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They are lying if they say they were not envious of his popularity. But I would suspect only liberal politicians were envious. The rank and file probably do not envy Reagan.

Liberals usually feel that conservatives are unintelligent.

This comes from Europe of the 18th century (I need to check the precise time to be sure)

There was a period in time when conservative landowners and wealthy were reacting to the newly formed inteligencia. Previously, only the very rich were educated. At this point in time, more and more people were allowed an education.

When this newly educated class began to surface, the wealthy and the landowners kind of revolted. It was considered crass to become too educated. The "truly wealthy" wanted to seperate themselves from these newly educated who were proposing very radical ideas about society. So in the social circles throughout Europe, it was considered gauche to be included in those "liberal" conversations.

Now we know that a person can be intelligent whether they are conservative or liberal.

What causes the dissonance are the VALUES by which people make their decisions.

Where a Liberal might find the value of fairness/reciprocity of a situation guides them, a conservative might feel that loyalty or respect for authority or sanctity is the value which guides them on the very same situation. Hence, the two sides believe the other side is idiotic for its stance.

What in the world makes you think we are jealous of a man we never agreed with anyway? Trust me - we are not jealous of Reagan.. I think *somebody* is a little jealous that we have hugely popular and well-received president RIGHT NOW... who happens to be a liberal and represents a flat-out rejection of Reagan-era policy. So you can keep Reagan, we'll take Obama anyday.

Reagan did manage to use good communication skills in order to enhance his personal popularity and win elections. He was however a terrible president. Many of the economic and foreign relations problems that we have now can be attributed to his very bad policies.

You mean the old guy that slept thru his eight year presidency while the First Lady and VP ran the country? Trust me, no one is evious.

Maybe because Regan was known as the "Great Communicator"...

He had a wonderful command of the English Language and he could spell....

Probably beause we are just starting to see the results of being completely duped into voting for him.

He claimed his policies would result in peace and prosperity for Americans. When he said "Americans", we didn't realize he was excluding 99% of the country.

I don't know a single one who envies Reagan. Most found him charming but stupid, and are baffled why Republicans loved him so.

The only thing I have ever "envied" about RR is the love story he seemed to share with his wife.

librials envy Reagan? first I heard of it.

We do not, at least those that were adults at that time. How old were you when Jimmy Carter was president?