Army at Burbank, California.[37] He returned to the First Motion Picture Unit after completing this duty and was promoted to captain on July 22, 1943.[34]

more at link

[SlipperySlope]

4. And he wasn't bat-shit crazy his whole life.

Some of these teabaggers seem like they just walked out of a Warner Brother's cartoon. At least Reagan had a certain degree of rationality instead of living in a fantasy cuckoo-land where up is down and black is white.

[Berlum]

6. Reagan joined the Army's training division to make videos & avoid serving combat.

In my book, he qualifies as a Republicon chicken hawk

[trusty elf]

7. Yep, he spent the war years in Hollywood.

That didn't stop him from lying about it though. He claimed on more than one occasion that he was present when the Buchenwald camp was liberated.

I agree with you, Berlum. Raygun was a repube chicken hawk.

http://www.salon.com/2010/05/20/bushreagan/

[LiberalArkie]

8. At least he had the balls to enlist, that's more than the rest of them can claim.

At the time he enlisted he did not know what the future entailed.

I can't say much good about him, but he was more than a man than Bush II or Cheney or the the rest of the Chickenhawks.

[calimary]

9. Well, so did rummy and dubya, too. But they NEVER saw combat.

They never put their butts in harm's way. They never bet their asses and their own blood and lives and limbs. They got off easy, safely behind a desk somewhere. They never saw war, and never understood what horrible wreckage and waste it is. Frankly, I'm not impressed that reagan made movies for the Army as an enlistee. That uniform was little more than just another movie costume for him.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

5. LOVE IT!!!

[graywarrior]

10. Stealing

I'll put it to good use, I promise.

[Cannikin]

11. Please do. I don't often do memes.

[graywarrior]

12. Maybe you should!