Almost one year ago this week Americans surveyed in a Gallup poll ranked Ronald Reagan the “greatest” United States President . Today a new poll released by Young America’s Foundation/TPC reveals that our nation’s university professors dont even rank the Gipper in the top 10. “In a recent survey, 60 percent of college professors did not even rank President Reagan among the top ten Presidents. Begrudgingly, these educators admitted that Reagan’s Presidency was successful, but they rate him far lower than most Americans. ” [..] “In the YAF poll, not one of the 284 professors surveyed listed him as their top choice—60 percent didn’t even list President Reagan in their top ten. They did, however, rate him as marginally more successful than President Obama. 61 percent of college professors rated President Reagan’s Presidency as ‘mostly a success,’ while 59 percent gave Obama the same mark. When asked to grade the last five Presidents, President Reagan received a C+ on average. President George W. Bush received a D, underscoring just how much the Left still despises our 43 rd President. As a whole, 57 percent of professors identified themselves as ‘liberal’ and 16 percent as ‘conservative.’” The Young America’s Foundation commissioned the survey in honor of Reagan’s 101st birthday, which is today. In reaction to the poll, Reagan Ranch Board of Governors Chairman Frank Donatelli said, “The leftist tilt of college professors is well known. However, the fact that President Reagan is now viewed as ‘successful’ by 61% of this group is testament to the lasting accomplishments of our 40 th President. The exceptional work of Young America’s Foundation in celebrating the 100 th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth has been important in educating all Americans about President Reagan’s accomplishments.” The Young America’s Foundation is a principal outreach organization to the Conservative Movement, committed to ensuring that increasing numbers of young Americans understand and are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values. The organization owns and preserves the Reagan Ranch.
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Poll finds that most college professors don’t rank Reagan among their top 10 presidents
AFP commemorates the 101st anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth with a Reagan 101 tutorial contrasting the polar opposite visions of Reagan and Obama:
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Ronald Reagan: 101
-By Warner Todd Huston One of the things that many Romney supporters are using to explain away their decision to ignore Romney’s many flip flops is Ronald Reagan’s one-time support for abortion and his signing of the Therapeutic Abortion Act as governor of California in 1967. But this comparison is a non sequitur. Reagan’s support of
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Dear Romneyites, Reagan Was NOT an Abortion Supporter!
That would be the new Van Halen tour and album. See Los Angeles Times , ” When David Lee Roth talks, it’s ‘A Different Kind of Truth’ .” It’s an old joke, but when David Lee Roth delivers the punch line it sounds more like a mission statement: “How many lead singers does it take to put in a lightbulb? One. You hold the bulb and wait for the world to revolve around you.” Missing from the joke is how the singer is left standing there in the dark waiting for his proper wattage. On Feb. 7, Interscope Records will release “A Different Kind of Truth” and, as the world turns, it will represent the first Van Halen studio album featuring Roth as lead singer since “1984″ — which was released 28 years ago this month, right before Ronald Reagan announced plans to run for a second term. Time flies — or does it drag? Earlier this month, on a crisp, sunny morning in Pasadena, Roth, now 57, welcomed a visitor to his 20-room, Italianate mansion to talk about Van Halen past, present and future. Roth actually rejoined the band “five summers and a million years ago” for the 2007-08 reunion tour, but it’s taken this long for the still-volatile collective to finish an album that satisfies all of their agendas. The amazing thing is that they finished at all; like the Beach Boys, Eagles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guns N’ Roses and Fleetwood Mac, Van Halen is part of the Southern California history of world-class soap operas disguised as platinum-selling bands. Van Halen’s brawny brand of music has sold more than 80 million albums, but offstage the group has been a fragile alliance that has fallen apart again and again because of creative clashes, drug torpor, grudges and, more recently, health issues. Continue reading . Van Halen will by playing live
Everyone knows former Vice President Al Gore once took a lot of credit for the creation of the Internet. And everyone laughs at it. At a campaign event in South Carolina on Wednesday, Mitt Romney tied Gore’s claim that he helped create the Internet to Newt Gingrich . Here’s what he said via the Spartanburg Herald Journal: “The speaker just the other day at the debate was talking about how he created millions of jobs when he was working with the Reagan administration,” Romney said. “Well, he’d been in Congress two years when Ronald Reagan came to office. That would be like saying 435 congressmen were all responsible for those jobs. Government doesn’t create jobs. It’s the private sector that creates jobs. Congressmen taking responsibility or taking credit for helping create jobs is like Al Gore taking credit for the Internet.” And here’s Gingrich’s quote about job creation from Monday’s debate Romney was referring to: “As a young member of Congress, I worked with President Ronald Reagan. We passed an economic growth package. We created 16 million jobs. The American people within a framework that Reagan had established created 16 million jobs. As speaker I came back — working with President Bill Clinton , we passed a very Reagan-like program, less regulation, lower taxes. Unemployment dropped to 4.2 percent. We created 11 million jobs. Now, those are real numbers that people can verify out in the open.” h/t Politico
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Romney says Newt taking job-creation credit is like Al Gore’s Internet claim
At Los Angeles Times , ” Mitt Romney nabs 8-vote win in Iowa .” And from the New York Times , ” Romney Wins Iowa Caucus by 8 Votes “: DES MOINES — Mitt Romney’s quest to swiftly lock down the Republican presidential nomination with a commanding finish in the Iowa caucuses was undercut on Tuesday night by the surging candidacy of Rick Santorum, who fought him to a draw on a shoestring budget by winning over conservatives who remain skeptical of Mr. Romney. In the first Republican contest of the season, the two candidates were separated much of the night by only a sliver of votes, with Mr. Romney being declared the winner by eight ballots early Wednesday morning. But the outcome offered Mr. Santorum a chance to emerge as the alternative to Mr. Romney as the race moves to New Hampshire and South Carolina without Gov. Rick Perry, who announced that he was returning to Texas to assess his candidacy. “Being here in Iowa has made me a better candidate,” Mr. Santorum said, arriving at a caucus in Clive, where he urged Republicans to vote their conscience. “Don’t sell America short. Don’t put someone out there from Iowa who isn’t capable of doing what America needs done.” The Iowa caucuses did not deliver a clean answer to what type of candidate Republicans intend to rally behind to try to defeat President Obama and win back the White House. With 99 percent of the vote counted, Mr. Santorum and Mr. Romney, whose views represent the polar sides of the party, each had 24.6 percent. “Onto New Hampshire, let’s get that job done!” Mr. Romney told supporters at a late-night rally, when he was five votes shy of Mr. Santorum. “Come visit us there, we’ve got some work ahead.” The last time the Iowa caucuses produced such a close outcome was in 1980, when George Bush beat Ronald Reagan by two percentage points. Right. See previously, ” GOP 2012 May Be Closest in History of Iowa Caucuses .”
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Mitt Romney Wins Iowa Caucuses
Public grief? Glenn Greenwald was whining about it the other day with reference to the week-long public ceremonies for Ronald Reagan in 2004. The popular outpouring for Reagan might as well have been cooked up in some North Korean propaganda office. So, what to make of this video, at Telegraph UK: Local television pictures appear to show North Korean officials reacting with unrestrained grief to the news of Kim Jong Il’s death. It’s not just the state commissars who’re publicly grieving for Dear Leader. See Blazing Cat Fur, ” Oh those poor people. Forced to feign love for the little prick .” Hey, maybe Glenn Greenwald should find a gay lover in Pyongyang! Loosen the Communist Party’s control of information and then those 3,000 word blog posts might find an audience!
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‘Unrestrained Public Grief’ at Death of Kim Jong Il
