Newly Found Reagan Journal Reveals the Former President Regretted Becoming Republican

[Midtowner]

Although at the time I felt I could more effectively get my ideas of a collective philosophy accomplished as a Republican more so than a Democrat, I realize now that the Republican Party was indeed the party of purely individual rights, not the Democrats. When I worked as the president of the Screen Actors Guild I understood the need for people to stick together for the greater good to get their goals accomplished. I admired other great presidents of the past such as Franklin Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower who knew that in order for the nation to thrive, we must all thrive. I am also saddened that the Republican party of today thinks I wanted God in the White House and to rule the nation. That is not true at all, after I was nearly assassinated I wanted God more in my own personal life. I acknowledged that I was to be here for a reason and serve him and my nation together, but they always stayed separate in my mind just as in the Constitution. The Republican party today merely just uses God as a means to get votes, and I don’t believe Jesus would want to be used as a marketing tool. I regret my decision to become Republican and if I had to do it all over again I would have remained in the Democratic party and ran on their ticket. They seem to instill the core values I believe in, such as a collective philosophy. I thought for a while the Democrats left me, because we used to agree on so much, it turns out that I did indeed leave them, and I would do anything to take it all back. Now as I sit here as an old man, I can only imagine, “what if…” This new revelation is not being accepted with open arms by the Republican Party. Many are saddened to find out how their former beloved “ultra-conservative” president truly felt in his last years on earth. He also revealed in his journal that he voted for Al Gore in the 2000 Presidential Election. He said, “I just can’t bring myself to vote for that kid, I knew what he was like when I had his dad as my vice president, and I couldn’t allow for a man like that to lead the nation.”

--Ronald Reagan

[cleller]

Sounds good to me. I have to agree with his assessment about the Republicans using religion as a campaign tool. I have severely limited and boxed in the party. I didn't vote for Gore, but feel about the same in regard to Jr.

I doubt this will slow down the new, "lets go after Reagan, too" flavor-of-the-day whiners.

[ouwasp]

Well, Reagan is the reason I registered Republican all those yrs ago. But Carter had his role as well.......sure wasn't gonna be in his party.

[okie52]

--Ronald Reagan

So when did he write this...after he was overcome with alzheimers?

[Lott's Bandana]

To me all this does is validate my feelings that the two Parties are really two sides of the same face.

[TitoMorelli]

Pretty good writing for a man who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's back in 1994. Wonder how many you'll snag with this one?

[rock on sooner]

And, here I thought all he did was sleep in cabinet meetings, wake up long enough to eat
some jelly beans and go back to sleep. Easy to see why this journal didn't come available
until after he passed on. Too bad he didn't speak up in 2000, maybe we wouldn't have
had Dubya for 8 looooonnnnngg years.

[TitoMorelli]

Have you caught your limit yet, MT?

[Midtowner]

Yeah, I'm there.


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[champions77]

--Ronald Reagan

Source?

I would be shocked to see that these were the words of our beloved President. Anyone that followed his Presidency knows that these words contradict everything he stood for.

Liberals turn into conservatives, conservatives don't turn into liberals.


"Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.” -- Winston Churchill

"The problem with socialism is that at some point, you run out of other people's money" --- Margaret Thatcher

[Midtowner]

Source?

I would be shocked to see that these were the words of our beloved President. Anyone that followed his Presidency knows that these words contradict everything he stood for.

Liberals turn into conservatives, conservatives don't turn into liberals.


"Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.” -- Winston Churchill

"The problem with socialism is that at some point, you run out of other people's money" --- Margaret Thatcher

Caught another one...

But as to this:

Liberals turn into conservatives, conservatives don't turn into liberals.

Ariana Huffington was an uberconservative at one point and is now the founder and head of the Huffington Post, a slightly left-of-center news service (just off the top of my head).

[Mississippi Sooner]

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

[TitoMorelli]

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

Great one, MS.

[champions77]

Caught another one...

But as to this:


Ariana Huffington was an uberconservative at one point and is now the founder and head of the Huffington Post, a slightly left-of-center news service (just off the top of my head).

I'll give you that one, but there have not been many. Most people when they get out and "work" and see how hard they work, see how much money they pay in taxes, see how foolish, wasteful and inefficient government is...realize the GOP believes in the individual in solving their own problems and the dems.... believe in the federal government to solve all problems.

J.C. Watts, well known "former" democrat, when asked why he switched to the GOP, he replied "I noticed that the democrats brag on how many folks are on welfare, the Republicans brag on how many people are not on welfare"

[Midtowner]

the GOP believes in the individual in solving their own problems and the dems.... believe in the federal government to solve all problems.

That's total bull****. The GOP brought us NCLB, Medicare drug coverage, two wars we had no business getting into, etc. The GOP is just as bad as the Dems at taxing and spending. The only differences are that the Dems actually try to pay for what they spend with tax increases and the talking points.

[REDREX]

That's total bull****. The GOP brought us NCLB, Medicare drug coverage, two wars we had no business getting into, etc. The GOP is just as bad as the Dems at taxing and spending. The only differences are that the Dems actually try to pay for what they spend with tax increases and the talking points.---Ever think we have a spending problem ?---No way to tax our way out of this mess---Look at how big of a joke the Buffett tax would be

[champions77]

That's total bull****. The GOP brought us NCLB, Medicare drug coverage, two wars we had no business getting into, etc. The GOP is just as bad as the Dems at taxing and spending. The only differences are that the Dems actually try to pay for what they spend with tax increases and the talking points.

Dems pay for what they spend? You are kidding right?

Obama is running a 1.3 Trillion annual deficit......and taxing those rich sob's would account for only an additional 100 billion a year.

You do the math.

[Midtowner]

Dems pay for what they spend? You are kidding right?

Obama is running a 1.3 Trillion annual deficit......and taxing those rich sob's would account for only an additional 100 billion a year.

You do the math.

Which is better? $100BN/year or nothing?

I agree, taxes need to go way up and spending needs to go way down.

Which party will do that?

[TitoMorelli]

Next thing you know, MT will be trying to con us into believing that Jane Fonda's been signed to play Nancy Reagan in a new Hollywood project.

[champions77]

Which is better? $100BN/year or nothing?

I agree, taxes need to go way up and spending needs to go way down.

Which party will do that?

Yes, but the way Obama couches it, everything with the deficit would be wonderful if he could just tax those greedy rich folks, when in reality, it would not hardly make a dent.

Spending is way more of a problem than revenue, way more.

[jk the sooner fan]

midtowner- i think you're the biggest liberal shill on all of the internets

i've rarely seen somebody work so hard like you do - not since LAS.....

GOLF CLAP!!!!!

[SanJoaquinSooner]

authentic journal or not, the pubs abandoned Reagan long ago, and replaced him with some guy named Potter.

[TUSooner]

Next thing you know, MT will be trying to con us into believing that Jane Fonda's been signed to play Nancy Reagan in a new Hollywood project.

Don't underestimate Hollywood!

[Mississippi Sooner]

This really did blow my mind when I saw the headline.

http://news.yahoo.com/jane-fonda-play-nancy-reagan-film-butler-174024478.html

[ictsooner7]

--Ronald Reagan

What so surprising? A rightwinger posting a lie.

[okie52]

That's total bull****. The GOP brought us NCLB, Medicare drug coverage, two wars we had no business getting into, etc. The GOP is just as bad as the Dems at taxing and spending. The only differences are that the Dems actually try to pay for what they spend with tax increases and the talking points.

Really? Which 2 wars?

[champions77]

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started learning very early in life and never stopped.

At 5, began studying under his cousin's tutor.
At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.
At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages.
At 16, entered the College of William and Mary.
At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.
At 23, started his own law practice.
At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.
At 31, wrote the widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British America " and retired from his law practice.
At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.
At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence .
At 33, took three years to revise Virginia ’s legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.
At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.
At 40, served in Congress for two years.
At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.
At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.
At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the American Philosophical Society.
At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican Party.
At 57, was elected the third president of the United States .
At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation's size.
At 61, was elected to a second term as President.
At 65, retired to Monticello .
At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.
At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president.
At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams

Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government. He understood actual history, the nature of God, his laws and the nature of man. That happens to be way more than what most understand today. Jefferson really knew his stuff. A voice from the past to lead us in the future:
John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe ." -- Thomas Jefferson

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." -- Thomas Jefferson

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." -- Thomas Jefferson

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson

"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered


Is there any question what Jefferson would think of today's politicians? That Jefferson would be shocked and ashamed to what we've become as a Nation...would be the understatement of the Century.

Yep, you are right Mr. Jefferson, we screwed it up.

[soonercoop1]

No way in hell did he vote for Gore....

[Bourbon St Sooner]

I like what you say but you ask the wrong question. The correct question is Who would vote for that?

We truly have the gov't we deserve.

[cleller]

What so surprising? A rightwinger posting a lie.

Midtowner is a right winger?

[MR2-Sooner86]

Seeing as how Reagan ran, somewhat, on Goldwater's platform I can see this. Goldwater warned the Republicans in the 1960's to stay away from the Religious Right. They could have a seat at the table like everybody else but they couldn't be allowed to take the table over. He saw what was coming and sadly his warnings fell on deaf ears.

[MR2-Sooner86]

Oh, as for Jane Fonda, I will happily celebrate the day that f*cking c*nt falls over dead. Her neck should've been in a noose the second she stepped off that plane from Vietnam.

[champions77]

Oh, as for Jane Fonda, I will happily celebrate the day that f*cking c*nt falls over dead. Her neck should've been in a noose the second she stepped off that plane from Vietnam.

Yes cavorting with the enemy used to get yourself a "treason" charge, followed by a firing squad. It's amazing how the "left" has a propensity for smoozing with our enemies, whether it be Sean Penn, Jane Fonda, Ed Asner, Michael Moore or even ole Jimmy Carter, who used to be considered as our worst President ever.

[ictsooner7]

Yes cavorting with the enemy used to get yourself a "treason" charge, followed by a firing squad. It's amazing how the "left" has a propensity for smoozing with our enemies, whether it be Sean Penn, Jane Fonda, Ed Asner, Michael Moore or even ole Jimmy Carter, who used to be considered as our worst President ever.

Jimmy Carter? Please explain.

Wasn't it Nixon who went to China?

[champions77]

Jimmy Carter? Please explain.

Wasn't it Nixon who went to China?

Jimmy Carter is friends with Hugo Chavez, the Venezuela socialist dictator. A few years back, Chavez brought in Carter to oversee an election, that seemed tainted and bogus on many counts. Carter declared the election as valid. It was later dicovered that Chavez had donated monies to Carter's non-profit Foundation.

Also Carter has been a critic of our staunch ally Israel, while smoozing with Hamas.

We also lost staunch ally Iran during Carter's reign of error. Now look what we have to deal with over there?

Carter was terrible incompetent, who surrounded himself with his buddies from Georgia, who were less so. Kind of like what we have today.

[SCOUT]

Jimmy Carter is friends with Hugo Chavez, the Venezuela socialist dictator. A few years back, Chavez brought in Carter to oversee an election, that seemed tainted and bogus on many counts. Carter declared the election as valid. It was later dicovered that Chavez had donated monies to Carter's non-profit Foundation.

Also Carter has been a critic of our staunch ally Israel, while smoozing with Hamas.

We also lost staunch ally Iran during Carter's reign of error. Now look what we have to deal with over there?

Carter was terrible incompetent, who surrounded himself with his buddies from Georgia, who were less so. Kind of like what we have today.
Details...

[Chuck Bao]

My grandfather hated Ronald Reagan. Even though he was a poor farmer without a high school education, he was one of the wisest men that I have ever met. I had just graduated from high school and was voting for Reagan in my first experience as a registered voter, so I asked my grandfather why he wouldn't vote for Reagan.

My grandfather said that Reagan was previously the president of the Screen Actors Guild and had told the Teamsters Union that he was one of them (I haven't checked if that is actually true). Anyway, my grandfather hated unions and refused to vote for any politician who would cater to their vote.

I've thought about this a lot over the years. Maybe Reagan wasn't the free market advocate as some think that he was. Maybe he was just a very good politician.

[ictsooner7]

Jimmy Carter is friends with Hugo Chavez, the Venezuela socialist dictator. A few years back, Chavez brought in Carter to oversee an election, that seemed tainted and bogus on many counts. Carter declared the election as valid. It was later dicovered that Chavez had donated monies to Carter's non-profit Foundation.

Also Carter has been a critic of our staunch ally Israel, while smoozing with Hamas.

We also lost staunch ally Iran during Carter's reign of error. Now look what we have to deal with over there?

Carter was terrible incompetent, who surrounded himself with his buddies from Georgia, who were less so. Kind of like what we have today.

Election fraud in Venezuela is being claimed by the losers and rightwing talking heads with the WSJ leading the way. It "seemed tainted and bogus on many counts" show eveidence besides rightwing talking points.

We lost a staunch ally in Iran during carters eign of error? It would have happened anyway, do you really think ford could have done something? If carter was incompetent so was bush.


My poly sci professor told a story about carter, he worked for dan Glickman congressmen a hardcore loyal dem who was finally meeting with carter, seems like it was a long time after he took office. During the meeting carters secretary steps in and says someone was waiting to see him and carter holds up two fingers meaning two more minutes, the whole meeting took 10-15 minutes. The prof says here you have a guy how is voting for you in lockstep and you give him 2 more minutes? He just didn’t know how to work people.

[champions77]

My grandfather hated Ronald Reagan. Even though he was a poor farmer without a high school education, he was one of the wisest men that I have ever met. I had just graduated from high school and was voting for Reagan in my first experience as a registered voter, so I asked my grandfather why he wouldn't vote for Reagan.

My grandfather said that Reagan was previously the president of the Screen Actors Guild and had told the Teamsters Union that he was one of them (I haven't checked if that is actually true). Anyway, my grandfather hated unions and refused to vote for any politician who would cater to their vote.

I've thought about this a lot over the years. Maybe Reagan wasn't the free market advocate as some think that he was. Maybe he was just a very good politician.

Then your grandfather should have just loved RR when he broke the Air Traffic Controllers Union when they went on strike during his administration. He considered their strike as a threat to the Nations's commerce and was not going to stand for it, fired every one of them. Unions hated him for it.

Whatever Ronald Reagan was when he was in his 30's and what he was the last 50 years of his life are two differently things.

[Curly Bill]

My grandfather was a Yellowdog Democrat, but if you listened to him talk he believed in Republican ideas. Never made any sense to me why he voted Democrat, seemed totally stupid to me actually, but that's all he knew.

[ictsooner7]

Whatever Ronald Reagan was when he was in his 30's and what he was the last 50 years of his life are two differently things.

Does that go for clinton too? And clinton was in his 20's.

http://imthatold.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/etch-a-sketch-magic-screen.jpg

[champions77]

My grandfather was a Yellowdog Democrat, but if you listened to him talk he believed in Republican ideas. Never made any sense to me why he voted Democrat, seemed totally stupid to me actually, but that's all he knew.

My father-in-law was the same way. You sit down with him, go over issue by issue, we agree on 90% of the issues, and then he goes and votes for the dems. As maddening as it is, I believe there are a lot of folks that vote that way.

[soonercruiser]

Caught another one...

But as to this:

Ariana Huffington was an uberconservative at one point and is now the founder and head of the Huffington Post, a slightly left-of-center news service (just off the top of my head).

The boat is sinking, fast!

[SoonerProphet]

I have a feeling that many of those who are such staunch critics of Carter have never heard of the Helsinki Accords, Charter 77, or Solidarity.

[champions77]

I have a feeling that many of those who are such staunch critics of Carter have never heard of the Helsinki Accords, Charter 77, or Solidarity.

I have a feeling that those that defend Jimmy Carter do not know that the interest rate (20%), unemployment rate (6%) or the inflation rate of 11.3% were the highest since the Civil War, and ultimately led to him being trounced in the 1980 election by Ronald Reagan.

Since that time, Carter has paraded around the world defending US enemies like Hamas and Hugo Chavez and trying desperately to re-invent his failed Presidency.

I am confident he is really happy to have BHO as President, thus escaping the "worst President" label that has dogged him for the last 30 + years.

[SoonerProphet]

I have a feeling that those that defend Jimmy Carter do not know that the interest rate (20%), unemployment rate (6%) or the inflation rate of 11.3% were the highest since the Civil War, and ultimately led to him being trounced in the 1980 election by Ronald Reagan.

Since that time, Carter has paraded around the world defending US enemies like Hamas and Hugo Chavez

pretty hard to lay the blame for inflationary problems at the feet of one prez. how anyone can be blamed for an economic trend that started a decade earlier is beyong me. as we all know, a politician wouldn't exploit the relative economic ignorances of the masses for political gain, it is unheard of.

please enlighten me on his parades with chavez and hamas, is it because he oversaw elections in these places?

[LiveLaughLove]

I have a feeling that those that defend Jimmy Carter do not know that the interest rate (20%), unemployment rate (6%) or the inflation rate of 11.3% were the highest since the Civil War, and ultimately led to him being trounced in the 1980 election by Ronald Reagan.

Since that time, Carter has paraded around the world defending US enemies like Hamas and Hugo Chavez and trying desperately to re-invent his failed Presidency.

I am confident he is really happy to have BHO as President, thus escaping the "worst President" label that has dogged him for the last 30 + years.

Not to mention communism grew around the world at an alarming rate under Jimmah. I'll say it, he was the worst President, including Obama so far. But it's close.

As for the OP, I knew the title itself was full of BS. It's a liberal wet dream that Ron Jr has been pushing ever since Dad couldn't speak for himself, but if you have read any of Reagan's actual papers, you know he was very staunch in his conservative beliefs. They were unwaivering. God bless him!

[champions77]

pretty hard to lay the blame for inflationary problems at the feet of one prez. how anyone can be blamed for an economic trend that started a decade earlier is beyong me. as we all know, a politician wouldn't exploit the relative economic ignorances of the masses for political gain, it is unheard of.

please enlighten me on his parades with chavez and hamas, is it because he oversaw elections in these places?

Well apparently the American people held him accountable for what happened on his watch. As to Hamas, you can google up all sorts of info about his relationship with Hamas and conversely, his poor relationship with Israel.

As to Chavez, many have questioned the legitimacy of his elections. I have a customer that lives down in Venezuela, and he said that those elections are a farce, at least to anyone not named Chavez or Carter.

[SoonerProphet]

Well apparently the American people held him accountable for what happened on his watch. As to Hamas, you can google up all sorts of info about his relationship with Hamas and conversely, his poor relationship with Israel.

As to Chavez, many have questioned the legitimacy of his elections. I have a customer that lives down in Venezuela, and he said that those elections are a farce, at least to anyone not named Chavez or Carter.

yes they did. but the partisans fail to look at bigger the picture(Vietnam War, the oil crisis, monetary supply, gold standard, etc). these are real issues that impacted the carter years in terms of economic effects on the economy. don't give me any bs about gov't regulation either. i would contest that neither carter or reagan had that much impact on the econmies during their terms. see paul volcker.

wtf, have i missed him dawning a keffiyah and slinging stones at merkavas in gaza. so he has met with a legitimate political representative of palestinians, what is the big deal. many question the legitimacy of the 2000's elections here, again big deal.

i realize it makes good straw men in these debates, but when the rubber hits the road a much more neutral picture begins to appear.

[champions77]

yes they did. but the partisans fail to look at bigger the picture(Vietnam War, the oil crisis, monetary supply, gold standard, etc). these are real issues that impacted the carter years in terms of economic effects on the economy. don't give me any bs about gov't regulation either. i would contest that neither carter or reagan had that much impact on the econmies during their terms. see paul volcker.

wtf, have i missed him dawning a keffiyah and slinging stones at merkavas in gaza. so he has met with a legitimate political representative of palestinians, what is the big deal. many question the legitimacy of the 2000's elections here, again big deal.

i realize it makes good straw men in these debates, but when the rubber hits the road a much more neutral picture begins to appear.

Poor ole Jimmy. He would have been a great Prez if it weren't for his unfortunate circumstances. He was powerless to change a thing.

I wonder if you would give "W" the same pass? Afterall, he is not the one that came up with the "Community Reinvestment Act" which allowed low income folks, who would normally not qualify for a home loan, to purchase a home. Brilliant idea. Allowing folks that have no business buying a home, to buy a home. Thus the seeds of the mortgage crisis meltdown that brought this country to it's knees towards the end of the George W. Bush administration. But in that case, it was all "W"'s fault, right? By the way, the President when this sorry piece of legislation was passed? Jimmy Carter.

[SoonerProphet]

no reasons to put words in my mouth. not giving anyone a pass, just pointing out the presidency of jimmy carter, or reagan for that matter, is not as simple to categorize. plenty of policy decisions that had a postive impact on the world, and i think the same could be said for most presidents