Reagan Campaigns for Truman in 1948

[BeyondGeography]

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Rips the Republicans for putting corporate profits first while prices rise and incomes fail to keep pace. This Elizabeth Warren-style discourse leads into a glowing intro/endorsement of Hubert Humphrey...

[SunSeeker]

1. Dude knows how to read a script. nt

[nightscanner59]

2. Wow! WTF turned him so corporatist by 1980?

Ray Gun years seemed the beginning of our undoing. I cringed every time I saw Ronnie revel in the riches, having no idea he once was different? Or was this just script he was reading as a paid orator?

[BeyondGeography]

3. Nah, he really was on the blue team

He didn't leave the party, the party left him...the bullshit line that "Reagan Democrats" continue to use.

What I really love about this clip is he scoffs at the magic of the marketplace; the Republican belief that higher corporate profits would in effect trickle down to the average worker. Wasn't buying that voodoo, was he?

[nightscanner59]

4. All I saw in 1980 was Ronnie arm in arm with the likes of Jerry Falwell...

Scaring the living crap outta me, as that evangelical garbage always did. Carter had his religious side but it wasn't scary to me. It was the first election I was old enough to vote, voted for Jimmy and was so depressed at the landslide for Ray Gun.
Wow... I'm going to have to read into this-- I simply hadn't paid attention before that election in which I could vote. I'd seen him then as the big scary GOP'er and figured he'd always been.

[BeyondGeography]

6. He campaigned against the red-baiting Nixon in 1950 and by 1960 was calling JFK Karl Marx

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1894529_1894528_1894518,00.html

[denem]

5. Reagan ran against inflation in 1980

Let's not forget Democrats for Reagan

[Smarmie Doofus]

7. It was Nancy. She fried his brain. n/t

[DhhD]

8. Reagan: A Founding Father of Bait and Switch. What a great Democratic Campaign ad for election

times.

[Paul E Ester]

9. That was pretty amazing, do you know if that was a paid spot, or an equal access pitch?

I always thought he was a bumbler, he sounded pretty sharp at one time.

[PennsylvaniaMatt]

10. As they would say on Free Republic: "RINO ALERT!"

Even the Ronald Reagan of the 1980s was "milder" in comparison to Rush Limbaugh, Todd Akin, Richard Murdock, and Rick Santorum!

I love to point out to right-wingers that Reagan raised taxes, signed amnesty for illegal immigrants, and in 1994, was the main reason why assault weapons were banned for 10 years!

[Dryvinwhileblind]

11. Rot in anything but peace>>>>>that is all.