ReRon's "Legacy" Deflated; Teabaggers "Runnin'-On-Empty"

[Mr. Shaman]

"It’s interesting – Reagan’s reputation has risen with both the public and historians the further we get in memory from his actual presidency – which I think is a huge tribute to both the myth-making machinery created by the likes of Grover Norquist and the mainstream media’s willingness to embrace the myth. For example, in March 1990, some 13 months after Reagan left the Oval Office, Reagan’s popularity (59 percent) had dipped below that of Jimmy Carter (62 percent). Two major surveys of historians in the mid-1990s rated Reagan’s presidency as below average, not one of the all-time greats."