Nancy Reagan just says NO to Ronnie on Dime!

[MIMStigator]

just reported on Fox

She said Ronnie wouldn't WANT to be on the dime. heh

[bhunt70]

1. she'll get assassinated.

bye bye nancy.

(edit- this is not saying I think she should be, but I think the Reagan cultist will soon look at her as a hinderance to the overall conservative demogogry)

[neuvocat]

2. The love of her husband will be too much to bear

and so in an act of selfish love she will have been found dead of suicide. Or something like that.

[hlthe2b]

11. Thank you, Nancy... Some common sense still prevails!

I have never been a Nancy fan for obvious reasons, but respect for her has just gone up (as it has with her efforts sense leaving office to care for Ronald and maintain some dignity).

[The Backlash Cometh]

18. I think she knows Ronald Reagan is being used...and maybe she knew

they were using him when he was in the White House too?

[joeybee12]

3. She said no because if they try, the inevitable comparisons to FDR

are sure to follow! And that's the last thing that really, really, really awful president and his supporters want!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CatWoman]

8. BAM!!!!!!

Dec. 5, 2003 | More than a dime's worth of difference
In their ceaseless hissy fit over a Showtime movie that almost nobody watched, certain Republicans in Congress are proposing to replace FDR's profile with an image of Ronald Reagan on the dime coin. Whether intended as reparation for an insulting TV docudrama, or as a more sinister attempt to erase all traces of liberalism from the nation's symbols, this idea may backfire nastily on its proponents.

But if they pursue this new provocation against the memory of the greatest American president of the past century -- the leader who saved the world from fascism despite opposition from the Nazi-coddling "conservatives" of his day -- they will make a full debate about the dying Reagan's record unavoidable.

Notwithstanding the flattering mythologies that the Gipper claque has cultivated around him, Reagan would not emerge unscathed from a realistic public examination of his record. And that is particularly true today, when presidential responses to terrorism are coming under particular scrutiny.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/12/05/reagan_dime/

[alphafemale]

4. Ahh...I bet she's just holding out for a higher currency - foldN money

The Gipper deserves the C-note. :eyes:

[oasis]

10. Who's on the c-note? I haven't seen one in a while.

:-)

[Mz Pip]

12. Franklin, I think.

:-)

MzPip
:dem:

[oasis]

17. thanks.

;-)

[amazona]

5. well it's just too soon

The man isn't even dead yet, and they've already got him buried and on a coin. Sheesh. I don't like either of them but the GOP is being positively ghoulish about this. They've been acting like he was dead for years, naming this thing and that thing -- it might be pretty hard to take if you were the wife.

Besides, she's probably holding out for the hundred dollar bill or something. :-)

[yankeedem]

6. Since he was a 2-bit president

He should be on the quarter. Better yet, why not the Treasury Bills? Reagan in the White House symbolized debt.

[TreasonousBastard]

15. I still say...

he should be on the wooden nickel.

[caledesi]

23. ROTFLMAO! nt

[Walt Starr]

7. It won't stop the movement to put his face on the dime

It'll end up there. Count on it.

Reaganism is a rampant religion in this country and will not be stopped until all worship him.

[aquart]

9. She wants the big bills.

Dimes are chintzy. Democrats belong on dimes. Republicans on thousand dollar bills.

Who IS on the thousand dollar bill? Let's start a campaign to replace him with Ronnie.

[amazona]

13. no more thousand dollar bills

The biggest U.S. bill is the hundred. Many years ago, they ceased production of the $500, thousand, and larger bills because they made it too easy for drug lords and money launderers to move the cash around. I once saw a thousand dollar bill - it was on sale at a coin show for $997 because the nuisance of having to report it to the federal government and get it exchanged made it worth less than face value.

P.S. the thousand dollar bill featured Grover Cleveland. I'm not aware that Mr. Cleveland ever achieved anything of note but perhaps others know more what merited this honor.

[FarLeftRage]

14. Grover Cleveland is

on the thousand dollar bill... a Democrat!

It no longer circulates for the exact reasons Amazona had stated.

[kskiska]

16. She said NO to naming the airport after him, too

…but they did anyway.

I doubt she said NO to the aircraft carrier, though, since she christened it.

Perhaps the lady doth protest too much.

[supernova]

20. Well, certain few things

are OK, perhaps the AC was a bit over the top. But I don't begrudge a few things named after him.

This while dime thing is just tacky. And it does smack of wanting to erase liberal icons from our history.

[supernova]

19. Good for Nancy

Reaganiacs get weirder by the minute.

If anybody changes the face of a currency, the American public ought to be able to vote on it.

[Eloriel]

21. Well, at last1

Some viable use for that snooty high-tone taste level of hers!

Eloriel

[caledesi]

22. As Rndo Rhodes said...

The reason that FDR was on the dime was that it was minted for disabled people. FDR had polio and that is why he is on the dime.
No Reagan here. ip.

[mdguss]

24. You Know What:

Why don't they put Reagan on the dollar coin. That might be a way to get people to actually use them (if we used them, and not bills, we'd save millions of dollars).

As for him on the dime--bad, bad idea. FDR was a great president. Anybody who wants to take him off of the dime is wrong.

[mndemocrat_29]

25. I hold out for Truman on the dollar coin.

But I don't think the Republican Congress will follow that idea.

[Zomby Woof]

28. why??

I like having Sacajawea on it. Truman was the father of the neocons, our national security state, and an anti-semitic rube. What an embarrassment.

[maxanne]

26. the dime isn't chi chi enough

for Nancy. Now a silver dollar would be right up her alley.

Or reissuing the 1000 bill. I saw one, once. In fact, when I was a bartender, one of my customers brought it in to show me - and when he left, he put a $1000 bill in my tip jar. (an enlarged photocopy of the front of the bill) It was one of Grover's grandsons.

[zbdent]

27. Wouldn't want to be on the dime? Is this like the statement by W

that he didn't want to run for President? (The idiot-in-thief could have said "NO" if he really didn't want the job).